Monday Update – August 8th
Holy cow! I now have four subscribers on my mailing list. Yay! And I was interviewed by Alyssa Flowers. Please follow the link to check out her wonderful blog and send her some comment love
Those two things were a great lift up to a very chaotic week. A lot of home repairs going on, Bunny’s 18-month check-up and I ended up keeping him home of Friday. It was a rough week for writing.
Writing
Cry of the Hawk –
Achieved: I managed to write almost 982 word on Hawk this week, but it was a struggle. That puts me at 27,482, and 12,503 toward my #hotandsticky count.
Goal: Reach for the stars, so let’s try for 3k again

1 Flash story
Achieved – Ha! Nope.
Goal: I try again with that prompt I was going to use last week.
Revising
Cats at Midnight –
Achieved: Another big nope, although in part because I was on another short story I have plans for. So, still sitting at 64%.
Goal: Shooting for 84% this week. Wish me luck.
Seer –
Achieved: Nothing on this on either
Goal: Would love to hit 43% but this one is probably about to hit the back burner.
Flash story –
Achieved: A got a little done on Amber Soul. I’m going to try to finish it this week.
Goal: If I can finish Amber Soul this week, I’ll count that a win.
Website
The new website and my mailing list are up and running I have some more plans for the website, which should be awesome. Expect to see some new things in a couple of weeks, and please let me know what you think in the comments.
Personal Goals
Dedicate a half hour, three nights a week to sewing –
Goal: This one really got sacrificed to all the home repairs we have going on.
Planning to try for one page again.
Exercise for at least 10 minutes every day (I know that doesn’t sound like much, but baby steps, and all that)
Achieved: Actually ended up having to cut the workouts back severely, because I was overdoing.
Goal: With that in mind, Bear, Bunny and I will stick with placid walks for the next few weeks and I’ll probably drop the intense Zumba workouts for a while.
Read 10% each (I’m all about the ebooks) from:
Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
Achieved: Made it to page 13. It’s actually a really fun book. The author has a very subtle sense of humor when describing the very … unique food people used to enjoy.
Goal: Shooting for page 50 this week.
Carpe Jugulum
My library doesn’t carry many Discworld novels, so I was quite pleased to find this one. I’m already on page 27. Not going for any particular page number, just enjoying the read.
Wish me luck, and good luck to all of you. Sound off in the comments, and share your goals for the week.
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