Tonight’s post will be full of shock and awe, are you ready? Are you sitting down? Do you have your coffee?
A) I am actually at write in! Woot! laughing. It’s been a rough month but here I am planning for Norwescon which starts tomorrow. Not that I am really going Thursday. I plan to drop a friend off, get my badge, drop my books off to the Indie writers table I am hawking my wares at (quick shout out to Jeff from Clockwork Dragon), and give the kiddo a tour of where mommy will be spending the weekend.
B) I have jettisoned my murder mystery. The facts, just the fact. I hate it. I hated writing it during nano. I had a miserable time doing Nano last year and that misery has clung to the draft like the stench of rotten sushi clings to the interior of your car when your kiddo drops a couple of salmon rolls under the seat and doesn’t tell you. I was continuing to work on it because I felt I owed it to the Nano to Publish folks to stay on the same time line I was asking them to meet. However Sheri reminded me that I published on this schedule last year, so I’m not really asking them to do anything I haven’t done. So it’s over. I stuck a fork in it.
C) My spy novel is on like donkey kong.
I’ve decided to report on my stated 2016 goals each Wednesday at cafe for a little prod of accountability. The goals have been adjusted to reflect those I have completed and those I have dropped as not worthy at this time. LOL
– Participate in one flash fiction challenge per month.
√ Er, March is almost over and I haven’t done jack all for this. And really I am not going to before the end of the month. I am off to Norwescon, then to Lego land. Maybe just maybe I’ll be inspired somewhere along that mess but it’s doubtful.
– Prepare and teach “Nano to Publish”.
√ Going swimmingly. March was awesome and you can read all about that this weekend.
– Any time I am not actively working on my 2015 Nano Novel, write 2500 words per week on my spy novel until it is done. (After four years, it’s time to put this mess to bed.)
√ I’m working on it. I’m actually working on it.
Non writing goals
– Prepare and teach two classes at the coop for the 2016-2017 school year.
√ um, this is very up in the air. There’s some stuff going on. More when I can.
– Take better care of my body, ie. stop compulsively painting, crocheting, and writing until my back or shoulder is so tore I can barely use either.
√ I kind of got into a little painting obsession but I have not caused myself any pain. LOL
– yoga daily.
√ More or less.
T.A. Henry 
Your humor is amazing. I think you could write a humorous self help book about staying sane amidst a heavy workload of self-imposed goals and deadlines (or something like that).
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laughing. You are so kind.
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One year when NaNoWriMo started I had little inspiration. I had nothing. There it was November first and pffffft. That’s what sand sounds like. Yeah. I had sand. So I wrote a novel about sand. I called it ‘Sifting/Sifted Sand’ (Not sure now which). Great title, I know. I liked the girl okay. The guy is a lot like Niyk, the hero who blossomed in the next year’s NaNoWriMo, ‘The Prisoner’s of Jyldor.’ Point is, although ‘Sifting-ed Sand isn’t my best novel, there’s parts I like. It’s not all bad. I can’t or won’t fix it at this point to make it better. But I’m not disappointed it exists. Sometime I’m going to open it up and read it again!
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