October

So.

October started out well. I’d worked up a production schedule, rededicated myself to my craft, made great plans for the last few months of the year, had it all together… and then things started to go wrong. My cat grew ill, and eventually passed away. Between vet visits, concern, mourning, and other arrangements, I didn’t get much work done.

Understandable, yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that it threw my production schedule into disarray.

These things happen. Disasters happen. Tragedy happens. No plan survives contact with the enemy, and sometimes that enemy is just life. So we adapt.

October might have been a bust, but life goes on. The book I was going to start on this month is going to be my NaNoWriMo project for next month; I’ll start from scratch. Every release slated for next year gets shuffled down a month.

We adapt. It’s important to build in a little wiggle-room into our long-term planning for the things we cannot foresee or account for.

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