Derailed

This post is mainly about being derailed writing-wise; or, more importantly I suppose, fighting back from situations that would derail most people. Here's how my week went.

Monday
I had planned to do some story work on a project on Monday. However, I have a full time day job. And at said day job, something got dropped into my lap that needed top priority. It was so urgent, in fact, that I knew I was going to lose my lunch break. This meant no story work.

However, I do have a writing partner (yay!) and he worked on the screenplay on Monday.

I got home from work and we went over the plan for our Kickstarter video. We're using some of the characters from the original audio show and asked them if they'd record something for this (they happily agreed), so I did a pass on that script and we got that sent out to our voice actors. That was all good and I had to rest easy that at least something got done.

Tuesday
On Tuesday I was awakened by one of my cats moaning in pain. If you've ever heard a cat moan, it's kind of unsettling. So at 6:30 a.m. I was driving him to the emergency vet. Sigh.

I left him there and I was only a little bit late for work. The same project was going to be taking up a lot of my time on Tuesday as well, unfortunately. In fact, everyone was so pleased with the work I did on Monday, they gave me more. Being competent is a dangerous thing.

I also had an appointment on my lunch break. So that day was also shot for writing, but I knew that going in. I'd kind of planned for this, and I had printed out some e-mails related to the writing project so I could at least review them at the doctor's office, but instead I spent my time sending cranky texts out to my husband about how crappy the day was. I did manage to complete the preliminary registration for our Kickstarter campaign. I also had an appointment after work, and then I had to pick up my cat, who was now fine, but a $700 bill doesn't make you feel all that much better about it. -_-


Wednesday
Wednesday and Thursday were supposed to be my days for the screenplay. Plans changed though, because Jeffrey had time to work on the screenplay that day, and I really wanted to finish up my story work that I'd planned for Monday. So I wrote up the story stuff on my lunch break and I came up with some pretty cool stuff, if I do say so myself. Finally, I was able to check something off my writing to-do list!

Thursday
Thursday was starting to worry me. Some high profile person was coming to the office and I was going to have to keep an eye on him. I was hoping I wouldn't lose my lunch break again. I was also given even more project work due to my awesome performance Monday and Tuesday.

I very nearly did lose my lunch. I didn't end up taking a break until 3:45 p.m. But I finally managed to get the screenplay open on my laptop and I threw myself into writing an action scene. I had 5.5 pages done before I got a call at 4:20 from another manager asking for an impromptu meeting. I was thus at work until 6 p.m. -_-

Jeffrey had spent all day assembling our Kickstarter video! I was very excited about this. Most unfortunately I had another meeting to attend and I didn't get home until 9 p.m., at which point I was less than coherent, having been on the run all day long without anything more than a ten-minute break. We argued about the video for a while, then I settled down and we edited it together.

We got to bed at midnight.

Friday
So here we are. It's Friday. I'm planning to work on the screenplay on my lunch break again. My boss is blissfully away at a conference, so I feel like I can relax a little bit. And I'm pretty proud of what we accomplished this week, despite all of the crap life threw our way. We didn't give up.

Looking back on the week, the only day that I lost was Monday really, and I gained Friday, which I hadn't planned on. Usually Jeffrey and I go out for lunch on Fridays but Jeffrey didn't have time (did I mention he has a part time job that he does from home as well, in addition to running our audio production company)? So basically, I lost absolutely nothing in terms of writing plans.

How's THAT for awesome?

And Kickstarter approved our campaign! Yay! We'll have to finalize all the details and we're waiting for a little bit of concept art to add to the video and Kickstarter page, but it's definitely coming soon. :)