My friends, it is officially snowing out on the Alberta oil sands. Wish me luck surviving the winter.
On the upside of things, I have a couple of good things to report today.
Goal #1: Lose ten pounds and become healthier overall.
As per usual, since I’m out West right now I can’t report on the weight part of the equation. I can tell you, however, that my first day on my new stomach meds has been a success. I imagine it’s still too early to tell for sure, but they do seem to do exactly what they’re meant to do, which is to stop stomach spasms. The nervousness that I feel as a result of dealing with my stomach issues is still there, but the ability to calm myself down and relax in general seems to have greatly increased. I’m not holding my breath just yet, but I’m hoping that by this time next week I’ll be able to report further success, and believe me when I say that successful use of medication will greatly increase my physical and mental health.
Goal #2: Be more active on social media and work hard on my author platform.
I’d like to say that I’ve been more active this past week, but it would definitely be a lie. Mostly I’ve just been to busy with everything else. I can, however, report that I’ve been having moderate success thus far being a part of Self-Publisher’s Showcase, and I seem to be amassing a decent number of new followers on various platforms as of late. So if you’re new and you’re reading right now, thanks for coming! I hope you’ll stick around!
Goal #3: COMPLETE my zombie apocalypse novel, Nowhere to Hide.
Still complete! No one can take this goal away from me! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Also, last week’s Halloween-Day-Free-Ebook-Offer was a pretty nice success. I didn’t make any money from it, of course, but hopefully a few of the people who jumped on the free download will see fit to review the book and help me out a ton (hint…hint…).
Goal #4: Write 500,000 words.
Unfortunately, as I am wont to do, I forgot to write down my word count for the week before I travelled out West. Also unfortunately, the first two days of NaNoWriMo were a bit of a flop, since they were my last days home and I was a little more interested in spending them with my family. However, I can tell you that I wrote somewhere in the range of 7000 words this past week, and 2000 of those words were yesterday alone. I’m really hoping to be able to keep up that trend in the coming week. If I can write 2000 words a day for six or seven more days I should be able to catch up on the words I lost on the first two days of NaNo.
Which reminds me, I should be writing right now. Ciao!
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Ooh, Alberta. Glad I’m in a warmer place right now.
Yeah, its getting pretty nippy here. But the worst part is that by the time I go home it’ll be cold there too. >.<
It’s getting very cool at night here. But you see, I have to deal with the poor insulation that they give these homes in Japan. It’s as cold inside as it is outside!