We’re finally starting to settle into a good daily routine here at the Vasicek homestead, which is really helping me to make good progress on Captive of the Falconstar. Since Piper usually gets home from work around 4pm, we eat an early dinner around 5pm, giving me about an hour to go write at the library before it’s time to put the kids down for bed. That extra little writing time at the end of the day is absolutely great.
Also, instead of journaling and updating my writing and reading logs at night, I now do that first thing in the morning after waking up, which really helps with going to bed earlier. I’ve found that if I’m on the computer late at night, I usually end up spiraling down a black hole on YouTube, just because I’m exhausted and don’t have any energy left for self-discipline. But if I do all that journal and other stuff in the early morning, I can get it done real quick and move on to everything else that needs to get done.
We are still adjusting to life with three small children. It’s insane how much crazier things become when you go from two to three. When we had our first child, it was definitely a major adjustment, but since there were two of us and only one of them, it wasn’t too difficult. With two, it definitely got more complicated, but really it was just more of the same. As soon as we were outnumbered, though, everything changed. It’s as if we just started living life on hard mode. No breaks. Constant chaos. Always falling behind.
That’s why it’s been so nice to get an hour at the end of the day to work on my current WIP—and work, I definitely have. Right now, I’m about 40% done with the AI draft of Captive of the Falconstar, and somewhere between 10% and 20% of the human draft. At my current rate of progress, I estimate I’ll have a finished, publishable draft by late March / early April. If I can get a chance to do a mini writing retreat one of these weekends, I could cut down that time by as much as a week or two.
So that’s what I’ve been up to. Now, to get a few more things done before the kids wake up and the daily battle with the forces of entropy starts all over again.
