One Week To Go...

And the nerves don't get any better, I tell ya!

Just five days before The Bone Thief is released and I find myself unable to write anything else until I know that a) it's successfully out there and b) readers like it. 

I want to launch myself into a new project with gay abandon and I do have some ideas but, I keep telling myself that I don't have time at the moment and I need to just concentrate on the launch which of course is just a load of flannel.

It being NaNoWriMo, otherwise known as November to all non-writers, I feel monumentally guilty for not committing to 1667 words per day for the entire month. I said I would concentrate on world-building instead, which I really do want to but I still haven't found the time to settle on that either.

It's nice to have plans - a sense of direction that you want to go a certain way with your work or that you want to learn a particular skill or branch out in a particular social media direction and I do have plans to make plans for all those things... just haven't quite got there yet. 

The original, original plan was that when both my kids went to full-time school, I would get so much work done. I'd be writing a book a month easily (haha). I would complete the training courses I signed up for. I would improve my social media marketing and the big one - sell more books. 

The actuality has been a few months of recovery from all that lockdown brought us plus the utter writer burnout I experienced beforehand and then limping back into some kind of work ethic. Taking a break is good for you but for me, having a structure in place works better. 

A timetable, a plan, a deadline. Those are the things I need to work well. 

So we run back around to having only a week to go before the launch of The Bone Thief. My author rollercoaster is in full flow going up and down the twin tracks of imposter syndrome and hey, I wrote this brilliant book, waiting to see what will happen. 

I shall write again! 

Claire Buss is a multi-genre author and poet, completely addicted to cake. Find out more about her books on her website clairebuss.co.uk. Join the discussion in her Facebook group Buss's Book Stop. Never miss out on future posts by following me.