Time Keeps on Slipping (slipping) into the Future

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You know, sometimes, when you track your energy? If I do it early in the day I'm going to give it my all. If I do it about now (1 pm - 3pm) this is the time of the day I really, really lag. So, here I am today, trying to snag my writing time right now. And I've managed to read through yesterday's stuff so far, and think okay, this is where I should start.

You might be saying to me, well, what are you doing here, writing at ye olde Writer Tamago?

I'm maximizing tomorrow's writer time, which will be morning time in part. And I'm also going to talk about goals and time.

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You remember about the post about getting organized? No? Well, here's a brief refresher. I set a goal to make a chapter revision a week. Yup, been making that goal. And keen to stay on that. There comes a point in the writing process when I can plan, and the combination of goals and time is a heady potion.

A trap many artists fall into is overestimating what they can do in a given amount of time.

At this point, I'm not talking to you if you're a writer who wants until a week before the deadline, and then makes a glorious kamikaze effort to hit that deadline, avoiding life's little annoyances like sleep and going to the restroom. I got nothing for you. I've never had anything for you, even when I've taught your ilk, except the usual advice, said in a horrified tone of voice: "Don't do that!"

I won't judge you. I got nothing to say to you, though. This is not the journal entry you're looking for. I just don't have your crazy adrenaline-induced stamina, you wildcats you. You go and live on Snickers bars. Let the wrappers fall where they may as testament to your hubris.

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I'm talking to those of you who plan to write War and Peace before breakfast.

Author: I can write that novel in six months. Sure, it's a 100K monolithic re-envisionment of the epic fantasy from the cultural stance of an imaginary amalgam of Latin and Sumarian culture told in the style of James Joyce, but piece of cake.

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