It’s amazing what a person can get done when they have
deadlines. No surprise there. I admit it. I’m a procrastinator. Waiting until
the last minute to write a blog is my usual. That’s why I write my Monday
Morning Musing post on—you guessed it—Monday morning.
Yesterday was my turn at Paranormal
Romantics. Plus it was Weekend
Writing Warrior (WeWriWa) time. Consequently I had to have two posts
prepared. For Paranormal Romantics, the group had discussed writing about
traditions. (Love when I’m given a topic.) Since family traditions differ by
culture, I wondered about traditions in alien cultures. And why that would be
important. For WeWriWa, a weekly post, I’m leaving excerpts (8-10 sentences)
from my first PI mystery, The Case of the
Bygone Brother. Love the comments. If you missed either of those posts,
click on the links above.
Writing progress. I am making progress, very slow progress, on
The Case of the Meddling Mama, 3rd
Alex O’Hara mystery. I’m more than halfway through. Yay. I had to take out time
to write a short story for The Roses of Prose holiday online anthology. As many
of you know, each December the contributors to RoP write short holiday stories
that are serialized over two or three days on the blogsite. The twist to this
is that each story will begin with the same sentence. This year’s is: This was the absolute last time she kissed anyone
under the mistletoe. Since my story last
year ended with a kiss under the mistletoe, I happily continued the story from
there. Is that serendipity or what? Same characters from Alex O’Hara’s Lake
Michigan resort town. Contrary to my usual way of getting things done, I
finished the short story more than a month ahead of time. My story will run
from December 26-28.
I need to devote this week to Meddling Mama. My deadline to
finish is/was November 30th. Will I finish in time? Maybe I should have
joined NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) that when writers from
all over the world determine they will write a 50k word novel in 30 days. That’s
a little too intense for me. More power to those who participate. Next Monday,
I’ll let you know about my progress.
Enough musing. Time to get to work on that mystery and think
about Thanksgiving. Our niece is having dinner at her house this year. How
delightful that the baton has passed to the next generation. I’ll only have to
decide what dish I’m bringing.
I'm a procrastinator too - I always think I have loads of time, then it's a mad rush at the end to get everything done! Best of luck with meeting your deadline, I'm sure you'll get it done :). Hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving with your family!
ReplyDeleteRushing around? That's me Rachel. Thanks. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving, too.
DeleteI procrastinate, too, and funnily enough, just finished a short story for an anthology that it turns out they don't want until next spring. Now I have no idea what to do, being done so early!
ReplyDeleteLOL, Shannon. We procrastinators should unite. Tomorrow?
DeleteSlow progress is better than no progress, Diane. I do tend to procrastinate far too much. Wishing you a productive month. Take care.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nicola. Wishing you the same.
DeleteWhew! That's a ton of blog post writing in a very tight space of time. I know ALL about that crazy buiz. ;) Of course, I wasn't procrastinating, just got behind with writing deadlines, but it can be done, eh? We both pulled it off! I don't to NaNo either. It just doesn't work well for some of us.
ReplyDeleteThis really is a crazy business. But it's still my fav job.
Deletewhile setting a deadline can help me solve my procrastinating ways, it doesn't work for me and writing. My creative juices come to a screeching halt when I approach a deadline.
ReplyDeleteWe can celebrate our differences, can't we? Whatever works.
DeleteIn school, I never would have gotten anything written without deadlines. I do a bit better now, but I still procrastinate too much. Good luck with what you're working on!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cherie. I burned a lot of midnight oil in school, too.
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