I just finished my time sheet for client payable hours at the day job.
Total hours worked this week: 70 hours.
How much time did I work on my novel revision?
Total hours worked this week: 2 hours.
And those two hours? That happened late last night when I had this epiphany about a major scene in Act 2 (even though I’m ONLY supposed to be revising Act 1) and I had to jump out of bed at 12:30 am and write it all down—I LOVE it when that happens!
Would it be nice to have 70 hours of writing instead of working at my day job?
Duh!
But oh well. Such is life. I’m working for a living.
But you know what? I should stop complaining. I am blessed to be working. I have friends who have been out of work most of this year—who are struggling to pay their bills and feed their families.
The fact that I’m too busy at work is a problem some people would love to have. I’m very grateful to have a job in this economy—a good paying job—which is an extra bonus.
I’m going to see if I can squeeze in some hours next week. My goal is 5 hours during the week for revision. That’s just an hour a day. And with my current schedule, maybe 11pm until midnight will work.
Worse case, I could resort to EARLY MORNING WRITING (that’s me the night owl screaming “Noooooooooooo!” in the background, LOL).
But seriously, this isn’t a sprint. The main goal is to just be involved with the novel revision daily—even if that just means I read and revise a paragraph. I will be happy. No need to beat myself up if I’m too tired from work to do a revision. Sleepy and cranky won’t produce the kind of result I’m looking for here.
Small steps equal progress.
