This has been a very mixed month. From a day-job and business perspective it’s been a great month. I had a client go-live and apart from some initial hiccups it’s been a very smooth experience. So smooth that as we move into April we are already starting to plan how to increase the volume.

On the writing and publishing front, it hasn’t been so productive – possibly because the work events not only took up time, but also because they required a huge amount of mental effort. By the end of each day when I typically do a big piece of my daily writing I’ve been too mentally exhausted to focus on the story, or what the characters want to do next. The result is that as of the middle of today, I’m still five hundred words behind where I was in February, and a long long way from my targeted word count for the month.

The one benefit is that I’ve managed to work out some story blocks in my head so when April begins I can do a reset and move forward. I also wrote a short story for a magazine that hadn’t been in my plan. It’s a themed magazine and the March theme just happened to resonate enough that before I knew it, I’d written a thousand words to start it off. Then it stalled a little before a burst in the past few days which let me meet the submission deadline.

At one point in the past week, I was leaning toward saying good riddance to March. Now I’m a little more relaxed and I’m okay to say farewell to March.