Showing posts with label Writing Updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing Updates. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Working hard and long hours this week


Wow. We had snow. Thunder isn't quite sure what snow is.

This week has been crazy so far. Worked from home yesterday and was on the road today. Will have a really really long day tomorrow. Will have to leave the house by 7:30 and won't get home until nine if I'm lucky. Oye.

Got done about 652 words tonight.
Yesterday got done about 800 words.

It's slow going because I'm trying to smooth it out and make it cohesive.

Then it's the wrap up which I should be done with this weekend if all goes well.

Hope everyone is staying warm and cozy in all this cold weather!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Um...Michelle was a bad bad girl?


Part of my New Year's resolutions is not only to write everyday but to also be honest with myself and others when I don't. It's no surprise to my friends that my darling hubby has been out of work since March. (He's doing much better than I would under the circumstances) so pretty much the household expenses are dependent upon me and my job. I really love my day job. I'm in sales but right now with the economic crisis it's harder and harder to do my job. With plant layoffs and the basic reduction of the gross economic product I'm having to work five times harder than I was last April just to get appointments. And let me tell you I was working pretty damn hard then. I'm not whining--this is simply a fact.

Which is the reason that I didn't write last night. I am going to write tonight. I've promised myself. And I'm tired. And I ended up not leaving the office until after 7:00 p.m. However, sales people have to make numbers and you do what you have to do to survive.

However, I'm still really proud of myself and I'm not going to beat myself up. I know there will be days like yesterday and I'm sure to have more of them in the future. The key I think is to get back on track immediately. Which I will do tonight.

I'm at the halfway point tonight at six hundred words and will be shutting it down here shortly.

Girls, if there is a will, there is a way. That's all I know and this is something that is drastically critical to my self satisfaction. My feeling that I am in control of my own destiny. So when it feels like you just can't sit down to the computer and write? Don't think about it. Just do it.

2009 is the year. I'm going to make it happen come hell or high water.

Will come back after I'm done and update word meters and post.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Yikes...Here comes the cold


Well, at least the rain is gone but they are saying we are going to be cold, cold, cold next week. We lost a lot of trees today with wind gusts up to 60 mph. This is just a quick update and I'm really tired. Looks like Wednesdays are going to be late nights for writing.

Went to work, made sales calls, more people getting laid off. When on earth is this going to end? Came home made dinner, went to choir practice, got home at nine watched like ten minutes of the people's choice awards and then came in here and worked on Last Kiss and got 1042 new words. I hope in the light of day they will be good ones. I'm not so sure. LOL. But I wrote. And that's the important thing.

How did everyone else do?

Still hooked on the Roswell guy. I bought the third season off ebay. Can't wait to read it.