If you\u2019ve been reading my updates, you know I\u2019ve been struggling with finishing the last few stories of my collection. According to my meticulous plan (LOL!), I intended to self-publish it by the end of May. That obviously isn\u2019t going to happen. So, I\u2019ve decided to shift focus and move it to the fall slot of my schedule, which I\u2019d intended to use for the 2nd volume of my collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, I\u2019m disappointed. Yeah, it sucks. But I feel all this pressure (yes, again\u2026self-imposed) because I\u2019m behind schedule. And if I were to stay on this schedule, it would also push the novella as well. This way, I still keep to the novella\u2019s schedule, the first stage of which (writing) runs from April to early July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The good thing is I\u2019m still working on the formatting for the collection, so once that’s done, that’s a big thing checked off my to-do list. That doesn\u2019t mean there won’t be hiccups (it took me a day to get the table of contents to auto-generate!), but it\u2019s a fun project!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also like that all of this is in my control. Because I know I\u2019m not the only author tired of waiting\u2026waiting\u2026waiting\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve done enough of that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other good news is this frees me up to work on the novella. As I said above, I’d scheduled to start writing it in April, so though I’m still adding the new plot points to my outline, I feel pretty good about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes we have to shift things around, but in my mind, as long as I’m still striving for my goals, these little setbacks aren’t the end of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The latest edition of The Weekly Brew, where I adjust projects and take back control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing"],"yoast_head":"\n