13 March 2017

Playing Catch Up

Hello blogging world! Is everyone still out there? Ok, ok, I did post something last Monday (or someone did, at least), but I've been a bit out of it since then. After working all day then running a million errands, I started to feel very sick. I had a fever off and on from Monday night until about midday on Wednesday. Luckily I had Tuesday off work but I ended up having to call in sick on Wednesday, which is my first time for this job (been there almost a year and a half). Anyway, I didn't do anything for days besides sleep and watch TV and cough my lungs out. I didn't even look at my computer until Saturday.

So I've been playing a bit of catch up. I had to finish up the final anthology story edits because I was procrastinating on that forever before I even got sick (even though I literally had 6 things to fix). I still haven't gotten anywhere with other anthology stuff (writing interview questions, writing posts for the joint blog). I'm trying to form some kind of schedule for myself where I work a little bit on it (and other writing stuff) every day.

Speaking of other writing stuff, I've written about 13,000 words of Shiny New Story so far. Named all the characters but no title so far (no surprise there). I didn't do any writing while I was sick so I lost a bit of the drive I had, but I have gotten a little done over the weekend so I'm hoping it will come back.

Before I got sick, my writing drive did shift gears a little and I was suddenly working on Book 3 for some reason (listening to too much Adele). Don't ask. I spent a day or two on that and wrote about 5 pages. Some of the stuff I really like but I can't tell anybody about it because it's extra spoilerific.

As for editing UL, uhhh.....not so much there. I did glance at Chapter 5 but knowing I have to rewrite the second half of it I just said to myself, "I don't want to. Someone else do it."

I'm hoping I get that crazy writing/editing drive back that I had a couple weeks ago. I was somehow able to work on everything old and new and got a lot done. I would love to be able to do that all the time.

But anyway, enough rambling. If you didn't see it before, the other IWSG anthology authors and I have set up a blog tour during the month of May to coincide with the release. If you'd like to sign up, fill out the form below and we'll get in contact with you soon (something else I still have to do...)!

18 comments:

  1. Don't push too hard - you don't want to relapse! :o

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  2. Glad you're feeling better! Hopefully your bug was a mere blip - it sounds positive that you were back to writing over the weekend.

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  3. Sorry you were sick. Don't stress, you'll catch up eventually.

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  4. Take care, rest, enjoy the good moments!
    And, thank you so much for that google form - it's awesome!

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  5. I think I already signed up to help. Someone should look and let me know because if I didn't, I want to.

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  6. It's so hard to be productive when you're not feeling well. Take care. Congrats on all those words and the shiny new project.

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  7. p.s. I'll be doing a month-long promo for the anthology, so I guess I've already signed on for doing that.

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  8. As far as I know, I haven't had a fever at all this winter (knocks on wood), although a cold did knock me out of action for a while. You'll get the writing bug back soon enough; it just has to push out all the other bugs that are working their way through your body right now.

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  9. I hope you do too Sarah! And I hope you feel better soon :)

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  10. That's the first time I've seen a sign up form for the Hero Lost Anthology, so I signed up. :)

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  11. Sorry you got sick, and hope you feel better soon! 13,000 works is very impressive, and it's a lot more than what I've written recently.

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  12. I hear you on the sickness. Last week I took two kids to the doctor, nursed the hubby through an ear infection, and fought pink eye in two other family members. Whew! I tell you what, I'm so glad to have everyone healthy again. Here's to doing what you can when you can and surviving the rest!

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  13. I hope you get better soon! Sickness is no fun. I've got a handful of it plaguing my house too. Yay for getting words down, though!

    On a random note, I tagged you in a blog hop, in case you wanted to participate.

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  14. My productivity has gone down the tubes but I can't blame an illness. The weather, however, is another story.

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  15. Sometimes the body and mind need to take a break to get rested. Too bad when it has to be because of sickness. A pleasant vacation would be better. Oh well, good that you've gotten back from the land of unwellness.

    Arlee Bird
    Tossing It Out

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  16. I'm glad to hear that you're doing better! Keep up the good work.


    www.ficklemillennial.com

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  17. I hope you're feeling better. That's a great word count!

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