Deadlines, Oh Sweet Deadlines.

I’m in a little bit of an OMG moment right now LOL. I have a book due on the 15^th and a book due on May 5^th. Yes, I’m a bit crazy, but I’m going to get it done darn it. I’m writing every day, sometimes to the point my eyes hurt and I need to walk away.

I write quickly thank God. I can do around 5,000 words a day and be okay. Some days I can only get to 3k, some days I get to 7k. It really depends on the scene for me these days. My May 5^th deadline also marks the end of the craziest few months of my life. You see, that deadline is for Dreams of Ivory (Holiday, Montana 5), the last of my Holiday series and the last of my month-to-month releases. Yes, when Dreams of Ivory hits shelves in July, it will be my 10^th release in 10 months. And if you include my two volumes of Redwood Pack books, it’s my 12^th upload/release/tour in 10 months.

OMG.

I hadn’t planned on doing that to myself at first, but then I decided to write a Holiday series that needed to be out during the month of its holiday and well…yeah.

I’m at the last two books of this crazy thing in terms of writing and it’s taken its toll on me. I can’t wait to have a little breathing room between releases. *cough* That means every other month for me, rather than every month LOL.

Now, not all releases were full length books. A few of them were around 40k words, so it’s not like I’m too crazy.

No really. I’m not.

I’m a firm believer in quality AND quantity. I might have written many books one after the other, but I’ve also made sure I was proud of my books. There’s a difference I think in that and just shelving them out like a product I don’t care about.

Maybe that’s why my deadlines freak me out and egg me on. I might have to write tons during a day, but I’m proud of those words. *cough* Usually after edits LOL. And copy edits. And revisions.

I already have my April and May releases written, edited, and formatted and ready to go. My June release is almost done and about to be sent to my editor and my July release is going to be on the table soon.

I’m also going to Florida on April 11^th to meet up with my CP and business partner, Lia Davis, to work on our series. So yes, I get a mini vacation AND it’s a working one.

I can’t wait to relax on the beach and write.

Yes, writing can be relaxing. LOL

So yes, my deadlines have been a bit much recently, but they won’t always be that way. What about you? Do deadlines help or hinder you?

What about your writing times? How do you manage what you want to do and what you need to do?

~Carrie Ann

www.carrieannryan.com

Sorry for the Quickie!

What have I been up to in the last month? Well let’s see. I gave birth to our darling little daughter. Teagan arrived 4 ½ weeks early, but is thriving and growing like a weed. It was scary going into labor so early, but it all worked out.
Other than taking care of a newborn, I’ve been busy working on a deadline. I have a contract for a handyman story. It’s like one of those home improvement shows you’d see on the Home Improvement channel. I’m just about done with self-edits and hope to have it in my editors hands by Monday. They’d had originally hoped to have it to final edits by Aug 19th, but the early arrival slowed things down a bit. lol Oh well, nothing I can do.
So this post is going to be brief because I have to go back to my writer’s cave while all is quiet and finish as much as I can.
Until next month!