New Year, New Quarter, New Blog Post

 Now that the sickness is mostly gone from my house (Dom did end up getting sick like I predicted...) I feel like I can properly say Happy New Year! I'm making 2023 my best year yet! I was already able move some things from my to do list down into my done section of my Kanban board. I can't remember if I shared how my new job changed after two weeks in. Instead of being a para that helped in other teacher's classrooms, I was offered a long term sub position in Kindergarten. I was still able to finish What Was Stolen, but it couldn't be top priority because there were lesson plans, behavior plans, game plans, and back up plans that had to happen first. Unless something crazy happens, I have a week to go and I feel like I'm crawling to the finish line some days. This was how I felt Wednesday Social Media Stuff
In addition to continuing to post here each week, I've decided to focus on two very different social media platforms. I'll be posting twice a week on my Facebook Author Page and Tik Tok. The Facebook Page is tricky because most of my followers are friends and family, but I feel like I can post updates and try things and my audience will usually still interact. I'd like to gain new people there, especially in anticipation for the new anchor series. Tik Tok is harder, but I have gotten some sales from it and I have almost fifty followers despite not really trying. I'm not comfortable with the voice over things that lots of people do, but my most successful Tik Tok was one where I was a little more goofy than all my other ones (Almost 900 views!). That algorithm though...I did one this week that I thought would do okay...and it got 7 views....like even my first Tik Tok did better than that...made a friend in the process at least!

Anchor Series Update
Slowly but surely making progress. I'm blaming getting over being sick, taking care of a sick preschooler, and getting kindergartener's back into a routine for several days where I zoned out and watched a Mario 64 playthrough instead of working. That being said, I hit 10,000 words on What was Fabricated (Book 2) Not sure what I'm doing for a reward yet, but want to do something to keep motivated. As for getting Book 1 into my Google Doc, it is SO slow going, but it's still happening. As of this evening it is at 32,000 words which actually kind of blows my mind because it's only the first (almost) eight chapters and the last two chapters of the book (Because once I got my new computer I was like EFF THAT about writing by hand.) Chapter 8 and 9 are the mid point of the book so I think that's keeping me from wanting to rip my hair out. My plan was to spend a little bit of time of each book everyday and there were a few days that I did, then I got close to 10K so I wanted to reach that goal. Tomorrow is a double down wordcount day in a writing group that I'm a member of so here's hoping I get new words written and some handwriting stuff transferred tomorrow.

I feel like I had more to say but it's after mid night now and I'm tired. Until Next week!

​Kay