Squeezing Out Writing Time

When I started this blog, my intention was to post every single day. What a ridiculous guy I am! Then, when life got in the way, I thought I'd write every weekday. Now I find myself shamefully revising my goal once again. Three days into the week and I'm just now making my ripple in this ocean of the World Wide Web. I once read that vocalizing your goals or, in this case, writing them down helps you achieve them, so I'm putting that theory to the test. Going forward, you can expect me to post here . . . as often as time permits. How's that for an achievable goal?

Here's the thing about my life, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this regard, but it is so insanely busy! I work a 12 hour night shift, followed by coaching little league, daddy-duty, and church time, and I still have to balance three kids' schedules which include (among other things) baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, gymnastics, math tutoring, reading tutoring, piano lessons, homework...the list is never ending. I need a nap just thinking about it. I try to make time to write during my lunch break, after cramming down a few hollow calories, but on a good day, that leaves me with twenty minutes. That's not a lot of writing time, but it's enough to make progress. Recently I've been using that writing time to revise my new novel, which comes out on October 13th, so with a deadline pressing, the kids, the dog, and the blog are all feeling the pangs of neglect. Not to fear, though. I'm almost done with my revision, and then I'll be back, blogging my wicked little heart out.

At least until another project gets in the way.