My Muse Went on Vacation Without Me (An Update on My Writing)

I have a confession to make, but you’ve probably already noticed the problem.

My confession is that over the last few weeks/months, I’ve become really slack about keeping up with my writing. I haven’t even blogged here for over a month.

Naturally, I have plenty of excuses.

First off, you may remember that Dean and I spent weeks renovating our new house. During that time, we had issues with the tradies not doing the kitchen and bathroom correctly.  After the completion, we spent weeks arguing with them to get them to come back and fix what they did wrong, and to remove items from the final bill for the things that they charged incorrectly.

And if that wasn’t enough, when we left the rental house we were living in during the renovations, we struggled for three months to have our security bond returned to us. We finally had to issue a complaint with the Queensland Ombudsman, and guess what? We received the money a day later. 

And during this time, I also had a painful left arm that left me unable to do much. It turned out that I had several pinched nerves in my neck. I had injections to fix it, and now (so far) I’m back to normal physically, and the stress over the constant emails, form filling, phone calls, and letters has ceased now too.

So all in all, the last three months have had their challenges, including the weather, which is hot and humid, and we’ve had plenty of storms (summer here is in December, January & February).

But now I feel like my life is back to normal with no more fights over money, no stress, and no physical pain. So you should be hearing more from me from now on, and I’ll be back in my writing chair every day.

One good thing is that during this time of turbulence, I’ve sold many books. My most recent statement came a few days ago, and I’m assuming the large increase in book sales is due to the time of year.

But I wouldn’t have sold a lot of books if I hadn’t written them all. And now that it will soon be the New Year, it’s time to make plans for how much writing I’ll be doing in the next twelve months.

I’ve been reading about writing plans (and planning for other things in life too) and how to make a 12-month plan not only doable, but also how to stay on track and on target all year. 

I’ve already made my plan and got started on it, because I thought, Why wait? 

And soon I’ll tell you how it’s working, how much I’ve achieved and how you can do it too.