I'm ready to go. I've dusted off my promises to myself about writing schedules and word counts. I've selected a project I started about two years ago that I still feel a lot of juice for. I've reached out to writer friends to arrange meetings and start to be accountable.
I've resurrected the writing schedule that has worked for me in the past -- 5,000 words a week, with the week starting on Friday. I used to have a regular writing group on Thursday night that always left me enthused and bursting to write. I would go to breakfast by myself before work on Friday and get out a thousand words easily. Then I just sailed through the weekend and didn't have that much to do on evil Monday through Wednesday. So I'm going to do that again even though I no longer have my Thursday night group (both of the other writers have published the book they were working on in that group).
So, here I am on Monday night of the first week of my new schedule. I have written 2,867 words so far. That's good. So -- when am I going to find time to produce the other 2,123? I just sent Outlook invitations to myself for Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. An hour and a half scheduled, just like a client appointment. In fact, the name I put in the slot is the writing alias I have used since I was eight years old, when it seemed vitally important that I select a pen name. I'm not going to disclose that name here other than that it has the initials "KAD" (imagine by surprise when I was a partner in the law firm where those were the initials of the managing partner...). Every computer I've ever used for writing has had a "KAD" directory for my writing. I have boxes of notebooks and drafts in my house labelled "KAD" and I have used variants of the name for household computer passwords (to be husband's displeasure). And now I have appointment booked for myself on my office calender with KAD. I hope to treat her with the respect and highest regard I treat any client.
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