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Happy Autumn, Everyone!

My goals for last week. . . last month. . . pretty much the entire summer went untouched. Like a splinter too deep to remove easily yet visibly encased in your skin, my unfinished manuscript painfully remained under the surface of my thoughts daily for months while I continually avoided the momentary pain necessary to remove it. Just as I would need to ask a friend to “operate” with a needle and tweezers to pry the splinter from my body, I probably should have engaged with other writers who might encourage me to pry the characters and their stories from my mind.

Egads! Please excuse the cringe-worthy simile. . . and my extended absence from the forum. Rational Me knows what I need to do: commit to writing by making it a top priority instead of an “if I get these 42 other things on my To Do list done then I’ll work on the book” thing; and seek support and accountability from other writers. I desperately want to complete this novel. Why does Real Me resist doing the simple things to achieve that goal? Aargh! (If I’d spent as much time writing this summer as I did waging my futile war against weeds, I easily would have made my self-imposed September 22nd deadline!)

With the start of a new season of life, I pray Rational Me will prevail over the ever-busy-but-unproductive ADHD Real Me and finally focus on completing this manuscript by, let’s say, December 22nd.

This week’s goal: Reread/revise/edit the first five of the ten chapters I wrote last spring.

Just as I would need to ask someone