Working through the weekend!
It’s been a while since I’ve worked straight through a weekend. Is it weird that it’s always a little bit…thrilling. Like, it feels kinda hard core, and sh*t’s getting done, so it’s a little…cool?
I was able to pretty easily get my work done today. It did take me all day, right up to 5pm, but I did it. Next week, I have a feeling, is going to be a bit rough. But, it’s also the end of this project I’m working on, beyond making some tweaks and fixing some notes. So, hopefully that momentum carries me where I need to go.
Momentum.
I need to find that next week with my rewrite. I don’t want to run aground with this phase of the rewrite process, where I’m actually writing in the new scenes that need to be written, and then going through and rewrite the sections of scenes that need fixing. I don’t want that process to take forever.
I want to find a rhythm. I want to get a sense of how much I can do of that activity in an hour. How much can I get through?
So, how do I do that? I make sure I put in my time next week, productive time, even though I’m tired…and I track it. That’s the solution. It’s simple. Hard to maintain, but simple.
How about this:
I will find a rhythm next week with this rewrite. <— that’s an affirmation. Here’s some visualization: I can picture myself closing my iPad on Friday of next week having had a breakthrough on finding the writing zone during the week, having made a sizable dent in this phase of the rewrite, and knowing a sense of how long the rest of the rewrite is going to take. I’m sitting over in the far side room of the Netflix building, it’s dark outside and I’m exhausted…but I’m feeling accomplished. Proud. Determined to finish this damn book. And ready to go home and finally have a weekend off to do not much of anything and recuperate from a long, hard-fought, well-won week.
That sounds deee-lightful.
Let’s me it happen, bud. Let’s keep that visual in mind, and the affirmations coming…and let’s plan for some meditation time with the writing, to get us in the mood to create.
Now my eyelids are drooping. It’s time to go to bed.
Good night!