You know, 2018 is the year of setting up my “routine.” It really is. Because my “routine” is what’s going to get me the words written that I want to write. It’s the BREAK in that routine that hurts me production-wise.
How do I fix that?
I really do best when focusing on one thing at a time. That’s always been where I’ve done the most work, and the best work. Hence clearing out other projects over the past year+. I’m not there yet…I still have TG1T stuff…but I can put that off for a while. I really can.
CAN I GET TO THE PLACE WHERE I ACTUALLY WRITE EVERY DAY?
That seems to be a recurring theme in the writers that I admire and look up to. They all say they write every day.
I want to do that. I want that to be my routine. That no matter what my schedule is like, no matter when I wake up or when I go to bed…that I write every day, and I never lose momentum. Because it’s lost momentum that I’m feeling right now. That’s my frustration from this past week…that I lost my momentum, and I’ve been struggling to get it back this whole week.
I found SOME today. Not as much as I wanted to, but some. And I’m sitting here in bed right now, tonight, thinking about how I’m going to probably fail tomorrow to get new chapters to my beta readers. I’d have to write around 6,000 words tomorrow to get them what I wanted to get to them. 10,000 words. It’s just not doable in a single day. Not most of the time, any way. And that feeling sucks.
For now…I’m going to let it go. I’m going to set my sights on a smaller goal, and I’ll just deliver to my readers what I have. Tell them the truth: this was a tough week. I lost momentum. I’m working on getting it back.
These are the trials I must go through to figure out how to write full-time. It’s not coming easy to me. That’s frustrating…but I won’t let it stop me from getting where I want to go. I went through this process once with video editing, and I conquered that. I can conquer this, too, and find my success.
Here’s to success tomorrow. However modest or grand it may be.
Night.