Last week’s goals:

1. Work on SWMF for 30 minutes on 5/7 days. DONE
2. Finish the current scene and move on to the next one. DONE
3. Work on the YA novel for 20 minutes on 5/7 days. Hmm. Done on 4 days.
4. Schedule no. 3, i.e. set a time slot for it. Done, sort of. I didn’t diarise it, or anything, but I have been doing it in the mornings before I sit down at my laptop.
5. Spend 2 x 30 minutes on submissions. Spent 1 x 30 mins on this.

I’m still a little dazed at having so much time, even after spending more time on writing than I have in ages. The past nine months have been a slog, but this is one advantage – truly appreciating my time – that I wasn’t expecting to gain! Now I get to exercise and do fun stuff and cook delicious, (mostly) healthy food and hang out with lovely people…and spend more time on writing, while also earning money. And tomorrow is a bank holiday, which gives me even more time to do those lovely things.

Writing goals for this week:

1. Work on SWMF for 30 minutes on 5/7 days.
2. Work on the YA novel for 30 mins on 5/7 days.
3. Start editing the YA novel. I’m going to experiment with using this set of blog posts as a guide, so hopefully I won’t feel too lost when it’s time to pitch in, the way I did a few weeks ago.
4. Figure out a writing plan for June. I would like to take a little time off work (and I think I deserve it). But I need to figure out how and when to do this. Which leads me to…
5. Spend 15 minutes a day working on admin and finances.
6. Enter a competition or submit some writing. I’m expecting to hear about a couple of submissions in the next couple of weeks – which means it’s important to throw some other exciting stuff in the mix in order to keep things interesting.

And now I am going for a run to a pub. Happy writing!

I’m going to change the timings of these check-ins, because to me it makes more sense to be thinking about what I want to achieve for the next week on a Sunday, just as I do with the rest of my life.

This past week has been lovely. I’ve had a fair amount of work on, but without the crushing workload I’ve been living with for the past nine months. So I’ve been able to spend significant wodges of time on writing, not to mention other things that make me happy and/or are good for me. And I REALLY appreciate this extra time, in a way I probably didn’t before.

My goals for the upcoming week:

1. Work on SWMF for 30 minutes on 5/7 days.
2. Finish the current scene and move on to the next one.
3. Work on the YA novel for 20 minutes on 5/7 days.
4. Schedule no. 3, i.e. set a time slot for it. It’s been easy to fit in SWMF because it’s on the computer and I’m more or less in the habit of working on that before I do anything else when I sit down at my desk. The YA novel is harder because it’s currently a pile of paper under my coffee table, which is where I sit when I’m trying to relax. Hmm. Maybe it would help to do it at my desk.
5. Spend 2 x 30 minutes on submissions.

Feel free to chime in with your own goals below!

Confession: I think this is the first week since last September in which I’ve done no writing at all. I do have an excuse – I was laid up with a stomach bug, while also scrambling to finish everything up at work, working evenings…and then for the past couple of days, I have mostly been weepy and exhausted. And still working, only working normal hours rather than all the hours.

Obviously I want to (will!) get in some writing in the next week, but I’m not going to set any goals at the moment, because I think I need a few days to rebalance and take stock of the past nine months. So I’ll be back next week, hopefully with more energy and joie de vivre.

In the meantime, if you want to chime in and tell me how your writing’s going, please do! ❤

This is mostly a (very brief) report on last week’s writing, because this week I’ve been sick/overwhelmed with work, although I’m feeling much better now. So:

1. Work on SWMF on 3/7 days. – done
2. Finish the current scene and move onto the next one. done
3. Spend 20 minutes on rereading the YA novel and taking notes – hmm. not done.
4. Work on submissions on 2/7 days. done

Next week’s goals – I have just one week left of my current ridiculous workload, so I’m going to keep those goals the same:

1. Work on SWMF on 3/7 days.
2. Spend 20 minutes on rereading the YA novel and taking notes – on 3/7 days.
3. Work on submissions on 2/7 days.

Back unto the breach!