Jaci Dawn

Yes, there is life after NaNoWriMo.

1. I have been editing my story. This entails:

• deleting things I wrote because I was desperate for words
• clarifying paragraphs so they make more sense
• cleaning up dialog
• searching for bloopers
• adding details

2. Work – and by “work”, I mean that day time job that takes up most of my time – has picked up, and I’ve been a bit busy at the office.

3. Work – and by “work”, I mean my outside the office job – has been steady. I painted four acrylic mini animal portraits, made $155.00, and completely ignored my art web site (I only have four followers as it is on that site).

4. I have been studying up on how to make the above mentioned website attract more traffic and improve my odds for making more sales of artwork. I did everything bass-ackwards, so I am learning about SEO several years after putting up the site. I foresee a long month of redoing all the SEO tags on my site. January is coming, and I should have lots of time to work on that.

5. I started work on an old novel that has been simmering in the file cabinet for a couple of decades. I get it out and work on it occasionally.

6. I have been beating myself up because I can’t do it all: blog, write, work full time, paint, make fairy houses and elf sculptures, and search venues to sell my art next summer. Also: plan the garden, because the days are now getting longer and the seed catalogs will be arriving.

We won’t talk about taxes. That has to fit in there sometime between January 1st and April 15th.

What about you?