Well we are at 32 weeks in and the only thing I want to do is scream internally. Things are getting real.

We are now past viability but the stress hasn’t gone away. Of course it would be too smooth sailing to assume future offspring intends to behave. We keep finding protein and blood in my pee. Doesn’t help that I am starting to get a headache so now we are being extra careful at the moment. Because the word preeclampsia is being whispered “out of earshot”. So that’s not fun to be monitored for.

I am feeling the exhaustion setting in, but we expected that.

Offspring is growing so that’s at least some reassurance.

There is so much to get done and so little time.

I suppose it was going to eventually happen. With a cross between being exhausted from hormones and just being plain exhausted by growing a human my writing mojo has really suffered.

Now I am at the point where I desperately want to get back into it but don’t know where to start.

I know I can’t be the only one to ever feel this way. Especially with the baby stealing all those brain cells it feels like.

Maybe a mental recap might help.

Where abouts was I?

Well I stopped in the later third of the first draft so the to do list feels a bit long for my liking. However, that being said it probably has a massive impact that I left it on a scene I am not 100000% sure how to write or how I want it written.

So how could I get back into it?

I suppose that is a million £ question. I might try re reading the last chapter, look at the notes I currently have for the chapter I need to write and go from there.

What do I really want to be writing right now?

Honestly I think I wan to write a bit of book 2 for the big project. I might actually make that the reward for finishing draft one and having a brief go at draft 2 to make it look a bit prettier. Then I could give myself a little break from it and write some of draft 1 of book 2 on the big project as a reward, maybe a few chapters.

Do I have an idea of writing plan?

Oh I could make one of those? That’s not the worst idea to be honest. I could plan what’s left for this project. Tick off some “reward chapters” and then plan the spin off to the project I am working on.

Yes I said spin off. I have an idea for a side character to get their story told a little.

What about querying?

Well, lets get draft two and an early beta or two in so that when I attack the next drafts I will know what I am really going to focus on.