Today I had a great idea. I shall blog about NaNoWriMo. I shall do this daily.
NaNoWriMo shall give me plenty to write about.
Blogging daily shall set up good habits.
Great that I’m starting on day 2. Not day 1.
Anyway. I’m a sucker for challenges. I need the accountability. So NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) sounds good to me. Even though I don’t want to write a novel.
I’ve also signed up for the 52 week Picture Book Challenge.
And to keep me fit, I signed up to run 1000km in 2018.
The end of the year presents a rather large and looming deadline: 52 picture books, 1000km. And of course, I am hereby behind on both.
And now I have NaNoWriMo and my daily blog post.
So, I made one of those plans that’s easy to make late at night.
I SHALL RISE EARLY (and write, and run, and work).
I can only assume that I thought 1 hour before 7am = roughly 15 human hours. I mean it does, because sometimes no-one else wakes up. So, I have some time to myself. But I can distract myself almost as well as my kids can.
Here is the sequence of events for the first 2 days of November.
November 1
5.15: wake up. Oh no. I slept through my alarm or set it for PM. Damn! There’s my whole day stuffed up. I might check how long I’ve slept in. OHMYGOD. OHMYGOD. OHMYGOD. It’s only 5.15. I can sleep for a whole 40 minutes. 40… glorious… minu…. <snoring>
5.55: what the hell is that almighty noise? Slap around on the floor looking for my phone. Turn it off. I’ll just have a 5 minute nap. <snoring>
6.10: Must go to toilet.
6.15: Must find running gear.
6.20: “Activity started” says Runkeeper
7.35: Red faced person who can’t breathe thinks she will now quietly retreat to write 500 words. Instead write about 20, before having to google a bunch of stuff I promised my son I’d google to get him to go to bed previous night.
8.05: Must shower/break fast in order to participate in paid employment.
22.30: Write some words that resemble a PB manuscript, but not a good one. Possible good idea though.
23.30: Set alarm for 5.55 certain that an early start will solve everything.
November 2:
5.55: Who? What? Me? Oh. Fumble. Find phone. Turn off alarm. 5 minute nap time.
6.00: Get up. Look for notepad. Look for pen. Walk through whole house and backyard looking for “THE SPOT”.
6.15: Sit down in the THE SPOT (see below). SERIOUSLY.
6.20: Prompt word= Patience. Look through notepad. Find idea that I don’t hate. Write 200 words. By 150, there is a child reading over my shoulder commenting on all the things.
7.00: Decide paid employment deserves my attention.
20.30: Back to THE SPOT. Why?
20.35: Labour through remaining 500 words (waaaaay too long for a PB). Again, not brilliant, but don’t hate the idea.
22.00: Remember daily blog idea. And so we come full circle.
Off to set an alarm for the morning. Later.
