Saoirse--Good luck with the surgery. I hope the recovery is easy, at least as easy as can be with these things.
Tamlyn--Your post, for whatever reason, makes me realize how important these goals are, and the importance of progress over completion. You are making progress of one sort or another on many of yours. That's awesome.
Jaymz--Hello fellow crafter and fiber artist.
I'd love to see your cross stitch sometime. I'm working on knitting a sweater i started for my daughter when she was in third grade. She is now 22 years old. I hope to finish it before any children she might have are in 3rd grade.
BDWilson you deserve an award. I stand in awe of your accomplishments.
AphoticInk--LOL I'm sorry you're dealing with so little stress right now, at least if I read that right! I think you are being very cute, and I think this is your intent, but words on a screen are sometimes mischievous and easy to misinterpret. Anyway, I have some stress I can share with anyone who'd like some--our roof is leaking. The bids that were promised aren't coming, even after followup emails to the various roofers. The bids that *have* come in are, of course, much higher than we think they should be. And it's raining.
PROGRESS:
Anyway--I'm trucking along--I thought I wouldn't make the exercise goal this past week, but I did, huzzah, although the fifth day was only half a workout. I got back to drafting book two last weekend and that was great. I started reading a book and was making my way through that every night, also good, but I can't finish it. I can't. One character was sold as a child into slavery. DNF. Nope, not going there. I mean the whole thing is so dystopic, but I really admired how the author dropped in the science and imagined/extrapolated not-unlikely-even-if-extreme-for-fiction-purposes future scenarios based on current tech. I really admired her deftness at that. I just don't want to spend time with the characters anymore, and I don't like being manipulated with things like child slavery. Too close to home, especially with Epstein back in the news. I did read an unpublished MS since last week that was fantastic and I hope it gets picked up.
[ ] Write two chapters per week on book two, with a 'two chapter forgiveness' for the month
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XX] Week One
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x] Week Two
(Meh--I did write, but was more focused on querying. I don't think I added two chapters.)
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XX] Week Three
[ ] Week Four
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XX ] Re-start querying in or before week ~3 Yes, I can check this off.
[ ] Exercise five times per week
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XX] Week One
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XX] Week Two
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XX] Week Three
[ ] Week Four
[ ] New added goal: Start and finish another published novel; take notes (toward my new year's resolution of learning from 'the greats;' add a goodreads review
I read half and will NF.
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XX] New added goal: Read through an unpublished manuscript of a friend, purely for enjoyment (This has the secondary goal of showing me that sometimes the trade gods get it wrong!)
ETA: Week four is consumed with roof issues--not sure I will meet the goals this week but here's to looking at March!!!