Mental Meanderings

"If I had an extra hour..." [Meme]

Michele of Writing The Cyber Highway (http://writingthecyberhighway.blogspot.com) has been tagging me for these meme's but I keep putting them off. No longer! I must respond and challenge my other blogger friends to reciprocate.

First, "If you had an extra hour each day, what would you write?"

I honestly don't know. I DO have an hour in the day I could dedicate to writing something specific but I don't. *hangs head* There are so many projects I'd like to make more progress with and there never seems like enough hours in the day to accomplish all I set out to do.

I suppose if I wanted to focus on my primary writing goal it would be:
Finish writing The Flight of Torque (and its sequels)
Having said that, why aren't I dedicating more time to finishing this book? I joined Nano *plays Doom music* because the 50,000 word challenge is just right to round off this book. I've already written almost 50,000 and am about half way. It's taken me almost a year. If I round out November by writing the last half I'll have written the first draft in a year. A shockingly long time to write something I could have finished months ago.

What else might I write? I might put the daily time toward freelance articles. The kind I can make money from. That would be nice. But unfortunately, if I had time to WRITE these articles I still need time to research markets and submit them.

I might dedicate this time to blog entries. That would be a fantastic way to spend an hour each day writing. I already do write entries most days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) Each entry takes about an hour to write and another hour to polish, link up, HTML decorate and post.

With an extra hour I could dedicate time to writing more poetry. I haven't written a poem in months and I miss having a creative outlet expanding my archives. I've been putting together Nature's Sonnets and I'd love to add another ten to fifteen sonnets to this collection. I could definitely put an hour a day to this task.

Looks like I need an extra dozen hours in a day for all of these projects I'd like to focus on. These are after all just writing projects. I haven't included the other things I'd like to get done each week like reading and commenting on blogs, researching markets, submitting, client searching, editing, emails, reading books, taking courses, joining group events and online discussions... The list really could go on and on.

So, now I ask you, "If you had an extra hour each day, what would you write?"