by Founding Circle member Tina Holland

One of the things I struggle with and maybe most writers do, is meeting obligations.  Case and point I forgot this one.  It’s been in my schedule and on my Kanban board for over a week and yet last night and 9 pm I assumed I had stuff that could wait until tomorrow and I guess it did.  This post was supposed to be up Wednesday January 12th.  I’m not sure if it will be late or posted another day or maybe next week.

This isn’t an uncommon thing for me to MISS something.   I feel bad when I do and I try diligently not to forget, but SCHTUFF happens.  My stuff this week – I had to finish the last of my self edits and get my manuscript off to my new publisher.   I’m formatting a book for one of my local writing  groups so I was worried about that.  I had a meeting with my critique group on Monday and more and more obligations than I have space on my board.

Maybe I’ve overextended myself, but I don’t think so. I almost always meet my obligations to finish things.   The times I don’t, well it’s probably because of timing, like this past week.  Getting another publisher and a new project out in the world is exciting and my head swims with ideas.   Now that I think about it, most of my book deals take place between December and January so I’m always running around doing stuff, if not physically, then virtually.

I think I just need to make a note to check before I go to bed to make sure that I’ve completed my obligations before my head hits the pillow.