It's been a while since I did one of these. Don't expect me to catch up. LOL
Almost two years ago, I went and got me one of those payin' job things. Last Tuesday, I gave my two-weeks notice - which basically amounted to nine days worth of work. Friday the 7th is my last day. Think of it as me retiring again. Think of it as me shrugging, if you're so inclined. In reality, it's just time for me to come home and get back to being me again - writer, fisherman, gardener, kitty mommy, housewife - without day-job distractions. (I was going to say without any outside distractions, but the world being what it is means plenty of outside distractions. Blerg.)
The first thing I need to do, which I'm already starting to do, is get back into a writerly mindset. This means taking care of the business side of writing, refilling the well by reading, and then actually sitting my ass down in this chair and writing. For the business side, I delisted all my books from Draft 2 Digital and am taking them back to Kindle Select so I can drum up some page reads. As single novels or series are marked as delisted, I'm enrolling them in KDP. I did this a while ago with Song of Storm and Shroud. Last week, I did it for Blink of an I and for the SCIU series. I'll be doing some marketing for those in the coming days/weeks, as time and money allow.
I've also been reading. I finally set a Goodreads goal for 2024 - 35 books. I think I can do that in the next seven months. I've already read 4, so I'm off to a good start.
The actual sitting down and writing will come. I'll make it happen starting later this month. The plan is to start small. In the beginning, I'll be in my chair with a pen and my notebook, jotting down ideas and writing little sentences and paragraphs about nothing in particular. I'd like to do some kind of JulNoWriMo - July Novel Writing Month - wherein I set myself a goal and write toward that end on a single novel. I don't think I'll be able to do 50K in a month yet, so I'm not even going to try. Maybe 30K. Maybe only 15K. The point will be to write every day so that the atrophied writing muscles get back into shape. I'll talk more about that as the time approaches.
In non-writing, I have 6 tomato plants I'll be nurturing and all of my gardens need care after two years of neglect, I have a lake full of fish waiting to ignore my worm, and Sawyer needs a motherly influence to curb his less-than-stellar behavior.
I'm ready to begin. 5 more days of the day-job to weather through and then I'm home. I feel good. I feel strong. I'm ready to pass out lollipop, kick ass, and write books... and I'm ALL out of lollipops. ;o)
How are things in your world lately?
Yes. Go drown some worms! That was my first thought when you mentioned doing this. I feel like I'm coming out of hibernation so we're sort of in the same place, only at opposites extremes--you coming out of paid-work mode, me emerging from lethargic medical recovery. I hope to be writing before July but even if I am, I'll happily do a July writing challenge with you!
ReplyDeleteAre you counting down the days and hours? 😉 I know hubs and the kittercats will be happy to have you underfoot again. Hang in there. 🤗
Yay, you're back and (about to be) writing again! I missed you.
ReplyDeleteNo writing yet for me, but I'm beginning to feel the mojo coming back. A little. I just need to figure out what I'm doing right and keep it up. :-)