Madness!
(Thanks to everyone who offered encouragement about both PowerPoint and my class in general on Tuesday. You’ll be happy to know that I did finish the class and now just need to record the audio and get the thing posted.)
(Even thanks to Rick, who expounded on the value of using an overhead projector. :P)
Where is the year going? It’s half gone. It’s half gone and I am not being nearly as productive as I would like to be.
May was a wash, of course, due to certain unfortunate circumstances that we’re still dealing with, and June hasn’t been much better around the small, mobile ones being out of school (and some of us having been too eager when signing people up for summer camps). February was my surgery, and there was the car accident in March (insurance guy is not currently calling me back, go figure).
I think, maybe, around mid to late July things will start to calm back down.
But, I mean, is anyone ever exactly where they plan to be in terms of productivity for the year? Maybe. Maybe there are people out there who are better at estimating how long it takes to do something and how much time they’re likely to have to do said thing.
It’s not all bad, though. I’ve gotten things done.
- I finished my serial story, which I’ve been working on since 2009.
- I have edited almost all my nonfiction books (on the last one) and have made all associated workbooks/journals.
- I finished the dummy of my first picture book and have done some editing on it.
- I’ve written a few new short stories, one of which was published on June 1 (here).
- I’ve been working on getting critiques on books that are in the revision stage (expecting one back sometime in the next few weeks, yay!).
- I’ve been working through a writing class that I bought ages ago and have a decent start on a new novel.
- I’ve been writing drabbles in established universes for fun and practice.
So not terrible. Not where I wanted to be–I did want the nonfiction stuff ready to do a few months back–but it’s not nothing. And we’ll keep on trucking, and everything will eventually get done.
(And then we’ll start new stuff and the process will be neverending.)
How’d the first half of 2019 go for you, squiders?
