July and August were not such good writing months for me. I got 8,833 words written in July and a grand total of 6,001 words in August. (And the August words were re-writing/adding to a story.)

Why didn’t I write more?

Here are 18 excuses reasons I didn’t write much those months.

1. I was trying to finish up the Bike Trip book, and I was going to write once it was published.
2. I was trying to get Finding Joy written.
3. Dylan’s Story wasn’t finished yet.
4. My brother ended up in the hospital for a few days with an infection and we had the 6 kids.
5. I was trying to decide which Christmas stories I wanted to publish, then I would be able to write.
6. My sis-in-law had baby #7, and we had the kids again.
7. I had to rewrite one of the Christmas stories, so I couldn’t write anything else.
8. I don’t write well when I have another book almost done. And in this case I had two novels and 8 short stories getting finished.
9. We were going to my grandparents.
10. Too many other things were going on.
11. I couldn’t think of anything to write because I hadn’t finished the other stories.
12. I can’t publish books and write at the same time.
13. I got out of the habit.
14. Writing another book while still working on the others didn’t sound like fun.
15. I wasn’t in the mood to write.
16. I had to get ready to teach writing classes again.
17. We were organizing the house, and I was too tired in the evenings.
18. I had no idea what to write!

Okay, so some of these excuses reasons were legitimate, others . . . not so much. 😛 I’m thankful to be getting back to writing.

So, what is keeping you from writing? Do you have as many excuses reasons as I did?

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