Right now there are actually two whole pages of Rita in the queue. In about a half an hour, this will go back down to one, as the first one – finished and uploaded last week – goes live.
I’ve decided on some rules to try and follow to get my shit back in order here.
1. Start each weekday by assigning eight pomodoros worth of work for the day. That’s about four hours of solid, uninterrupted work. Experience has shown that I tend to only get about half of them done, but that’s still better than the one hour I’ve been managing lately because oh god fuck my work ethic these past few months. These work units will not all be Rita – there’s other things that need doing too!
2. I am not allowed to let my buffer shrink. Every time a page posts, I have to have at least replaced it with a new page queued up. Mega bonus points for having gotten ahead far enough that there’s a replacement plus another page.
3. Once I’ve started rebuilding the habit of “working a lot” start gradually raising my expectations as to how much I actually get done in a day, whether it be by disciplining myself to actually check more of those pomodoros off before the end of the day, or by assigning myself more to do in the morning and still only getting about half of ’em done. Whichever way works best to motivate Impulsive, Lazy Peggy to do what Thoughtful Peggy With A Mission wants to have happen.
Hopefully this will eventually result in me pulling far enough ahead that I can consider things like changing the schedule to 3 pages a week, or putting book 2 or 3 up on Kickstarter early enough that prompt delivery of the book will mean backers get to read it ahead of online readers. Hey, I can dream.
Also it is time to resume aikido and yoga. My rib’s still a little grumpy but it’s largely fine. I was intending to hit up aikido tonight, but I only had about an hour between getting home and the start of class; too soon after about four hours of travel between my hotel in Portland and my apartment. So yoga tomorrow, and aikido the day after. And again and again and again.