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100 days of writing, editing, and story-making.

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My arrival in Utrecht coincides with the coronavirus shutdown. The beginning of my six months of freedom should be documented to make me more accountable. I plan to make the most of this time and make up for the last year of general disappointments. I’ll be updating my progress in 10 day lots as opposed to weekly because I’m now running in a different time zone. So look out for my progress reports and see if I either fly or fall đŸ™‚

Alas, I overestimated myself.

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I will be 30 in about five months and my goal of having 10 stories out by then looks to be kaput. I thought it was a reasonable goal, but alas it was too much for me. On a brighter note, I’m getting my writing bug back and have been slowly working on some stories. There is one that I mentioned way back that it might be my best story yet. I had stalled on it but have now written another chunk. But I know this book is far from completion. There are a lot of others that are nowhere near completion and I don’t know when my next publication will be đŸ˜¦ Maybe it will be a case that in a year or two I will end up pushing out a lot of them.

What’s on the horizon for me

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Currently, I’m going over a sci-fi mystery novella. I haven’t finished the first draft and since not touching it for over six months I have forgotten what I had written, however, I know what needs to happen etc. I’m editing as I go to get back into the story. Once finished, I’m not sure if I’m going to go back and edit that shit out of it or go onto finishing other first drafts (I have a bazillion). I don’t think I’ll be publishing another story this year, but who knows.

August is coming up in Edinburgh and that means having only one day off a week and everything being balls to the walls dealing with all the extra tourists. I doubt I’ll have time to write or edit. Afterwards, I should get back into everything.

I’ve bought myself a planner/calendar that shows the entire month so that I can visualise my time and maybe that’ll help me get back into things. I did a similar thing in uni and that helped me keep ahead of my assignments. I could just be the thing to motivate me into getting back my mojo.