Obviously, I’m less happy with this week than I am with the last:
Book of M:
- Background Notes Wordcount: 0 words
- First Draft Wordcount: 0 words
Story of V:
- Wordcount: 0 words
Grand Total: 0 words
If I need to spell out why, I’ve not been doing a very good job at spelling out my writing-related goals for the year…
For those following along at home, I’ve now burned through 7 weeks of this year without writing, compared to only 4 weeks of the year spent writing. I’d allotted myself 14 weeks this year for non-writing, anticipating that I’d need quite a few. Yet, it’s clear that I was being… optimistic.
Overall… I’ve written just north of 3,000 words so far this year. That’s not a lot of writing, so far. In fact, even if I take out the seven weeks I’ve spent not writing this year, I’m only at 43% of my goal for the year. (I should’ve written around 7,000 words if I’d written 1,750 each week that I spent writing.)
From where I stand now, quite honestly, I don’t see a near-term end in sight for this drought from writing. I know it will end, eventually, but I just can’t tell for certain when it will. A few weeks? A few months? Will most of the year pass before I am once again able to find enough writing time to make some solid forward momentum? Time will tell, I suppose. There’s your daily cliche for you.
So, how are you doing, this week? If you write, did you get much writing done?
The Undiscovered Author 
Very little writing. Too much else going on. Very different stuff than yours (congratulations, by the way), but still distracting.
The odd part is that when I do have a few moments, editing is going really well. So, that’s something.
Thank you for the congrats. Editing is still writing work, so all is clearly not lost, eh?
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