La Bene Vita

Adjusting Priorities

For today's episode of "Self Sundays," I started with a goals check-in.

Quick Goals Check:
  One new novel chapter (or rewrite) per day. Incomplete.*
One short story for "The Bradbury" " Incomplete.**
Two poems for "PromptMaster !"  Submitted.
One review. Canceled this week, but tomorrow it'll be an empty box again.
Complete my "26 Paychecks " Week 3 assignment. Pending.***
Do something with "The Sprawling Ink Society"   Done. See also:
                              "Happy February! Feb. 1 Ink Sprawlers Challenge"  
Organize/prioritize work tasks. It's complicated.****
Run payroll. Done.

*Noveling
No new words, but I did think about it - the story, the characters, the background - while brainstorming ideas for "PromptMaster !" and "The Bradbury" . I also revisited the global story arc (The Druid Archives) and started rereading background stories for my introduction in "The Sprawling Ink Society" .

**The Bradbury
We're closing in on the end of the week. I refuse to fall behind, so I may end up submitting a "See Spot Run"-flavored short that contains all the story elements (protagonist, goal, conflict, antagonist, climax, resolution) just so I get the practice in. Kind of like gymnastics conditioning but without the backflips.

***26 Paychecks
I like to stay ahead, but for this assignment, I'm tempted to linger back and make sure nobody's port gets neglected. The good news is, I just shined up my own port, so the feedback on my recent renovations will be nice.

****Work Priorities
No matter what other things crop up at work, priority #1 is always payroll if it's the 1st of the month, and I completed that on time. After that, the priority order is something I need to pin down, hence the checklist item. BUT two things jumped all the way up to positions 2 (we're being audited by the BWC) and 3 (I finally migrated my new website design, but all the individual pages still need a lot of cleanup), rendering the priority of everything else... well... low priority.

See you tomorrow for Music Mondays, and hopefully to report a completed short story.

Musically,
Michelle