A Deadline Is the Best Thing For a Writer

      This post is rather ironic. I titled it after I did not turn in submissions for two writing contests, even though I knew the deadlines perfectly well - I simply forgot about them. A deadline is the best thing for a writer. All writers probably know this. I know this. I am awful at remembering said deadlines, though.
     The reason that this post is so ironic is that I titled this, meaning to write it by the end of whatever week in May that I titled it. I forgot about typing it though and I was too timid to come back here and finish writing the post. I still feel rather awful, but I tend to push those feelings aside, all the time. My main ideal for this blog was to write a few times a week but I cannot meet goals that I make for myself and the blog.
    Since I last posted here I have tried to enter two poetry contests. The contests were both held in the month of April and I neatly missed both. Not because I did not want to be a part of the, but because I was so indecisive about what I wanted to send in that I missed both submission dates. I was rather peeved with myself after the fact because it would have been a great chance to get my work out there, although poetry is not what I truly love to write. I am more of a short story/novel gal, myself. The only deadlines I have been able to meet are the ones that have been set for me in regards to my novels that I write in November. I will promptly be beginning another novel in July for Camp NaNoWriMo called The Spiritualists, which I will actually include information about at some point in July. I have everything plotted out and I am rather impressed with it. It ventures from my normal style of writing, so I am happy.
     I do not know if I am the only one that is awful at meeting deadlines. Jeffrey Moss, one of the main characters of the show "Bells Are Ringing" told everyone, in the midst of one of his many parties that "A deadline is the best thing for a writer. It builds a fire under him.", because at that point of the musical, he has to write two acts of a play that is supposed to finished shortly after that. I really do believe that deadlines can be a good thing sometimes, but if you push yourself too hard you will drive yourself insane trying to finish whatever it is that you are doing.

I will be back on Friday (hopefully) with a post about Pride and Prejudice, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and Jane Austen.