I'm feeling the pressure to have something interesting and fun on the blog! It's so pretty now, and there's that snippet which appears on the home page, set off in a lovely pale gold, that just begs you to read. But what if I don't write something interesting?
Alas, I can't be interesting all the time. (Or maybe not ever, depending on your outlook.) Instead, I'll tell you what I did yesterday. My writerly schedule, as it were. Let's do this list style, because it's easier. 🙂
1. Made coffee.
2. Ate cereal.
3. Went to office with coffee.
4. Opened up Firefox.
5. Wasted entirely too much time doing online things.
6. Finally realized nothing was getting done in the WIP unless I left the house, and therefore my internet.
7. Starbucks. Ah, what is this orange mango smoothie thing they have now? Yum!
8. Write.
9. Curse.
10. Check email on iPhone.
11. Twitter.
12. Write some more.
13. Curse.
14. Peek at iPhone.
15. Curse.
16. Reluctantly cut some stuff from the WIP. Realize it's better without all that mess. Feel happier.
17. Write some more, think maybe I can do it after all.
18. Eventually, leave and pick up a sub for dinner. Stop at grocery store.
19. Eat dinner, send rotten chapters to lovely friend.
20. Work out.
21. Crash.
Yep, the glamorous day of a writer. What's on your schedule today?
Be sure to check out my guest blog over at Romance Magicians. It's about behaving professionally as a writer.
Tuesday's winner: Nicole S. Contact me with your address for your copy of Heaven, Texas!!
More giveaways next week! I hereby designate Monday and Tuesday as prize day. For now. 🙂
There was that 20 minute phone call with me… 🙂
LOL, I thought of that once I’d written this (which was really, really late and I was desperate to go to bed). That would have happened somewhere between numbers 4 and 6. 😉
What I hope today to:
Vacuum the downstairs
Get groceries
Write ten pages
Box up the stuff for the church yard sell
Make a pizza
What I know I will do today:
Write–number of pages pending
Go to lunch with three women who always tell me I’m great even when I’m not
Oooh, Jean! Homemade pizza sounds really good! Vacuuming, not so much. 😀
Hey, if none of the rest of it gets done, but the writing does, you are WAY ahead of the game. Go, girlfriend! Your lunch sounds divine. Have fun!!
Did everything except the vacuuming and it’ll be there tomorrow.
I even feel pretty good about the quality of the ten pages. The only bad thing about writing contemporary, as opposed to fantasy, is I have to look stuff up. I am used to making up my research.
Hope you had a good day too!
Well today I
listened to a baseball game
read
took a nap
watched my soap
had lunch
read
went online
Didn’t do too much because I’m fighting a cold 🙁
Thanks for picking me!
Hope the cold gets better soon, Nicole! I’ll be getting that book out to you in the next couple of days, so hope that helps with the recovery.
🙂