So because being an assistant manager in retail at Christmas isn’t stressful, or busy enough (endSarcasm); I’ve decided to take on a few projects in the coming weeks. Some of these are small like posting to this blog in one form or another. Some are huge, like edit my novel. Some will be trying, two puppies? Whaat?! And some will be downright impossible (Make sales at work while in a mall renovation? I’ll do my damned best!)
It all comes down to one thing. Routine. Obviously Christmas isn’t the best of times to start this but ah what the hell? Why not? Gotta start some time, right? Of course!
So the list of things I want to accomplish in the next two months are as follows:
Complete Edit of my Novel: Jefferson and the Magician’s Curse
Write in my blog once a day (30 minute limit)
Write 1000 words every second day, passing a story back and forth with a friend.
Beat my pile of unplayed PS3 games and Pokemon. I can do it.
Get not one, but two puppies.
Weed Back garden before dogs get here and convert to raised veggie patch.
ePublish my Circle of Vengeance story.
Insulate my attic.
Read Art of War, The Prince, The Hagakure, The Prophet and Tao-Te-Ching. Possibly the Book of Five Rings too.
Work on my portable body heat powered battery.
I’m sure there’s more but at the moment that may very well be more than enough. Anyway, 30 minutes is up (Not my best words/minute record) and I will see you tomorrow, or you’ll see my words. Or something. Ish.
Doom.
I blog every day–some short, some long; it usually takes me about 25 minutes to write 300-600 words. I say this to encourage you–everyone has to start somewhere–and you did. Go for it!
I write or edit everyday, although by edit sometimes that’ll be just rereading my current story to ensure it is progressing. The blog posts tend to be the thing I do when I don’t write creatively to fill the gap!
Ray Bradbury is my writing hero, his passion for writing in “zen in the art of writing” reminds me of myself or at least what I hope to be like in another 20 years!
Luck with your list. I’m doing NaNoWriMo (50,000 in 30 days), posting my blog daily, writing queries for essays and a children’s picture book, trying to walk 5 miles every morning as I used to do up last year’s meniscus repair surgery,…. Still reading 1 book a week and keeping my journal. Good luck on th epub. I did that with my Journaling ebook, which is not selling and therefore going on the Amazon’s promo discounted list December 2. Fingers crossed.
P.S. Thanks for stopping by my Blog.
No need to thank me! I’m just reaching out in hopes I can be that random stranger that gives struggling writers hope as I push through and let them know that people do care!
I see you are apparently busy (much busier than me) and that is incredible. Your devotion to the craft will most certainly pay off, even though it might be your first book. Have you tried taking it to a publishing house instead? I’ve only tried to publish one thing (back before I had a computer) and when they sent it back I lost it in a small water tank induced flood which made it into a single paper brick! It was hard to get back on the writing horse again after that!
Hello, and thanks for following my blog. Possibly, you chose to because of my post explaining what in my life I’m pitting NaNoWriMo up against. When I was considering how I could manage everything, I made the same conclusion you did: “It all comes down to one thing. Routine.”
Good luck with your routines this month.
Routine is key, although everything from exhaustion to social commitments can ruin it, if you’re not careful. I noticed you were behind on your NaNoWriMo count and reached out… I love writing because of the ability to create from the familiar such fantastic worlds and just weave tales of larger than life characters and far away places. So I try and help others where I can!
Also if you want to inflate your word count, add a new character, weave their struggle into the already existing conflict, make them loved and then kill them and show how the main character deals with that conflict. That’s my favourite filler! (Which once my book comes out, you’ll all understand so much more :P)