Happy 4th of July to all my American peeps!  Happy summer-is-finally here to all my Northern hemisphere peeps  And happy winter to those on the southern half of the world

It’s time again for Monday Warm-up, my weekly update on my goals.

Writing

Cry of the Hawk –

Achieved: I got 4k written last week, and the first draft now sits at 19,572. Yay!
Goal: 3K this week

1 Flash story

Achieved – nope, didn’t happen
Goal:  I’ll try again to write one for this week, based on the theme of a contest from my critique website

Revising

Hero –

Achieved: revision finally finished! I’ve submitted the story to my crit group.

Cats at Midnight –

Achieved:  Got through about 31% of my revision process.  I’ll have to explain one day how I measure that.
Goal: Get to 39%, i.e. section 10 of my crit process.

Seer –

Achieved: 31% revision on this, and got a lot of great ideas.
Goal:  Get to 35% revised, or section 8 of my crit process.

Flash story –

Achieved: Managed to revise my short story (not flash) Mist Mad.  I’ll be splitting that one in three and sharing on my blog.
Goal:  Revise another flash story this week, likely one about a thief and a dragon.

Website

Achieved:  I set up my free reads page.  It’s very empty at the moment, but as I get flash stories revised and post them on my blog, I’ll be putting them on this page.

Goal:

Set up a website page for my Patreon
Set up my mailing list
Sketch out plans for two new short stories

Personal Goals

Dedicate a half hour, three nights this week to practice drawing –

Achieved: I got in a couple nights of practice.
Goal: trying for three nights again

Exercise for at least 10 minutes every day (I know that doesn’t sound like much, but baby steps, and all that)

Achieved: Managed every other day, and took a walk with my son on Thursday
Goal:  Trying again for 10 minutes every day, and at least one walk

Read 10% each (I’m all about the ebooks) from:

Shifting Shadows, a short story collection by Patricia Briggs –

Achieved: actually finished this one.  Patricia Briggs will do that to my every time

Indiana Bell, a time travel historical novel by John Heldt  –

Achieved: made it to about 5% on this one
Goal: Aiming for 15% this week, and still planning to review.  Keep an eye out for it.

To sum up the week, I also managed to deep clean my house from top to bottom.  I could not be more thrilled.   We finally have uncluttered, clean surfaces again.  Yay!  As well, I discovered that I had accidently thrown a wet diaper into my son’s hamper.  I did not discover this until after it had gone through the wash with the clothes.  Yep, gross.

Wish me luck, and good luck to all of you.  Sound off in the comment, and share your goals for the week.