I finished Contract Claimed on November 11th at about noon. It wasn’t until I headed out for my passport photo that I realized the actual date, and that I missed a ceremony happening near me that I was supposed to go to. I can’t keep the days of the week straight, numbers are apparently beyond me. For some reason I thought Sunday was the 11th.
I’m disappointed in myself for forgetting.
After finishing, I took two full days off writing. If I finish early in the morning it’s technically two and a half because the days off start in the morning. But I think I need to shift the days off to my next weekend off. Monday, what with the day job, was a real struggle for me to get through.
I’ve made an amendment to the plan. It’s now write a book, read a book. The read a book isn’t strictly enforced because I may not always have time. These are indie books and likely always free.
I’m a broke author on the verge of starving artist, but all books will be downloaded legally so that the author gets that little nudge.
So, Sunday I read a book. And I hated it. That’s all I’ll say at this point. If I encounter a book I love I will, of course, go on about it and such. I’m all about spreading the good news.
Yesterday I went back to work. It’s all editing at the moment, as Fragments and Seed are both completed and are up next for publication.
Technically speaking, after that I can laze about for the next eleven months or so. I never promised publishing all the books I write in that twelve month period.
I doubt I’d make it more than a week before I started editing again, however.
I had planned on publishing Fragments in about two weeks, but life got in the way.
If this constant exhaustion could go away faster, that’d be fantastic. It’s my own fault for forgetting my iron supplement. About four more weeks before I see results. Ugh.
Besides editing, I’m going to be taking some time to help Beth out. She wants to rebrand, I think the word is. Come December I’ll be writing again.
Given the fact that it’s Christmas, and the busiest and most exhausting month of the year for the day job, I am planning at this point to write Contract Sealed, or more of finish it. I think there are four to six chapters left to write. It is not a full book by far and is within my rules for the year long run.
But four to six chapters in a month that last year reduced me to tears and a catatonic state once I left work isn’t asking too much of myself. I still have about sixteen days to change my mind but short of my workplace burning down, and my no longer having a job, that is my plan.
I can officially say:
Goal: 12 books written in 12 months
Current: 1 book written in 1 month.
Word count: (I’ll add this in once I have access to a computer)
Woo!
… But I know I’ll be cursing myself when I start editing.
Aya DeAniege 