Monday Update – August 15

 

And we’re halfway through August.  How did the summer completely pass me by?  Oh well.

Last week was productive.  I got snagged by another wild plot bunny and ended up with another 10k short story that now needs to sit on a backburner until I can figure out what to do with it.

Writing

Cry of the Hawk –

Achieved:  Another 1489 added to the story, and I’m right in the thick of the climax.  That puts me at 29,420, and 13,992 toward my #hotandsticky count.  I suppose I can put my plot bunny toward my hot and sticky count, but I’m not sure that adheres to the rules.
Goal:  Always 3K, until I decide otherwise.

1 Flash story

Achieved – A sad nope to this one.  Those flash pieces are just out of luck.
Goal:  I’ll try again next week.

Everwood Novella –

Everwood is the setting of my short story “Mist Mad” that I released in three parts in July.  Check it out here.  Something ugly is going on in the Everwood, and I’m about to find out what.

Goal:  1200 words

Revising

Cats at Midnight –

Achieved:
Goal:

Seer –

Achieved:
Goal:

Flash story –

Achieved: I finished Amber Soul, so you’ll be seeing that pop up on Friday Flash fiction, some time next month.
Goal:  Despite having not written a flash piece in a while, I do have some drafts in limbo.  I’ll work on one of those.

Website

Maintenance stuff for now, and just playing around with layouts, and widgets, especially on the blog.  In a couple of weeks those big changes I mentioned will appear, and I’m super excited.  Can’t wait to see how they look.

Personal Goals

Dedicate a half hour, three nights a week to sewing –

Achieved:  I actually managed to a get a page done, I think mostly because Bear was out of town a couple nights, leaving me at lose ends.
Goal:  Hopefully I can get the next page done this week

Exercise for at least 10 minutes every day (I know that doesn’t sound like much, but baby steps, and all that)

Achieved: Walks have been hard to get started since Bear and I are on very different schedules.  I did manage a few with Bunny and one on my own.  Hopefully, when Bear’s work schedule calms down, we can walk as a family.
Goal:  Trying for at least a good twenty minute walk each day.

Read 10% each (I’m all about the ebooks) from:

Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads

Achieved: Page 53, and I’m knee deep in 1930s cooking techniques.  I actually found a couple of recipes that sound worth trying.
Goal:  Shooting for page 80 this week.

Carpe Jugulum

Achieved:  On page 35.  Diving into a Pratchett novel really is an adventure, as you try to figure out how all the different characters and their stories are going to come together.

Wish me luck, and good luck to all of you.  Sound off in the comments, and share your goals for the week.