Day 38

Argh can't believe it's already Wednesday and I've achieved so little this week! I have really been having a lazy one ;) I mean, it's 9:40am and I haven't even started work yet. I've been procrastinating! I have a new job with 5 articles to write that I haven't started AND I want to get stuck into my own writing. I promised myself I'd start every day off with my own work for two hours and then do other stuff. Hmm... and I really need to get the house cleaner (although next week I will be doing major house cleaning due to my daughter's party the following weekend). Of course, my foot should be 100% by next week! (Well maybe not the slow to heal toe... but that's not really affecting me unless I move it too far).

So, I will write what I really NEED to accomplish today and go from there:
1. 2000 words of my new book.
2. 1 article for client
3. Tidy floor quickly and sort laundry (shouldn't stress my foot too much).

There...that's not much, is it? I should be able to do that!

WOW...so I just managed to waste one hour... and I'm not sure what I was doing in that time... GEEZ it's amazing how much time I can waste just checking emails and stuff. Now it's time for me to go riding and I haven't even STARTED my work yet! This puts me a couple of hours behind already. This isn't shaping up to be a good week AT ALL.

So, I'll ride my bike, come back and do my 2000 words then probably have lunch before writing the article (I need to do the 5 articles over a month so it's no hurry, but I should get the first done this week...) After that's finished I'll do some brief housework, and then I'll try and get back to more writing. I will also try and draw up a full weekly schedule (with a bit of flexibility thrown in, cause I need it!) This will include projects that I want to complete or get started, so at least I am making a bit of headway (including my writing course and learning German. I also have some PD related stuff I want to get stuck into).

Hmm what did I accomplish? Well I rode my bike ;) As for my book, I can't say I did NOTHING as I did write some more notes, and fleshed out my ideas a bit. I got to a point where I was really happy with what I had planned! I do want to break it down a bit into scenes and see if I can write scene by scene. When I was doing that for a client, I found it quite easy because I knew exactly what I had to write (well I had to flesh out a single sentence or two into a full scene but I knew what had to happen). Also, the first book I wrote I did that way... I would jot down the scenes freehand, just a paragraph, and then sit and write them. So, maybe for me this is a good writing method?? Sometimes I'm not sure how much planning to do and I overanalyse everything. Some authors are meticulous planners and others are "organic" and just write what comes to them! Maybe I am somewhere in between? Most of my books I've had a rough idea of where I was going (even if it was just a chapter or two ahead lol). So, I will try and do a scene by scene plan and see how I go from there. I don't want to spoil it at all, but I think if I know WHAT I have to write it will come a bit easier.

Anyway, time for me to do a bit of reading, feed some froggies and then have an early night!