Schedules and Distractions

Posted by tmycann on Nov 5th, 2012 in indie, writing | 0 comments

I hope there’s truth to this saying for me once again this month, as my schedule got blown up this weekend. As you will have noticed, I didn’t even post here yesterday, per my normal schedule/plan.

My blog tour for Dementional kicked off this morning with a Guest Post on Gwen Perkins’ site. I’m writing the last two posts for that tour tonight–even though that won’t advance my novel word count.

I managed to stay on top of my school work last week again, but writing while working and with school obligations is going to continue to be a challenge. Last week, I was able to take my 30-minute lunch breaks to churn out a few hundred words, so I was able to go over 1,000 for those days. I had expected to do even better over the weekend, so I could get ahead of my NaNo timeline.

Alas, it wasn’t meant to be: Between complete exhaustion, puppy class, and grabbing the last chance to go to dinner with a friend before he moves out of state this week, all of a sudden the 7 hours I had scheduled for writing petered down to 2. So my weekend netted me 1,100 words.

I’m glad to be getting to a point in the story where I know where the plot needs to go, and I’m glad the end of the month has a long work break, but for now, writing goals were a fail for last week. I’m not starting off well this week either, but… tomorrow is always another day.

🙂

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