Summers suck!

Ok I am quickly finding out the summers I hate here in the desert can also ruin my writing and schedule. I started writing Funny Ties in February and was onto the editing phase by late April early May. I would take a forty minute walk every night around 5 or 5:30 and be home by 6pm where I could dedicate an hour or two to writing before dinner.

It was perfect, it is the desert so it was never too cold 60-70 degrees and it allowed me to run chapters through my mind and when I got back from my walk I was all primed to write. The words flowed from me and it all went swimmingly. Well it's no June and that schedule simply does not work as at 5pm it is easily almost 100 degrees and not ideal for a walk. I tried to change up my schedule to make up for the summer and write around 4pm and then go for my walk closer to 7 or 8. But that left out the whole creativity process my walk allowed me.

I spent my normal hour and a half writing on Wednesday and then went for my walk and the moment I got home I had to go back to writing as I had a great idea for a chapter. So now my writing is coming in bursts, I am having to write ideas down that I had and write it the next day or taking extra time to write and it is stunting me a little. The process doesn't seem as clean and as beautiful as it did in February.

I wonder if other writers have this problem with the weather and seasons disrupting them and stunting their routines that ends up effecting their creativity.

Summers suck, too hot to begin with and now they are adding insult to injury.

Manuscripts

Today was the day that I printed my first manuscript and it makes me a little giddy despite the cost. It cost me almost $50 to print and bind two manuscripts but it was well worth it because just looking at it you can say hey that's my novel. Now my wife gets to have a go at one of the copies with a red pen as I enter the last stages of editing and getting ready to query literary agents.

Even without the binding and adding a nice protective plastic sleeve to the front and back each copy will end up costing around $17 to print. So depending on how many agents want to see a copy of the manuscript that can get expensive in a hurry so I loving the idea of single page query letters and only having to send manuscripts to agents who are really interested in the book.

But just looking at that pretty bound manuscript you can't help but feel a sense of accomplishment.