Can Anyone Please Add Another?
Posted by Michele Montgomery on Friday, June 25, 2010
24 Hours to a day please? I'm asking nicely. Ever since moving back to
Denver I have become so unbelievably busy it's silly. I went from living
in Tucson and being able to write almost all the time to living in
downtown Denver and begging for an hour to write any of the time. Oh,
I'm not complaining, I'm just saying. I mean, in Tucson I didn't work
outside of my home so I had loads of time to do what I love. I was
working on a huge novel, well, I guess it'd be a series actually. A
total of three books, with possible spin offs. In fact that story is
for the most part done. Most part: I still haven't finished the third
book. Why? Well, when I decided to shift things around and work outside
of my comfy zone I found that I loved writing in a whole new genre. But,
I am jumping ahead of myself.
So, I live in Denver and I have a p.t. job...well...it's supposed to be p.t. but over the last month or so I've been doing more like f.t. I work 8-5, Mon-Wed-Fri and Tues and Thurs I am supposed to work 8-11. Nice right? Well, no, not so much. Every other day just sucks, then add those three hours on the off days? Leaves my head swirling most of the time. By the time I get off work, get home, get things settled at home, dinner thought out and done, things picked up...well, you get the picture because many you do this everyday of your lives. I also am committed to a review site that I do along with two other amazing people. So, lets add reading a lot more than usual.
I'm trying to figure out where you find the energy to work F.T. and still do the extras in your lives. I often find myself anxious. I want to just yell and tell everyone go away so I can write. I can just feel it bubbling over. And until, I can sit with my computer and do just that, I'm not at ease. So, lately I've been staying up later to get at least a chapter done a night. Thank God for my beta reader!!! He sure has been a blessing to me. He keeps me on track, he keeps me in the proper headspace and keeps those sweet words just for me to keep me going.
I love my weekends, and so do my kids. Every weekend they want to see us, spend time with us, as do the grandkids. And I'll say it's truly a blessing. I adore them. But...I often want to say: Can I just have this weekend to write? Then the guilt monster comes along and I say nothing. I'm blessed and throwing that in anyone's face is not something I plan on ever doing. I'll just stay up later on weekends then I ususally do. I'm so thrilled that my imagination does not fail me, cuz wow I've had some amazing ideas appear lately.
Now, as many of you may know, I've been working on a three part series, Behind Blue Eyes. The characters in that story are as much a part of me as my own kids are. After a long discussion with my editor, it was decided that BBE needed to be revamped. In other words, all the hard work that went into its creation is going to be changed. Most of the material will be used but a lot will not be. I can't wait to introduce you to these amazing guys!! Right now I'm working on a few books that relate closely to BBE. Picture this: A clock...okay now imagine the numbers and in the center imagine BBE. That is what I'm working on. Talk about keeping busy? LOL. Each book will be a stand alone but connected, it will be written for M/M readers, and the stories are deep.
Again, I'm begging for more time cuz I have all this I want to do, and finding out that the clock says its time for me to go to bed or I won't be able to get up for work.
AHH!!! There's my solution...Quit the Evil Day Job! That's found time right? haha...now...I wonder if editor would see it that way?? OH for that matter my hubby and the bills....hmm....Okay, off to work now...
So, I live in Denver and I have a p.t. job...well...it's supposed to be p.t. but over the last month or so I've been doing more like f.t. I work 8-5, Mon-Wed-Fri and Tues and Thurs I am supposed to work 8-11. Nice right? Well, no, not so much. Every other day just sucks, then add those three hours on the off days? Leaves my head swirling most of the time. By the time I get off work, get home, get things settled at home, dinner thought out and done, things picked up...well, you get the picture because many you do this everyday of your lives. I also am committed to a review site that I do along with two other amazing people. So, lets add reading a lot more than usual.
I'm trying to figure out where you find the energy to work F.T. and still do the extras in your lives. I often find myself anxious. I want to just yell and tell everyone go away so I can write. I can just feel it bubbling over. And until, I can sit with my computer and do just that, I'm not at ease. So, lately I've been staying up later to get at least a chapter done a night. Thank God for my beta reader!!! He sure has been a blessing to me. He keeps me on track, he keeps me in the proper headspace and keeps those sweet words just for me to keep me going.
I love my weekends, and so do my kids. Every weekend they want to see us, spend time with us, as do the grandkids. And I'll say it's truly a blessing. I adore them. But...I often want to say: Can I just have this weekend to write? Then the guilt monster comes along and I say nothing. I'm blessed and throwing that in anyone's face is not something I plan on ever doing. I'll just stay up later on weekends then I ususally do. I'm so thrilled that my imagination does not fail me, cuz wow I've had some amazing ideas appear lately.
Now, as many of you may know, I've been working on a three part series, Behind Blue Eyes. The characters in that story are as much a part of me as my own kids are. After a long discussion with my editor, it was decided that BBE needed to be revamped. In other words, all the hard work that went into its creation is going to be changed. Most of the material will be used but a lot will not be. I can't wait to introduce you to these amazing guys!! Right now I'm working on a few books that relate closely to BBE. Picture this: A clock...okay now imagine the numbers and in the center imagine BBE. That is what I'm working on. Talk about keeping busy? LOL. Each book will be a stand alone but connected, it will be written for M/M readers, and the stories are deep.
Again, I'm begging for more time cuz I have all this I want to do, and finding out that the clock says its time for me to go to bed or I won't be able to get up for work.
AHH!!! There's my solution...Quit the Evil Day Job! That's found time right? haha...now...I wonder if editor would see it that way?? OH for that matter my hubby and the bills....hmm....Okay, off to work now...
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