Sunday 27th June 2021

One thing I’ve not yet mastered is working with distractions when away from home.  I’m not sure it’s possible, yet I have all my tools such that, theoretically, I can work from my mobile.

However, I got a call last night that a friend was having to rush to A&E (nothing life threatening thankfully) and I had to go pet sit as at that time we had no idea when they’d be back.  Thankfully I have a key and the spare room is always made up, so staying over wasn’t a problem.  But they ended up getting back at 4am, which coupled with the stress of everything going on meant I lost yesterday.  No writing, no tasks complete, nothing.

These things happen and obviously my priority was knowing that everyone was OK and the pets were settled.  But I have SOOO much to do, and now I know everyone is all right, I’m stressing a little.

I’ve been asked for revision on a secret project I’m excited about.  It had gone dead for a while, and publishing being publishing, you always fear the worst when that happens.  I’d put off chasing, hoping that I could get the first draft of The Accursed done first, but they came back this week, and it’s another example where I’m both over the moon and frustrated.  I had planned to get a lot of work done on that today.

What makes it even more complicated is that it’s not as simple as saying, “right, I’ll write all day tomorrow then.”  I know I work best when I split writing sessions up, and space them inbetween other tasks.  But how do I catch up when the stuff I need to do tomorrow already fills my day.  It’s not as if I wasn’t already swamped.

Most of all, I’m pissed at the loss of momentum.  I feel like my second jab wasn’t just a shot in the arm of vaccine.  I kicked off a lot of plans that had been laying around, and was starting to progress those, whilst also getting a decent word count done.       And as I’ve noticed… as much as I don’t believe you need to write every day, my writing metrics are denoting otherwise.  I appear to build up my daily word count dependent on my streak.

Tomorrow is going to be hell.  Whatever I do, something won’t get done and I’ll be pissed.  I just want to know how I go from having everything under control to complete chaos with only one missed day.  And worst of all, I’m doing this to myself.

I have the new Warcraft patch on Wednesday and whilst I have stuff I need to do before that. It should mean a bit of a leaner latter half of the week.  My original plan was to take a couple of weeks off when 9.1 came out and just do a bunch of streaming… but this novel is only 80,000 words done, videos need intros and first episodes.  Things need planning, and I have paid work that needs revisions.

Ask me again on Wednesday whether I got there or not.

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