If you haven’t noticed, I’ve got a pretty intense writing schedule. The Holver Alley Crew just came out, and The Imposters of Aventil is out in the fall (Pre-order now!), and Lady Henterman’s Wardrobe next year, and… you get the picture. I don’t have a too much wiggle room in there.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t have days where I’m all, “Yeah…. writing. Need to … words… or something.”
I definitely have days where I I whiff it. ESPECIALLY right now, when a book has just come out, and all my brain power is used by “BOOK! OUT! ARE PEOPLE BUYING IT? ARE THEY LIKING IT? WHAT IS HAPPENING?”
This is my fifth book, and it’s still pretty much like the first one. I’ve curbed some of the less-healthy behaviors (refreshing Amazon ranking constantly), but it still is occupying a heck of a lot of brain space. My head is a spinning rainbow wheel.
Procrastination is part of how things go, it’s a natural part of the process. And as much as I try to make progress on a daily basis, I have bad days. I have days where I can’t get my head into my primary project (current primary project: drafting A Parliament of Bodies), and that’s why you have secondary projects. (Though now some of those are in my agent’s hands, and thus I’m on NEW secondary projects– one that’s been a back-burner tertiary project for a while.)
But right now, I’m in that happy-distracted place about the release of The Holver Alley Crew. Have you picked it up yet? Then GET ON IT. Meanwhile, I’m going to get on the writing. Soon. Any minute now.