Writing Plans – June 2025

A new month is here, and new writing goals appear. I had great plans to finish and submit two more stories, but fate intervened. However, three days and two plumbers later, my bathroom and kitchen are okay and I am ready to focus on writing again.

I have worked on one of the stories, but it is not done. I hope to get them finished by the end of this month, but I also have the looming rewrite of my novel. I don’t want to put that off too much longer.

I suppose it is common for people to overestimate how much they can get done. In some ways, I keep overloading myself and am happy when I get something done. Other times, I feel like I need to get real with myself and set realistic goals that are achievable. Problem is, I have ambition.

I do have some balance in my life. I make time for friends and family. I do have a day job that is completely different from writing. I try to have a few hobbies that have nothing to do with writing, or writing adjacent (I’m a big TV and movie junkie.)

I have big dreams for my writing. Last year did wonders for my writing self-esteem and I want to continue the momentum. But writing is such a solitary action and I find myself talking and thinking about writing more than actually writing.

I’m sure plenty are nodding their heads too. I think this is a much more common problem. My solution? I need to find a schedule that I can stick to. Ever since I had to go back into the office, my schedule has been in shambles. It doesn’t help that the days I’m in office rotate from week to week. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful I only go in two days a week, but I need to figure it out. Maybe an hour in the evening? We’ll see. My previous schedule was a morning write and that’s much harder now to do everyday.

Maybe the best idea is to not write those two days and focus on other aspects of the writing life. Work on these posts, create more images, and work on videos for my YouTube channel.

We’ll see. I do my best and figure something out.

In other news, I’m loving Murderbot on Apple+. I watched Andor and loved it too. I’m getting back into the Handmaid’s Tale. I watched the first season, but got busy and didn’t watch anymore. Now that it had the series finale, I can binge watch it. Spoilers don’t bother me at all. I’ve watched full recaps and still watched the show. I find that recappers don’t notice everything and always leave a few things out. Sometimes they are important. Sometimes they are trivial details.

Plus, as a writer, story is rarely unique. If you’ve read the books, you kinda know how things will end. If it is original, like Andor, I’m more interested in how the story is told, not what happens. (Although, with Andor, you know it is building towards Rogue One.) A lifetime of reading has taught me a lot about how stories unfold, so when it is done well, I become a fan.

On that note, I hope everyone is enjoying some good stories.

Happy Writing!