So we’re half way through the year and its got me thinking about some of the goals that I had set myself at the start of the year.  I’m off target with the 1000 words a week.  I rarely keep my diary updated and I am well behind with my emails.  I have got a fair few short stories written and got some ideas down with my co-writer for the novel re-write.  I’ve scribbled down a few other ideas too.

I had hoped to have sent off a short story to a short fiction market but I’m not quite there yet.  I have two or three which i think are strong enough but I need to tweak them a little.

I do worry that I wont hit my 52000 word target for the year but I have signed up for Nanowrimo which I need to be writing 50000 words during november for (I am Mad by the way) But its a challenge I truly want to have a whack at.

One thing I am trying to do is to wake up at an hour earlier each morning to see if I can get some writing done then.  I’ve not written much since May if I am honest so I need to get into some sort of routine.  I know when I get my head down I can easily knock out 500 words in about an hour, an hour and a half.  The more I write the more words I’ll be able to get down in shorter periods of time.  I just need to find that golden time for me when I know I’ll be able to knock out a couple of hundred words without thinking about it too hard, but with it also being reasonable content.  I need to get in the habit of writing during lunch while I am at work as that is quiet time that I can take advantage of.  If I have five minutes I should be using that five minutes to write.  This is a battle I am having with myself as I know that I can get words down, I just need to motivate myself.