Slowed Right Down!
Good afternoon, Readers! 
Image by Ralph from Pixabay Well, things have been stalled over at mine for the last fortnight. I’m missing deadlines all over the place.
Granted, it is because I was very ill for a week there, but I’m still feeling guilty. Let’s catch you up on all that I’ve failed at.
First, I will not make my self-imposed deadline for the final book of The Three Worlds War series I’ve been writing. I’m more than just a week behind, as I was before I got ill. But I started to feel fatigue and burnout about a week before I got ill, so I didn’t do any writing then. The illness struck and for the next week, I continued to do nothing. I started feeling better on the Tuesday following, roughly four days after I got hit with the virus like a truck, but neglected to do any writing then, either. That takes us up until today, in which I’m writing this blog post (and will be writing others as I play catch-up for my Ko-Fi subscribers), and working on stuff for one of my other jobs, so there will be no writing today, either. Depending on how I go with the other job, I might not get to writing anything at all this week at all.
Which means, with just under half the estimated word count left to go, I have missed my deadline by a long, long, long shot.
This is the first deadline of this kind that I’ve missed. I’m disappointed in myself and am trying to give myself some grace. Working 40 hours a week at one job, 4 hours a week at another, and with another job that intermittently takes up my time, finding the room in my schedule to write is a struggle. Not that it’s any kind of excuse, but I’m using it, damn it.
On the bright side, I will have a book (book, serial, same thing) coming out this year. And scheduled for after that is the release of The Lioness of Shara Mountain (more on that when I know more), so it’s not like I’m not producing anything at all in the next couple of years.
I know I’ve missed putting something out there for you to read. I had a book a year at one point, and that was a pace that suited me at the time. I’ve gotten slower as I’ve aged… and taken on more and more. One day, hopefully soon, I can begin to earn enough from one of my other endeavours that I can start to claw back some time for writing.
I really miss being able to sit for a three hour block and just write. I miss knocking out 2000-5000 words a day like it was my job (I mean, it is one of my jobs, but let’s ignore that for now).
Though I’ve slowed, I have no intention of stopping. Thanks for being around while I stumble through all of my responsibilities! It’ll pay off… soon, I hope!
Right, I have to get back to work.
Ciao!
Image by Ralph from Pixabay Well, things have been stalled over at mine for the last fortnight. I’m missing deadlines all over the place.Granted, it is because I was very ill for a week there, but I’m still feeling guilty. Let’s catch you up on all that I’ve failed at.
First, I will not make my self-imposed deadline for the final book of The Three Worlds War series I’ve been writing. I’m more than just a week behind, as I was before I got ill. But I started to feel fatigue and burnout about a week before I got ill, so I didn’t do any writing then. The illness struck and for the next week, I continued to do nothing. I started feeling better on the Tuesday following, roughly four days after I got hit with the virus like a truck, but neglected to do any writing then, either. That takes us up until today, in which I’m writing this blog post (and will be writing others as I play catch-up for my Ko-Fi subscribers), and working on stuff for one of my other jobs, so there will be no writing today, either. Depending on how I go with the other job, I might not get to writing anything at all this week at all.
Which means, with just under half the estimated word count left to go, I have missed my deadline by a long, long, long shot.
This is the first deadline of this kind that I’ve missed. I’m disappointed in myself and am trying to give myself some grace. Working 40 hours a week at one job, 4 hours a week at another, and with another job that intermittently takes up my time, finding the room in my schedule to write is a struggle. Not that it’s any kind of excuse, but I’m using it, damn it.
On the bright side, I will have a book (book, serial, same thing) coming out this year. And scheduled for after that is the release of The Lioness of Shara Mountain (more on that when I know more), so it’s not like I’m not producing anything at all in the next couple of years.
I know I’ve missed putting something out there for you to read. I had a book a year at one point, and that was a pace that suited me at the time. I’ve gotten slower as I’ve aged… and taken on more and more. One day, hopefully soon, I can begin to earn enough from one of my other endeavours that I can start to claw back some time for writing.
I really miss being able to sit for a three hour block and just write. I miss knocking out 2000-5000 words a day like it was my job (I mean, it is one of my jobs, but let’s ignore that for now).
Though I’ve slowed, I have no intention of stopping. Thanks for being around while I stumble through all of my responsibilities! It’ll pay off… soon, I hope!
Right, I have to get back to work.
Ciao!
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