Only talk when you have something to say

Hmm. I’m not sure who uttered those words first but I’d like to say… I do, thank you very much. I have quite a lot to say, and if you don’t particularly want to hear any of it, because it’s boring, or some such thing, well, then, you probably shouldn’t be here because I rarely don’t have something to say. ;)

Should I declutter my blog for the new year?

I think the way I’d do it would be to turn all my posts up until now into pending posts (so they don’t clutter my drafts) with the intent to delete them if I don’t have second thoughts after a bit of time. Because although I enjoy blogging here, I’m not that sure I want this stuff to linger in perpetuity. ;)

I’m feeling antsy right now. I didn’t get off to a good start with my writing today. I finished only one session this morning and now I’m hesitating to get going on my second one, for some unidentified reason. Besides that, I wrote on the wrong book this morning. I mean wrong, because it’s the second to last book on my list of books to write in 2015. Meaning there are 19 books of various lengths I want to finish before I finish this one. Yeah, like I said, wrong book.

It’s turning out to be that kind of day, which sucks, because I have to write my words today or I’ll actually be behind.

You see, I’m not really behind right now, even though I’ve only written 3,650 words this year so far. That’s because during that time I spent on January 1 setting up my production schedule, I gave myself 8 weeks off writing this year if I want to take them and one of those weeks just happened to be New Year’s week. So today is my first actual writing day in 2015.

I don’t think it would be good for my mental fortitude to slip today of all days.

Why would I want to declutter my blog?—that’s the question I’m asking myself right now and I’m not all that sure about the answer. I’d better back away from this post and have lunch, then try to get myself settled in to finish my last 4 sessions actually writing one of the right books.

Sunny, beautiful, and cold enough to freeze the R off winter

My kids’ school had a two hour delay today because of the weather, so my writing is having a two hour delay.

It’s just a few minutes after 9 am and while my day might be off kilter, I just had breakfast and I’m going to try really (really, really) hard to get my 5 x 50 minute writing sessions done before lunch so I’ll have time to finish (and begin) formatting some paperbacks I need to format but that I haven’t gotten back to since I started the project.

This is one reason I’m trying this experiment to stop my writing time from sprawling across the entire day. If the writing comes first, I end up doing nothing but the writing and there are other things I need to do to keep up the publishing side of my writing career.