Late Week 5 Goals Check-in

[alanajoli]

Between the hyphens is a bit that I'm copying over from my Kaz's Summer Camp check-in comment this week, because it'd feel too sad to type it twice.

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I wrote a book review. Plus column!

Minus column? I realized, in looking at my saved fiction files, that aside from my ongoing role playing games, I've created nothing of my own since last June. A whole year has gone by without any unique creative input from me. (I'm cowriting that novel, which I'm behind on, as seems to be my wont these days, but it's a collaborative effort in someone else's world, not my own. It's a great project and I'm glad I'm doing it, but it's not -mine- in the way that other fiction has been mine...)

I'm hoping this is my hump, that this realization is the one that motivates me forward. I'm hoping.

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I'm proud to be working on BT, don't get me wrong. I love cowriting with lyster. But I need to do *something* to get back on the writing horse, to write things that are uniquely mine.

In the meantime, copyediting is piling up and a couple of reference book essays and a slew of obituaries are waiting for me. Here we are, back again to the learning-to-balance side of life. If I get back to blogging this week, I want to talk about priorities, so maybe bouncing ideas off of all of you will help me figure out how to manage my work and writing time better.

Comments

[lyster.livejournal.com]

You can do it!

Seriously, you can. I want to get the Substrate band back together soon (next month, maybe, after wedding festivities die down), and then you're on deck for a short story. :)

Of course, I've been sitting on my Faulknerian submission to Writers of the Future for about five months now, so I don't really get to talk.

Keep fighting!

[biguglymandoll.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I hear ya. I've started setting my alarm to get up earlier, so that I'll write in the morning. Sometimes I've gotten some morning exercise in, but no extra writing, so *that's* not working. I'm at least getting the blog running a little more often, but the book isn't getting any longer...
Good luck!