Winter Blues

Winter is the worst time of the year for me in many ways. Mostly though, it's in regard to motivation. The lack of sunlight hours makes me want to be lazy, sleep, and do anything other than what I should be doing which, right now, is working on GEMMA. I know what I want to do, I know how I need to do it, it's just getting the motivation to do it that's the problem.

I can find a million other things to do. I could be sleeping, watching movies, watching the television shows I've missed. Maybe I should call my mom for the fifth time today. Or, what about cleaning out my inbox, or googling myself or working on my household budget. Maybe I should job hunt...

You see? The list just goes on and on. So my goal for this coming week (starting tomorrow, of course, because I've procrastinated all week this week, why not tonight as well), is to write every day. I'm serious. I need a draft of Chapter Two by Friday PM because I'm going to my niece's dedication next weekend and wont' be able to write at all Saturday or Sunday. So, that's my goal. That, and critique a story that's been sitting in my inbox since October. And run. And edit my short story, "Mountain Done Called Me Home."

So, in the spirit of writing, I will update every day this week, starting tomorrow, in hopes of motivating myself to write. I would hate to have to write "I didn't write anything today. I suck," every day this week. That would be a total morale-killer.