Weekly Goals

Late once again with the update. It has become quite a habit, but since I’m working on my goals most weekends now, doing the update on Mondays seems the best way to do it.
The week did turn out exactly as busy as I had presumed. Lots of social activities in the evenings and too many plans in the weekends. With that in mind, everything went pretty well. I snacked way too much during the weekend, but I kept clean during the week. I also didn’t get as much exercise as in the previous couple of weeks, but still did okay in regards to my goal. And writing and reading-wise, things couldn’t have gone much better.


Core Goals

Write, edit, or outline every day: Another success with this one. This marks 28 days in a row where I have either been writing, editing, or outlining. Just a month ago, this seemed impossible. This week, the word count went way down, but that was expected as I was going to do mostly editing.

Finish story for The Lodestar competition: Check. This is reason why I had to focus on editing. There are things that could be tweaked in the story, definitely, but I’m relatively happy with the end results, and I got them done just in time for the Lodestar.

Get exercise: As mentioned, I didn’t get nearly as much exercise this week as in the previously couples of weeks. Though, that was mostly because I came out of some pretty good weeks. I still managed 3 exercise sessions.

Stop snacking: The weekend was pretty rough with two birthdays and what that entails of cake and candy overcoming my limited willpower. I did manage during the weekdays, even during our monthly boardgame night where I usually fall in. So I’m happy about this.

Do vocal exercises: Check. I’m keeping my good streak going.


Stretch Goals

Read short stories: I only read 3 stories, but it was still within the taget.

Stay up to date with Codex: Giving myself double marks on this one. I downloaded the app for Codex, which meant staying up to date with the forums was suddenly surprisingly easy. Also, I actually did end up posting for once, using Codex to get some work for our local SF&F con done.

Do a WYRM review: Well, I didn’t actually send the review, but more on that below. I still consider this a success.

Do another WYRM review: The new setup in WYRM means that reviewing a longer story can be done in one file instead of doing chapter-by-chapter reviews on WdC. This is nice, but it also means that the review I mentioned above is getting delayed, because it will be send off when I have read the chapter in the story I’m reviewing.

Submit short stories: Check. I got two rejections, and got the stories sent out almost right away.