) Scheduling · 2:30pm Sep 11th, 2017
Evidently, I need to change something in my schedule to give you guys content again.
I have always been bad at keeping up with schedules. This has never been more apparent than with recent events. That is not to say that my interests in some things, such as writing, are falling away, but that I still have yet to find that balance that gives me the most of my days.
My first attempt to keep me on track with my writing had been with the progress bars on my front page. Perhaps my interest in seeing them go up would force me to focus on each of my tasks. It was an interesting idea to try to implement. Then, my specials came in, and that idea didn't pan out.
I think my next idea to keep me on track is to start releasing routine blog updates to give you all an idea of my progress and so that you know I haven't forgotten about you guys. I am aiming to force myself to continually think of finishing my tasks instead of taking so long to finish all of them.
As of now, what ends up happening is the following: I think of doing something, and I then procrastinate. I don't believe the procrastination is rooted in laziness, but rather from being tired. I think I've gotten myself into a routine where I am continuously more tired than I would like to be, and so I put it off thinking that I will be more refreshed the next time I sit down to work on it.
Except that time never seems to come. Or, when it does, I have other tasks that desperately need my attention, such as work, paying bills, family junctions, review work, etc.
I know now what the problem is. I am going to bed too late. I did so to try to get more hours in my day to do the things I want to do, but I missed something in doing that. Those extra hours weren't spent being as productive as they could have been. Instead of doing five hours of things being tired, I could have been doing two or three fresh, and thus I could have gotten a lot more done.
I have finally gotten around to starting to fix my sleep schedule, at the very least. I went to bed an hour earlier than I usually do last night, and I feel more refreshed already. This is probably healthier for me, too.
So I'll start going to bed earlier so that I can feel more refreshed, and start giving you daily blogs, starting with this one, so that I can stay focused on all my tasks at hand. Perhaps when I am more rooted in setting a schedule for myself, I can do blogs every other day, or even less, depending on how well I can keep my schedule.
Once I get started on this, things should become easier. I may do sections of the blog so I can keep you up to date with things going on in my life on multiple fronts, rather than just my stories when I work on them or when big, life changing events take place.
Also, I realize I have made you guys wait an exceedingly long time for the specials, and I am really sorry for doing so. 
My only defense is that I wanted to make them the best I could, so I've basically spent the summer learning a little bit about writing. Hopefully it helped. Perhaps you'll see a bit more improvement since the release of Barren.
I will try to get both specials out this week. At least the first chapter of one of them. This is my off week from Reviewing, so I'll keep you guys posted on my word counts on each of them as well as a tentative percentage of completion.
Here's to hoping I can get this new schedule working. I have high hopes for it. 
I'm pretty sure it will be worth the wait.
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It's scary how little I've actually done for my own page this summer.
I've learned a lot from being a reviewer, though, I think. I think I can actually edit my own work now.
I did lose my proofreader, though. So I'm back to proofreading my own work.
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Welcome to the club about proofreaders, My first got very buy, so I had to find another one but I stay in touch with my first one after I found a second one.