Some days nothing seems to go your way. I’ve posted thus far about my writing habits and how effective it’s been to have a word count goal and to be structured about my writing life.

Then along came Tuesday May 19th. It kicked my butt, that’s for sure. Baby isn’t feeling well — mom and dad become emotional wrecks.

Then, right as I move to make my transition from working on learning some rudimentary web design skills into writing, the router decides that it doesn’t want to play nice with the cable modem any more. (For what it’s worth, the router says that the modem started it. I sent them both to bed.)

45 minutes later, I’m sitting her trying to motivate myself to write. It’s times like this that I remember some great advice I got in college: “Have a schedule that is set in stone. That way, when something goes wrong, you at least can see where you’ve lost and where you might be able to make it up later.” Sometimes the best thing to do is to cut your losses and try again the next day.

Tuesday, May 19th, you’ve beaten me temporarily. But, I’ll be back. You may have won the battle… wait, I’m trying to avoid cliches.