Yesterday, I was clearly tired and frustrated when I wrote my daily update. Part of my goal in this writing career has been to never let my writing interfere with my role as a father – I do not want to be a dad that my kids never see, clustered in my study and avoiding them while I work on my books – so the time I have to dedicate to this pursuit is limited. When I lose that time, it hurts.
I never should have gotten upset that a little extra time needed for my fatherly duties took away from my writing. That’s the wrong perspective. But it was real at the time, so I’m leaving it there. There are going to be tough days on this journey and I don’t want to sugar-coat that.
Today, I am still working on coaching tasks. I finished the proofreading edit of one project and will be starting the dev edit of another, if I get the time later in the day. That dev edit project is the last active coaching task I have at the moment, so barring another request, it is all that stands between me and getting back to my novel!