It’s December so that means its “list season”
Suppose I better crack on with the list……
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With my “out of office” on at the salt mine, I left work full of great creative intentions…..
I had my “To Do” list written :
blog – write and post
Book Baby 5 -write some more; type 10 0000 words
Book Babies 1-4 – promote
Gig review – write and post
It didn’t seem like an onerous list then the sun came out…….
I got off to a good start…..
then I got distracted……
I tried to re-focus with some art therapy….
and I picked up where I’d left off with Book Baby 5…
then may have got distracted again…..
and met some new friends….
The week was fast disappearing…… I sat down again with Book Baby 5….
On Friday I allowed myself a mother/daughter day out with my mum….we had a date with a dinosaur 😉
And by the time I got home from mother/daughter day out, it was after 5pm on Friday and technically my “out of office” had expired….. my week was over…..
But did I manage to tick off all the items on the To Do list?
Yes I did 🙂
Maybe I should be allowed to put the “out of office” on more often!
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It’s rapidly approaching that time of year when lists take over……
I like to think I’m a reasonably organised person in my real world, my work world and in my creative world. (OK, I can be a bit OCD about my lists)
Even on an average day, my world is “post it” driven as I work my way from one reminder to the next.
My laptop frequently has several “post its” stuck to it to remind of anything from a trip to the dentist to promo event reminders associated with my book babies. (There’s 3 on there as I type)
However, as the festive season approaches all too rapidly, longer lists start to over take the small square “post its”.
There’s:
gift lists
festive food lists
Christmas card and calendar lists
You get the picture!
There,there’s the 2018 Gig List to be added to the 2018 Calendar on 1 January. (It’s unlucky to hang the next year’s calendar before the year has begun so the dates need to wait on my list till then)
22 Feb – Brian Fallon
1Apr – Greta Van Fleet
16 Apr- The White Buffalo
This list is likely to grow considerably…….. 😉
Earlier today, I paused to take stock of the “Creative To Do” list for this week:
1- write more of book baby 4
2- promote the Silver Lake series ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coral-McCallum/e/B00VYU1SZ6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_4?qid=1510864732&sr=8-4 )
3- promote my Good Reads giveaway – its running till 3 Dec.(https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/261202-bonded-souls )
4- type up book baby 4 – target to reach 15k words
5- write and post blog
6- prep interview for blog (watch this space!)
I’ll not embarrass myself by confessing to how few have been ticked off……
Then, there’s a second, until now, unwritten list…. “The Waiting To Be Written” list:
1- book baby 4 ( ok, it’s nearly there!)
2- book 4 in the Silver Lake series ( write 2018/publish 2019)
3- next part to Silently Watching short story series ( I have half a plan for this!)
4- next part to The Soul Searcher short story series( eh….no clue what’s going to happen next)
5-next part to the Still As A Statue short story series ( maybe a bit of a clue where this one will end…)
6-next part of The Imp – remember him? (I do know where I am going with it…honest!)
EEEEKK!
Maybe I should start with a wish list…
Dear Santa
I’ve been a really good girl this year (well, most of the time). Can I please have a Time Turner like Hermione’s from Harry Potter so I can conjure up enough hours in every day to get through my To Do list.
Hope you like the milk and mince pie.
Love Coral x
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Coral McCallum 