Ok, babysitting just about over
They’re not back from their walk yet so I’m grabbing time to update. Boy, I don’t know about you guys but I am wrung out. We should go on a picnic!
I’m ahead of my query goals for the week. I have two queries out, one essay, and two letters of intro. Wait, no three queries (one from last week). I have questions/calls out to three sources (I really need more open adoption expert sources — most of them have not returned calls/emails). Umm, what else? (Scratching my head.) I have two more books coming from my editor to do this weekend-ish. (She’s flexible about deadlines.) I still need to track down what happened to my invoice for another article. I also set up a database of market info and story ideas, which I’ve been meaning to do for awhile.
I haven’t gotten anywhere on my sample chapter (must examine my inability to get this done because it’s more than just not having time, clearly).
Ok, so tomorrow I have childcare again for two hours in the morning and I need to think of what to do with it. I will:
1. Reach out to one of the sources again;
2. Outline my sample chapter (again) if I can’t get that interview done;
3. Clean out this little work area.
If the source is available that’ll eat up most of my time.
Ditto on the wrung out.
I have the same issue. I write like crazy, but certain things, the “must do” sort, often get set aside.
I think it has to do with self confidence.
When the idea is in my head, I KNOW I can make it great, but once I actually write it, it will always be less than I want it to be.
My art is like that too. Other people will tell me “It’s a great painting!” But for me, it’s not as good as the vision in my mind.
Then of course, I hit that wall, where if I paint or edit) any more, it just gets worse, instead of bettter. So I stop, not feeling like it’s done to my satisfaction, but as done as I can do it.