Its
March 2015 and I have been having thoughts lately of feeling as if I have
failed myself, in my mind and dreams I should be published, but the reality
always resurfaced I slacked off and unconsciously writing became a hobby rather
than a serious focus which saddened me.
I think I also lost the focus how to make juggling work; as of
late I am pursuing my degree, being a mom to two beautiful girls a nine
year old and a fourteen year old , and working full-time is very difficult
to juggle along with pursuing my writing dream in
addition a challenging situation I continue to deal with. Truthfully at that
moment I had to take a pause on many things in order to deal with that matter
but the issue is stabilizing itself and I feel I have a brighter perspective
and ready to make a career of my aspiration to get an agent and
published.
I decided to stop belly aching so to speak and juggle my task better, I
love Facebook and other social media for the purpose of learning new
ideas relating to writing and I was fortunate one day to see http://www.victoriaschwab.com/ calendar
how she juggles school, exercise and her publishing commitments and that
was the starting point for me to be focused on my writing career, which was a
huge motivator when stickers are involved I love stickers. Writing 500 words
per day has helped me take the edge off so to speak because I am no longer
dreaming of unrealistic things I am setting goals of firstly rewriting
one novel at a time and also coming to terms that the first novel I had written
needed more editing and also longer period of time in which I do not look
at it because I focused for too long it was the novel that was going to get me
an agent and it may be but truthfully only a few authors have
had that awesome experience but later acknowledged they were lucky because
the book was not their best even though it sold really well. I also realized to
pursue a writing career I must read more often and not only authors I adore but
a variety of authors in a variety of genres although romance is still my number
one genre. So the focus is to follow my calendar and at the end
of the month I will get a sense what took more of my time lately
many stickers were for school less on exercising and less on writing because
school is taking up much of my time due to assignments, but the days that I
have extra time to write I feel great the novel I am currently rewriting is at
the 70K mark my aim is for 90K and when I begin the reread/rewrite
process again I hope to stay within that range. I will also begin my
work out routine working out helped me because it did decrease my stress and
improved my self-esteem. I feel more determined and eager to accomplish my
writing goals.
Below Victoria Scwab explains the calender/sticker for writing
Happy Writing.
