Is it Wednesday already? Yay! That means that I only have five more days of work, six days until I’m home, and fifteen days until Christmas! Woo hoo!
Goal #1: Lose ten pounds and become healthier overall.
Let’s go ahead right now and skip the weight loss part since we all know that ain’t happening and that I can’t report anything right now anyway.
On the health side, however, things are looking up. My stomach has been surprisingly calm, and taking meds for anxiety has made me realize how many things were actually making me anxious. It’s not a strong medication, like the kinds that make you super-docile and zombie-like, but I find myself realizing throughout the day that stupid times that usually get me worked up are just totally bypassing my radar. I see this as a good thing.
Goal #2. Be more active on social media and work hard on my author platform.
It definitely hasn’t been my busiest week ever, but it has been a decent one for sure. I’ve been blogging, tweeting, sharing fun stuff on Facebook, and lately I’ve gotten into Instagram. I will never in a million years be the kind of person who Instagrams their food, but I needed the account in order to complete some of my Influenster and BzzAgent campaign tasks, so I figured I may as well have some fun with it while I’m at it. Check it out if you’re interested.
Goal #3: COMPLETE my zombie apocalypse novel, Nowhere to Hide.
Still done!
In related news, guys, I totally want to put on a Kindle Countdown Deal on “Nowhere to Hide” for Christmas, but I’m blocked from setting it up because I accidentally reset some settings and now I have to wait 30 days before I can put on any deals. Arg! But hey, if you’ve got a reader on your gift-giving list you can always buy them a hard-copy of the book! It’d be like giving me a Christmas present too!
Goal #4: Write 500,000 words.
I’m gonna be honest with you guys: I’m pretty depressed about this goal. Last year I aimed for a million words and didn’t quite reach half of that. This year I aimed for half a million and I don’t think I’m even going to hit 300,000. I’m regressing! On the upside, I did publish a book this year, but I am disappointed in myself for writing so little. Next year must be better.
That said, I don’t have an exact number, but I wrote somewhere in the ballpark of 4000 words this week.
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Well let’s celebrate the things you did accomplish, because those are many!
I’ve no idea how i’d begin to tally up my words. It would probalby frighten me though.
The first year I decided to do a word tally I had to do some weird estimates because it was halfway through the year. lol These days though, I just plug everything into a spreadsheet daily. 🙂 Mind you it’s still difficult to deal with the handwritten words, but I’ve just gotten used to counting at this point, I guess. lol