Shit Has Been Real Lately Missing Self Imposed Deadlines Sucks

Here we are in November!

Where the hell did this year go?

Lately, I have been a little disappointed in myself when it comes to this project. I have been down on myself because I have just not made the progress that I would like to have made by now. Don’t get me wrong, I am nowhere near as bad as George R.R. Martin when it comes to deadlines… I am also nowhere near as good of a writer as he is either, but that is beside the point. My goal was to actually be releasing this book in October 2024…

Well, I blew that!

So where are things right now you may ask, I am halfway through editing as it stands. It has been going, it takes a different brain than the creating part of the story. It is still a creative process for me but has a different focus. I honestly don’t know when I will be finishing the editing at this point. I am making progress on it, and I am enjoying it, but it is moving along much slower than I thought it would. Hell, in my mind I would have been through the editing process within a month… Ha, Ha, Ha. Boy, was I wrong! I think this is taking longer than actually writing of the first draft. I have been forcing myself to just slow down and take the time it needs.

Real life has not helped out much either. We live in Tampa, Florida. It’s been a month of hurricanes and chaos here. That has pretty much brought our day job of owning a mental health practice to a grinding halt. That grinding halt hurts in more ways than can be counted. A hurricane is a big deal when it comes to town and we just had two of them… Just in case you have not seen the news lately. hurricanes result in losing our entire business for a week. Not many businesses handle losing a whole week’s revenue very well. We got to enjoy all of that, and then turn around and do it all over again with the second one. Needless to say, that creates some serious stress and anxiety. Things are slowly getting back to normal, thankfully we did not suffer any damage, but the economic impact is pretty heavy. Picking the pieces back up afterward is always tough. Just when we were starting to see clients again at our office we realized that our water was broken as a result of the hurricane and it threatened to shut us back down again. All of this is to say that nothing was happening editing-wise throughout this entire fiasco. I guess it is hard to get moving creatively when it feels like your life is falling apart.

So, while I am very disappointed in myself for not meeting my own imposed deadline of releasing a book in October 2024 it is not the end of the world. I will keep taking one step in front of the other and moving forward with this project that has been so interesting and fun to do.

On another note, I have also started mapping out book two in the series. I know that sounds crazy when there is not even a book one yet, but things pop up in the mind and we start moving on them. Nothing serious yet, but just some ideas that I am capturing.

P.S. The image above is my location in relation to hurricane Milton.