author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

I made some. One of them was, "Devise a writing schedule with great specificity, and stick to it." This post is to announce my having done the first half of that.

It goes something like this:

1. Four days a week (Tue.-Fri.),
2. write a 6-hour work day,
3. which includes
   • blogging gigs,
   • fiction,
   • and paid content writing.

In practice that should come to a couple Examiner articles, a Demand Studios article or two, and a good solid 2 hours minimum toward the submission-for-publication of short stories, novels, and poetry.

The time spent on blogging and content writing can shift. The people paying me to blog and write articles can shift. But the fiction has to happen. It absolutely does, and for no less than 2 hours a day. It's what it's all about, after all. So I'm trying to put it closer to the beginning of the day, to make sure it happens. Or at least to change the order of tasks around every day so that no one thing becomes The Thing That Never Happens. (About this, more later. Like, later this week. Probably.)

As to the second half of that resolution... well. Tomorrow is Monday. A whole new week. A whole new week plus an extra day because Abbondanza has not yet called its volunteers back to the farm for the spring. Every week is a chance to start fresh! And so I shall.

That blogging once every work day? Blogging here? I'd like to get back into that too. Consider this a new start.