Swimming for my life

Getting closer to the now, and yet I don't seem to remember it any more clearly! But the pictures at least remind me that there were good times and laughs... as well as some sad, poignant, and downright weird moments. So, normal!

( Ah, September, it seems like you should be fall but you're really still summer. )

Honestly, without pictures I probably wouldn't remember much of anything in July. But I have a memory like a steal sieve...

( July! )

Back to work, back to doing some things...

( maaaaaybe things are more back to normal )

Oh, March, March, March... the month it all came crumbling down. It started off okay, and then... and then...

( Marching onward )

What better way to commemorate the year that has been 2020 than a stroll down "wtf is on my phone's camera?!" lane? Do I even remember January? Back when you could go places and do things?! Oh, those were the days! So without further ado, I present, January, in five pictures:

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Daily wordcount: 8,142 (1,942)
Total wordcount: 49,640 (43,440)
On/off target: +1,297 (-4,903)

Yeah... so, if the title is confusing, it's because I've decided to bend the rules to meet my goal. I just want to cross off my 50k words in November goal in my goal book, and I did technically write some last year, and since it's last year's goal and with all the other goals it's cumulative, I figure using words I wrote in a different November is fair game. And it isn't making the story (which I now hate and don't want to spend time on)any less cohesive at this point.

I don't like writing long things. I like drabbles, little short snippets. I'd be fine writing 50k words in November if they were a series of unrelated, 1,667 word short stories. Maybe some would be double-length, maybe some would only be 800 words. If I ever do it again (and I won't!), I think that would be the way I would do it. Unless I had some story already mapped out and planned.

400 words tomorrow for the victory of one less page in my goal book next year! Whoooo-hoooo! Next up, photos blogged. Look forward to some super-random photos this month!

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Daily wordcount: 2,284
Total wordcount: 38,890
On/off target: -6,119

I didn't lose ground today, but I made up very little. Still, considering the stress I'm going to call it a win. Can I write 11k+ words in three (maybe really two) days? Technically, yes. I could do it in one if I was motivated enough. Spoiler alert: I'm not. I have zero idea where this is going and don't really care about it beyond the fact that it's a goal I get to cross out of my book. Which is actually a fair amount of motivation, if I'm honest, it's the only thing that has kept me going.

Also I really did drink some bad milk today and my stomach is not happy.

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Daily wordcount: 4,752
Total wordcount: 35,920
On/off target: -5,755

I tried to get more written today but I ran out of steam. plus, I have to admit that feeling like I made some headway made me feel lax. There are 5 days left, and I have 15,500 words left to write. That's 2,816 words per day. Not unattainable, but not easy, either. The good news is that three of those days I don't have to work (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) so I have more time to write. The bad news is that I have a lot of things planned for Saturday, so, honestly, if I don't get it done on Friday I'm probably hosed. So let's say that should be 3,520 words a day for the next 4 days? We shall see...


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Daily wordcount: 704
Total wordcount: 31,168
On/off target: -7,173

Terrible day! I did force myself to write at least 500 words, but didn't manage much more than that.

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Daily wordcount: 3,117
Total wordcount: 26,782
On/off target: -8,226

Why am I doing this again?!

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