Deadlines coming out my ears!!

There’s an old saying derived from a Robert Burns poem: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.”

Welcome to my month. I (perhaps foolishly) embarked on Camp NaNoWriMo to finish up a rough manuscript for my next Amish Inspirational. This is in addition to four columns and five articles due at various times during the month. And it’s spring, for heaven’s sake. There are things to do outside!

But life has a habit of making the best-laid plans go astray. Today I received an email from my editor at Backwoods Home Magazine, bumping up two deadlines that had (until now) been comfortably distant, but now are both due in April. This means I suddenly have two very significant articles to write in addition to four columns, five shorter articles, and my daily NaNoWriMo word count to accomplish this month. We’re also trying to get strawberry beds built (the bare root plants are on their way), potatoes planted, a significant indoor project Don is working on (more on that in a future blog post), and endless other early spring indoor and outdoor homestead projects. Aarrgh!

This is a long-winded way of saying, sometimes life can get overwhelming. We’ll see what gets shoved on the back burner this month.

Okay, enough procrastinating. Time to get writing. Thanks for letting me whine.