This month has been a lesson in not getting too hung up on writing plans. I made myself this very specific, month-by-month schedule for writing for the year at the end of 2020. But as this month has progressed, and The Children of Oher has kept growing beyond what I can reasonably finish by the end of January, I’ve had to accept that this year probably won’t go quite as I’ve arranged. I might need more than three months to revise the second Enorians book, and then I might need more than two months to give the first Enorians book another look before I start querying it.
This week the owner of the horse I ride every Wednesday told me she would be out of town this weekend and next weekend and said I could ride him a couple extra days. While I obviously very happily agreed, because I’d never turn down extra pony time, it does mean that my writing has and will continue to suffer a little. I simply have a significantly smaller number of hours after work to write when I ride.
So, I’m trying to be flexible and forgive myself if things don’t go quite as I planned. It’s important not to get too hung up on how you think things should go. It’s important not to beat yourself up if you don’t write that exact number of words you were hoping for (guilty of doing that myself on many occasions). It’s important to remember that there will just be days when life gets in the way, and it’s not the end of the world that you didn’t get to write.
I have a whole second half of the year schedule, but honestly, if I can get the two Enorians books revised and start querying the first one, I’ll be happy.
What I wrote over the past week
Chapters eighteen, nineteen, and twenty of The Children of Oher
What I’m reading right now
The Archive of the Forgotten by A.J. Hackwith
Red Dust and Dancing Horses by Beth Cato
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Rennie Brown & Dave King
A.M. Sӧtemann 
I’m famous for beating myself up over things I can not control, as you well know! But you are right, we shouldn’t beat ourselves up too much. I still think you are Super Woman in disguise because I don’t know how you do it all! You inspire me!
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Haha, it’s okay. I am, too, which is why this month has been a good lesson for me.
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