Ok, I haven't been so good about keeping up with the blog. Somehow the summer totally slipped away and in a few days it will be fall. Crazy! It's funny because somehow I'm way busier now than I was working in an office full-time. How did that happen? Between working on the novel, freelancing and just keeping up with the house and life in general, I'm swamped.
Early on I set a deadline for myself of the end of September to finish the first draft, but that's clearly not going to happen. Right now I'm at 58,000 words, and I think I might have managed 1,000 words over the past two weeks total, which is terrible. I recently started a new freelance copyediting job, and because of that I haven't had the time I once did earlier in the summer to write.
While I'm excited for the opportunity, it definitely has made it harder for me to stick to my daily word count goal of 1k, which makes me sad since I was managing 1k or close to it every day for a few months. I'm trying my best to plug away at the novel and think a more realistic goal is December at this point. As long as I finish before the end of the year, I will be happy.
On top of everything else, I have my reviews for Examiner and a huge pile of books to get through. I haven't had time to myself to read in weeks, and I really need to do that. I'm determined to get through at least two books this week because I feel SO behind right now...
