It’s nearly the end of August, and my calendar shows me I was scheduled to be finished with the first draft of the novel work-in-progress. If you look in the status box on the right-hand side of the blog you’ll see that I’m up to nearly 43,000 words of a projected 90,000.
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
–Douglas Adams
The bad news is that I’m not even half-way there.
The good news is that I have persisted. The work in progress is still in progress and hasn’t been abandoned.
So — I’m resetting the deadline.
The new deadline is Dec. 31.
Somehow I need to carve out more time for writing, so I can pick up the productivity. pace. And, since my schedule shifts and adjusts at the beginning of a new semester, I think I might have found a few extra pockets of time. Fingers crossed.