AFTER ACTION REVIEW
1) I have been working on 4thewords everyday. The quests are helping me want to do writing actually every day and the fact that there is a time to get the words written in, which is pretty leisurely, is actually fantastic. It allows me to go and make dinner at the same time as writing, but also to make sure I come back to the writing before the time limit. Before this I would have said, "well I guess it's dinner time" and watched a youtube video instead. I'm pretty sure I'll be keeping to my minimum goal for the month of 25k total. Right now I'm at 22/25, so pretty well. 2) Complete and the shipping confirmation email arrived! The photobook will be arriving sooner than I expected, so that's a pleasant surprise! 3) Did read some of the travel novel during lunch. 4) Still not quite up to 8k a day, but close. My knee has been acting up since the weather changed. I think more walking might help it, but so it goes. Trying to find the exercise balance between walking in the weather and adventure ring while doing NaNo. INTENTIONS/MINIGOALS 1) Finish out NaNo with 25k by doing 4thewords every day. 2) Retrieve photobook and start to show it off! 3) Read more of travel novel. 4) Adventure ring every day while traveling.
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AFTER ACTION REVIEW
1) I did start doing 4thewords again and it has absolutely been helping me get more words in. I didn't get to the quite lofty goal of 15k, but I did get 5k and have started a forword momentum again which feels promising. While I know I could have gotten more writing done I'm much happier having a cleaner house and food cooked for the week and otherwise not overworking myself. I'll continue to make a good effort, and I think I've made my peace if I don't win NaNo this year. Of course there's always a chance the motivation hits me last minute and I do some last minute rushing. But we'll see how the cards fall. 2) Complete! Waiting for the package to be delivered. 3) Done. I'm about 100 pages into the book. It's honestly an ideal book to read when doing NaNo because the chapters are so selfcontained. It's quite easy to read up to three, then I want to go do something else anyways. 4) I totally didn't hit 8k today due to the rainy muddy slushy weather. Yesterday was quite close. Friday was only ok. I'm personally feeling better, so I think that this will be easier to do now. INTENTIONS/MINIGOALS 1) Do some writing on 4thewords every day. The minimum goal is 7k, which would bring me up to 25k total. A reasonable goal would be 2k a day which would bring me to 30k. Then there's the unreasonable stretch goal of 6k words a day. We'll see where I land. 2) Complete! Quite glad to have it done and looking forward to showing it off. 3) Read some more of the travel novel. 4) 8k a day until the Wednesday checkin. After that will be adventure ring stuff while traveling. A lot of my intended progress was sidelined this week by a sudden and horrible sickness that hit on Tuesday. After emptying my stomach I called into work and slept for about 24 hours. After that I didn't have the mental energy to do writing or the physical energy to do the adventure ring. I'm still recovering, but wanted to do this to help regroup and reorient for the weekend.
AFTER ACTION REVIEW 1) Almost no new words since Sunday. 2) So actually since I didn't have the energy for goal 1 I really focused on goal 2 and FINISHED IT! The photobook was created and the order submitted. When I originally looked at the order it would have arrived before Thanksgiving, but by the time I got to submitting it there was a delay until after. I guess there were that many more people in front of me in line by that point because of the 50% deal that was going on. I'll let everyone know if the Mix Book comes out better or worse than the Shutterfly books I've done. I will say that it was MUCH less aggravating to use than the Shutterfly software for this purpose. (I haven't tried it with the calendar yet, that will be for December.) 3) I did read more of 'The Only Street in Paris'. 4) Adventure Ring didn't happen at all. While I didn't hit 8k any day I did get 4k a couple days which is pretty good considering I was sick. INTENTIONS/MINIGOALS 1) Catchup by writing 15k words over the weekend. I know this is a big goal, but this is what it needs to be in order to finish this month out properly. Considering starting 4thewords again to help with the motivation to write, and also to help make sure I don't overwork myself by doing too much in a row while recovering. Lastly it's about time to dump what's on the Neo. I know I left myself a couple notes about areas that will need expanding, might be worth looking into those more this weekend for some writing motivation. 2) This is done. A new goal will be placed here after November. 3) Read more of one of my books in progress. 4) I'll be walking a lot of dogs this weekend, so simply keeping to the goal of 8k a day. Nothing in addition. Late again and a busier weekend than I was hoping with the SO getting sick in the middle of the night. I ended up sleeping in which took up valuable writing time.
It's not like i don't have the time though, I've been spending it on Death Stranding. It's a new game that came out and I've been enjoying a ton. I haven't had a game that I've gotten into this much in a long time, so I've been riding out the awesomeness and enjoying it to the fullest. (When the gaming muse hits!) AFTER ACTION REVIEW 1) Posted crossposts and IT related posts. Did not write 2k a day, and am about 10k behind currently. 2) Did the first draft of five pages and did some additional organization of my photos which should make all of the rest of this scrapbook significantly faster. 3) I read a little bit of four different books! Over-success. 4) Haven't been playing the adventure ring since i"ve been focusing on death stranding. I have been doing some extra walks each day and playing a bit more of Wizards United and Pokemon again, both of which had community day over this weekend. That meant a longer walk than normal, and more steps for me and the doggo. I have been very good about bringing my lunches to work, though there has also been a ton of snacks at work as well which I've been indulging in. Not the best for my diet but it is good for my budget. INTENTIONS/MINIGOALS 1) Write 2k words a day. Write extra on Wednesday before checkin. Keep up with the FB group, forum crosspost, etc. 2) See how what the delivery time is like for the scrapbook from Mix Book. Depending on that answer I might make this more of a priority. At base I'm hoping for anther three pages before Wednesday checkin. 3) Read a bit of one of the books. 4) Play a bit of adventure ring every day. 8k of walking a day. Bring homemade lunches to work. Try to enjoy treats at work, but not overindulge. Well, missing a post is one reason for me to actually be closer to on time this week. I've been focusing on performing the plan instead of thinking too much about the plan or the progress on the plan etc.
AFTER ACTION REVIEW 1) Successful party. Not a ton of people, but for a Thursday at midnight quite a lot. I have been keeping up with my 2k a day, plus a little. Didn't make the stretch goal, no surprise really because it was that much of a stretch goal. Did check in with mentees. 2) Made a lot of progress on the scrapbook on the weekend including changing over to Wix Books and doing a complete outline for it. Haven't made much progress over the week so far as I've been taking care of other things. 3) Read a little bit of "What if?" and enjoyed it. 4) Been playing adventure ring every other day and have been doing pretty good about keeping up with that and my 8k of walking per day. Overall it's what I can fit in while keeping up with my writing goal for the month. INTENTIONS/MINIGOALS 1) Post another crosspost between the forums and FB group. Post update about what the IT team is working on for the website. Write 2k words a day. 2) Make one scrapbook page a day, in less than 20 minutes. (Or do five at once this weekend, whatever works.) 3) Read a little bit of one of my books. 4) Try to play adventure ring every day. Try to keep up with 8k a day walking. Try to keep up with bringing lunches to work throughout the month. Meant to post this yesterday, but got a bit distracted by other life happenings.
AFTER ACTION REVIEW 1) 100% success. I at least spent time trying to do all the things, though there was some tech issues that were against me. Successfully crossposted between the forums and the FB group. Tried to post in the event page, but had many technical issues that are not resolved. I did look into NaNoFaces and found out that it isn't happening this year. Tried to update the post to include an imbedded calendar but had technical issues and decided to abandon the idea. Did post in the FB group for everyone to look at the website. Also choose character names for my story and put together an outline for scene one. 2) Successfully made two scrapbook pages. Didn't end up putting on the timer, still getting used to the formatting and am amazed at just how much I did each day. No wonder why I've been tired for a week straight! I cannot get the first full day into less than four pages. This is going to be a thick book! 3) Did not read the first section of, 'What if?" 4) Have been playing adventure ring every day and my muscles are feeling it! As the weather is getting murker I think that this will be a great way to look forward to working out while not adding driving time into my day. One of the best impulse buys I've had in awhile! INTENTIONS/MINIGOALS 1) Host Kick off Party. Try to write 2k words a day. Stretch goal of having 10k as a buffer by checkin on Sun Nov 3rd. Checkin with mentees. 2) Make one scrapbook page a day, in less than 20minutes. The goal is to finish the scrapbook by the end of November, with NaNo. (So that's actually two books in one month?!) 3) Read a little bit of one of my books. 4) Play adventure ring every day. Talk to SO about trying meat CSA. Try to keep up on bringing lunches throughout NaNo. (Not worried about trying to recipes with the writing marathon approaching.) |
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Read 52 Books
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