Setting a Daunting Goal for Myself

I just realized the date is ten-four 2020. As in good-bye year which has been over the top horrid.

Anyway, I didn’t post here last week because I was on vacation. I had my laptop and internet and I could have come up with something, but I thought – oh, shoot, let’s just start fresh once October gets here!

Real quick, I had a wonderful vacation with my kids. We rented a cabin about two hours north of where I live, and even though the weather was cool and rainy, we still were outdoors, hiking and exploring, as much as we could. I’m blessed to live where I do and have the awesome kids and husband that I have.

So, here’s what I accomplished since I posted my goals last, two weeks ago. Green highlight is goal accomplished, yellow highlight is worked on and red lettering is a failure.

1) My novel, "The Truth Beyond the River.”

a. Post a blog about it once. Yes.  

b. Post that video I made on YouTube. Yes.    

c. Promote the free e-book version on my social media. Yes. My that seems so long ago already!

2) My WIP, the novel, “Rewrite the Now”.

a. Write three chapters or 4,500 words. Two chapters and 3,441 words. So close.

b. Do an evening of research for it. Hmm? I think I did.   

3) Other writing.

a. Write an entry in my Covert Corona Chronicles. Yes, twice.

b. Write two posts, per week, on my other blog, “The Dino Chronicles”. Yes. I did.

c. Write a short story to submit to one of the markets I discovered last week.  No and yes. I submitted a story I’d written a few years ago to a new market which I discovered this week. 😊

4) Other stuff.

a. Going to that cabin on the weekend. Yeah! We had a fantastic time and are ready to plan our next family vacation!

Seeing as there is so much green here, and I finally have a handle on my WIP,  and Hubby and I have finished watching the entire "Downton Abbey" series, I am going to set a goal of having finished writing my “Rewrite the Now” novel by the end of the year. I currently have 13,000 words on it, which means, with twelve weeks until the end of December, I need to average 4,700 words a week, or so. Sounds pretty daunting, but I’m going to give it my best shot. I’m thinking that if I can finish writing it by then, self-edit it in January, hire a professional to edit it by spring, I could possibly publish it by mid-summer. We’ll see.   

1) My novel, “The Truth Beyond the River.”

a. Promote it somehow. (How very vague. Argh. ☹)

2) My WIP, the novel, “Rewrite the Now”.

a. Write three chapters or 4,700 words.

b. Do an evening of research for it.

3) Other writing.

a. Write an entry in my Covert Corona Chronicles.

b. Write two posts on my other blog, “The Dino Chronicles”.

c. Write a poem, because it is poetry month and I haven’t written any in a long time.   

4) Other stuff.

a. Work in the yard.

i) rake the yard.

ii) prep my garden for winter.

b. Take a walk somewhere other than my yard. Winter will be here soon and I have to get out before it gets too cold.

c. Work on sewing one of my quilts.

That sounds like way more than I have energy for this week, so wish me luck! Have a great week yourself, be safe and stay healthy.  Chris