Well I had a rough week – I won’t get in to a list of excuses but ultimately I finished the month of February 4 hours short on my writing goal for the month. I was right on schedule until the very last week of February but several stressful things that happened back to back just sort of knocked me down and I didn’t make it. Although I did manage to get my 10 submissions in (woo-hoo for that small victory).
Now I’m a little behind where I wanted to be with my thesis and drastically behind where I should be with the novella I’m writing for workshop this semester. But I’ve decided that rather than getting all stressed out about it – which is only going to make it even harder to get back on track – I’m going to consider that having spent 52 hours this month on my writing is still more than a lot of people and all is most certainly not lost.
I still have about 50 pages of my thesis to revise – and it’s the ending that is changing the most so some of these last few chapters I’m going to have to completely rewrite from the ground up – and I need to get it done by this Friday. Why? Because my mom is coming to town (what fun!) for the first half of spring break, I have to actually hand in the ready-to-defend thesis immediately after spring break, and I don’t want it hanging over my head - the thought that the second she leaves I’ve got X number of chapters to rewrite – while my mom is here. This way I can have a nice, relaxing visit while she’s here and then after she leaves I’ll alternately work on my novella (which needs a lot of work, let me tell you) and go through smaller, sentence level edits of my thesis.
So. Keeping on keeping on in spite of February’s failure. For March I’ll be fervently working on my thesis for the first half of the month and then my novella in the second half. Hopefully I won’t have any trouble meeting my goals . . .
Which are:
- Spend at least 62 hours on writing (an average of 2 hours a day)
- Submit to 10 places
