Kinetic Writer

Summary: I did worse than last week.

No, I did not meet my writing goals. I wrote on Monday, had a really great story idea that I fleshed out on Tuesday, and that was it.

I caught a virus from hell and was feeling tired and crappy most of the week, though I still could have disciplined myself better. I’m sure a psychologist could diagnose my lack of self discipline with a “she doesn’t respect herself enough to respect her goals” line. It is interesting/sad that I have much less of a problem accomplishing tasks when I am answering to someone else.

The good news is that I accomplished a lot of other things that were sitting on my to-do list while I was procrastinating. Among other things, I cleaned the house, researched new laptops (my computer problems are only increasing), cooked some awesome cashew chicken and noodles one night, read portions of a few anthologies and non-fiction books for research and self-education, and assembled all of my RSS feeds into Google Reader.

I also spent some quality time at the local too-small library (I’ll be voting YES on that bond tomorrow) and overheard a teenager on her cell phone complaining about the way one of the librarians treated her. I followed her all casual-spy-like to the children’s room where she had arranged to meet a different librarian to file a formal complaint. I found a shelf of children’s books suitable to hide behind while eavesdropping (I admit it! I was curious! And hey, it’s a public library!) and I ended up being more interested in the books in front of me than the conversation they were having. In fact, I checked out a few books from that shelf that just might help me get moving on one particular story I’ve been ignoring for a while.

So I did worse than last week in regards to my writing goal, but it was not an entirely unproductive week. Next week, though… I want to say that I accomplished my goal. Note to self: remember the desire you are a feeling right now to accomplish that goal and make it happen!