Time management.
Now you might say, how is time management hard? You're a writer. You write. That's all you do.
Well, no, it's not ALL I do. I have a family and pets who think they're both human and my children. They are, don't get me wrong. But it's difficult when one of the cats thinks he's a person, another cat thinks he's a dog and the third cat is a boneless slug. Oh and the dogs? One has serious separation anxiety (from me), one thinks she's a person, too, and the third one still can't control his long legs - he's four and all goofy, clumsy leggy hound. They're all clingy and in desperate need of attention when I'm neck-deep in something important. I'm a mom and a wife, too. So yes, it's a little hectic around my house.
Now back to the issue at hand. Time management. I'm looking at my writing schedule - most all of it takes place at night after everyone has (mostly) settled down - and getting a little freaked out.
This is in one way a great problem to have. I've got work that wants to be done and stories dying to be told. I'm a panster for the most part and just write as the stories flow. Scheduling was never my thing, but I'm a sucker for a hard deadline. So you'd think I'd be happy. Stories coming left and right.
But that's where the rub is. Being that pantster I mentioned, sometimes the story isn't flowing. That's why I tend to have three or four stories going at one time, but still. If the deadline is fast approaching and the story isn't working... I tend to freak out. I like deadlines, but I NEED to have space. I can't write until the zero hour and have the story work. It doesn't.
So to help my issues out, I set up my calendar with reminders... is this story done? Have you started this one? Where are you on this one? I've got the reminders a few days out and a few weeks out from when things are due so hopefully I stay on track.
But it's still the YIKES! Factor. Yikes, how did I get myself into this? Yikes, I'm letting the characters run away with me. Yikes, how am I going to get this all done and correctly? Yikes, I'm in over my head...
What about you? Do you ever have those moments? How do you cope? Let me know. We can commiserate and help each other out.
In the mean time, here's a little bit about my latest release, You Complete Me
Battle
Scarred 4: You Complete Me by
Megan Slayer
M/F
Paranormal,
Contemporary
Novella
Loose
Id
Art by
Mina Carter
An AllRomance Ebooks Staff Pick!
I’ve
got your back, if you’re willing to trust your enemy.
Hagan Dean thought he was helping his friend. He was playing the
role of savior…except he ended up left for dead in the sunshine. Vampires and
sunshine don’t mix. Even worse? A Hunter—one of the sexiest women
he’s laid
eyes on—is ready to kill him. He’s got a lot to survive
for and the odds are stacked against him, but he’s a fighter. Will the Hunter
let him live another night? Or is this vampire destined to fry into a pile of
soot?
Emily
Cross is a born Hunter. Her life’s work is to keep the balance between the
Supers and the Supers who have stepped out of line. She’s never been keen on
the Rogues taking over the Hunters. She doesn’t want to kill all the Supers…she
is one! When she finds a nearly charred vampire in the woods during one of the
hunts, her thoughts turn from killing to keeping him alive.
Will
these two opposites come together to find common ground in order to help end
the war? Or will the passion crackling between them tear their worlds apart?
Available
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