I have got myself a little overwhelmed this week, with too many things to do and not enough time to do it all. It’s been fun but also busy, tiring and not quite as productive as I would have hoped.
This is a little bit like my to do pile, at the moment (in fact, technically this is part of my to do pile!):
So let’s start with the writing, shall we. Well, I got the timesheet out and this week I dropped 2 hours – Friday and Saturday – so I’m going into next week with a challenge to make that up. I don’t know if I will do it, looking at my diary for next week – but I’m very conscious that I have 17 days to get the first draft of the whodunnit completed so I really do need to get on. In terms of the storyline, I am on track – I have 3 interviews, a repeat, a reveal and the end point, so if I can get the 3 interviews done this week, the repeat and reveal next week, and the end point plus any mop-up in the 3 days of the week after, I’ll be ok!!
I also need to dig out a couple of my poems and pass them on to a writer for a second opinion; but he is awaiting my feedback on his work so I need to prepare that first! I promised it about 4 weeks ago so I must get that done by Wednesday at the latest.
In the non-writing, I have to get to grips with the proofing for my friend, which I have set some time aside for tomorrow, and work out some time to go through a project proposal of another member of the writing group.
But they are for next week, and in the meantime I really should be getting the most out of this one. After all, there’s 2 hours left of it!
And finally – as you know, I gave up on the 100 novels list a few weeks ago, more due to time that anything else. So here is the full list and I hope you find something new and interesting to try from this list, as I did. As to the next step – a more diverse list, perhaps – there’s an opportunity to get involved if you like. One book I would have liked to see, but would never have appeared, is The Silk Road by Jeanne Larsen – a book I have mentioned more than once on here because of the impact it had on me. It has influenced my thinking on mythology, opened my eyes to the way language is used differently in different cultures, given me new and interesting poetic forms to try. I loved it as a teenager, and as an adult writer I have absorbed lessons from it that have shifted my perspective – and I still love it!
So there you have it, folks – a week of doing, adding to the to do list, and planning for the next phase. Lots more still to do, but now I just want to go and read my favourite book!!
Happy writing,
EJ
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