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January 19, 2023
2023 Q1 Goal Setting
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog.
It’s a new quarter, which means it’s time to set some new goals, so let’s jump straight in.
Here we are back at the Kanban-style Trello Board. If you’ve been here a while, you’ll already be familiar with this, but for those that aren’t, I use Trello as a digital sort of Kanban board. I still have categories for my tasks, but I don’t use the “to do, doing, done” modifiers. They all just stay on their lists and I modify the cards within them ...
January 12, 2023
2023 Yearly Goal Setting
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog.
It’s a new year, which means it’s time to set some new goals! I’ve already decided on my focus word for the year, which is ACTION. I have a lot on my plate, so let’s jump straight in to my recap of what I’m working on, and then I’ll do some goal setting to plan for this year.
I think my count right now is 23 novels. Let’s look at each of them.
Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding UmbrellaOblivion Duet – New Adult Urban Fantasy – Angels and Demons...January 5, 2023
The Power of Action: A Comprehensive Guide to Productivity and Time Management
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. Today I am letting you in on my focus word for 2022.
If you’ve been here a while, you know I’m big on goal setting. For the past few years, I’ve been choosing a single word to represent the type of things I want to hone in on and cultivate in my own life. Essentially, you choose one word, phrase, or song, and use that to focus your intentions throughout the entire year. I call this my focus word, and it has helped shape and define my path.
Why ...December 29, 2022
2022 Yearly Goals Recap
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. We’re ending out another year, so it’s time for another goals recap post.
I started out the year with a ton of projects going. If I was being honest, way too many projects going. This is a major problem. In writing terms, when you have too many plot threads going, the best thing to do is actually to start to close them one by one. In going with my focus word, FEARLESS, I decided I was going to be deliberately closing some of the open tabs in my b...
December 22, 2022
2022 Q4 Goals Recap
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. We’re ending out another quarter, so it’s time for another goals recap post.
If you remember from last time, I set some goals at the beginning of Q4. As a refresher, they looked like this.
Now, my Trello board looks like this.
As a reminder, this post comes a few weeks before the end of the quarter because I still have a yearly recap to also look over, and there might be more progress on these before the quarter officially ends. Let...
December 15, 2022
2022 Focus Word Recap
Fearless – What I Wanted – Previous Words – What Actually Happened
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Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. I’ve been talking this year all about genre and about the major and minor genre categories that we see and can use as writers. We’re coming to the end of the year, and every year since 2018 I have picked one word to focus my goals around for the entire year. Now it’s time to assess this year’s...
December 9, 2022
Year of Genre Recap
Genre Definition – Folk Tales – Poetry – Drama – Nonfiction – Fiction
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Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. I’ve been talking this year all about genre and about the major and minor genre categories that we see and can use as writers. We’re coming to the end of the year and I wanted to give a giant recap of all the things I’ve taught about this year. If you are looking for a more in depth explana...
December 4, 2022
Things that Aren’t Genre
Genre Definition – Misconceptions – MicroGenre – What’s the Point
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Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. I’ve been talking this year all about genre and about the major and minor genre categories that we see and can use as writers. We’re coming to the end of the year and you may have noticed that ther’s a lot that we haven’t had the time to tslk about yet, so I want to address that now. Let’s get...
November 27, 2022
Beat Procrastination
How I Got Here- Procrastination Habit – Beat Procrastination – Every Day
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Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. I’ve been talking this month about NaNoWriMo, or the National Novel Writing Month. Even in years where I have no specific project or aren’t wholly committed to the challenge, I often still love talking about my experiences with the entire NaNoWriMo month. This week, I want to talk about ...
November 17, 2022
A Deeper NaNoWriMo Participation
Definition – Home Region – Writing Communities – Write Ins
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Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. Last week started the National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, and even in years where I have no specific project or aren’t wholly committed to the challenge, I often still love talking about my experiences with the entire NaNoWriMo month. This week, I want to talk specifically about things you can...
