October 7, 2010

I have been doing better at working on my novel. I have been using my laptop in order to write, but right now I am a little bit behind due to the emotional upset that is currently going on in my life: My Beloved and his son will be moving out at the end of the month.

Oh well, I must try to push on regardless on how much it hurts.

I am 6 days behind with writing, as I am suppose to write everyday, and even though I am 6 days behind, I am still to just plow through. I have a contact with myself. This is what it says:

I will make the necessary changes in my life to accommodate this goal, and I will ask family, friends, and my fellow writers for help when I need it.

I will organize my time well so I can do this, and I will set adise all non-essentail tasks so I have time to achieve my goals.

I will work on my book 5 days a week (if I miss a day, I’ll just keep going). I will complete 50,000 words/pages and get to the end. No matter what happens during these 30 days, I will just keep writing.

“ I don’t have the time” is not a good enough excuse for the next 30 days.

I promise myself that I will celebrate when the 30 days are up, even if I only met 75 percent of this goal. I will tell my family and friends to get ready for this celebration in Week 3, to further motivate myself.

This book is important to me. My future readers are waiting to read it and I owe it to them to finish it. What I have to say IS important.

I am trying to follow that contact. Last month my writing goal was only 20,000 words, but I only wrote 11,000 as I was focusing on other aspects of my novels (The Maiden of Anwen’s song and my Nano 2010 “Sword in the Window), such as plots, outlines, character bios, writing tag words (for Nano 2010, since I cannot write any of it yet),etc to help me write a better, more complete novel.

I have a couple writing buddies that I have been in touch with to help me with this goal.

:o)