Hit Your Deadlines
May 20th, 2009
I am behind on a deadline for my next novel, the first of three I’m writing this year, on top of a couple nonfiction books, a screenplay, and other things I have little doubt will come my way. One of the main rules of writing is to finish what you start, preferably on time.
So, I’m going to go do that and strive to be a better example of how it should be done. Then I’ll come back here and blather on at greater length, hopefully about how I pulled this off. Till then, keep writing!
I know I will. I’m contractually obligated to—and grateful to be so.
Yeah, please let us know how that works out…I am horrible at meeting deadlines. Well, I usually meet them, or come very close, but I pulled more all-nighters in the last two terms of college than in all my other semesters combined (actually I hadn’t before the fall 08 semester) because I’m that bad at getting started on things at a reasonable time. Once something gets filed under “have to do”, whether it’s a school assignment or a story that I’ve wanted to write but end up doing as a school/ficathon assignment, it automatically gets filed under “don’t want to do” too, and then…well, that kind of mental block is hard to break. (Case in point: my undergrad thesis is kind of due on May 31. I…haven’t done a whole lot.)