An Update on Progress

There wasn't any!

Well, no, that's an exaggeration. There was progress, but the next chapter isn't ready to go. It's yet to be finished, and yet to be edited, and the long and short of it is that I'm not sure when it will be done and now I'm scared of making a hard-and-fast deadline because I might not make it.

It's been very trying to write recently. Some of this is from real life intervening, but I feel that some is also my own distractability and lack of stick-to-it-iveness. I don't feel like writing when the day begins, and when I do get around to it, I stop too quickly. It's just hard to stay in the zone where I really look forward to putting words on paper.

Does anyone have any advice they could give about this? About how to establish a better schedule, or how to just write more frequently? Am I overthinking it? I'm genuinely demoralized about failing this week's deadline, but I'm not sure how to go about rectifying the problems that caused me to do so.

Sincerely,
Accordant Author