It turns out I am the queen of underestimating how long a task will take. Even if I believe that I can get something accomplished in an hour or a day I will pad it a bit and then somehow I still don't meet the deadline.
If you've been following along you know I am behind on my manuscript because I promised it and forgot that we had a month of blogging. Then I entered a pitch contest with my other manuscript and then I was tasked with reading like authors and have been trying to do that as well. Grossly underestimating how long all these tasks would take.
I ran into my poor judgement of time today when I sat down and set out what I was going to accomplish for the day. There were six items on my list that seemed completely doable. Until a completely unexpected person showed up and I had to work on helping him. Then one item, that I thought would be easy, sucked up a ton of time today and with no real results. The day went on like that and sadly I did not remove any items from my list. So tomorrow I will be a day behind and will have another six or more items to add to my list.
So as I type this my husband just threw in the curve ball. I have to stay home for him tomorrow morning to help our neighbors, since he promised he would but had the wrong week so now I have to be late to work. This is why I end up working nights and weekends to meet deadlines.
I hope you too are not afflicted with my horrible misjudgment of time.
I do know that we are near the end, only 5 days left. Good luck to us all.
Happy writing!
Hello Kat
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to meet you. I always underestimate how long things will take, too.
I can't believe that we only have five more posts to go. I believe I chose the wrong theme, and made the challenge that bit harder.
All the best.
Lovely to meet another Thornton. It is something that you obviously have a passion for which makes it less of a burden.
DeleteOnly four more to go.
Yesterday I felt bad because I did not have any posts for the 6 letters of the challenge, but worked on my post early this morning and now have tomorrow to think of. I wish you luck and hang in there. You'll get things done. http://www.writer-way.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteGood for you. It is a great feeling when you accomplish what you have set out to. You are certainly living up to your tagline about achieving your goals!
DeleteMy writing always takes me longer than I think it will. That's why I've stopped giving myself deadlines at this point. Good luck with the rest of the challenge!
ReplyDeleteI find without deadlines I accomplish nothing. There are too many other things that need to be completed the pull me away if I don't set deadlines and priorities.
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