Ever heard of Parkinson’s Law? Here’s a synopsis: work expands to fill the amount of time allotted for completion. In other words, if you have a week it’ll take a week. If you have two months it’ll take two months. If you have six hours it’ll take six hours.

Today is my deadline for my next book, Primal. I’ll submit the entire rough draft sans epilogue. And it’s no coincidence that its coming down to the last day. It’s Parkinson’s Law. I’m sure I could have finished it a month ago. And I would love to have two more months. The bottom line? It’ll take however long I have! And that’s why I need deadlines. I hate them. But I need them. Especially because I have perfectionist tendencies.