A quick note, because I’ve been guilty about the somewhat disappointing mid-year report and don’t want you to think that I just sit around and whine (I know no one who knows me thinks that, but I get paranoid). Since writing that post, I have:
- Submitted 3 stories to 13 places (hooray for simultaneous submissions!)
- Written a first draft of a story
- Resumed editing a story I’ve been sitting on, meaning to rewrite
- Published the guest post at the Canary Review
This week, I started getting up at 7:10 instead of 7:25, and am using the extra 15 minutes to write a little before I go to work. It’s helping! I can get about 300-350 words out in my bleary state, which means I only need 150-200 or so when I get home to meet my 500/day goal. Admittedly, I’ve only been getting up early for four days as I write this, but I plan to make it a new habit.
While seeing how far I’d fallen short of my goals was disheartening, writing it out and holding myself accountable does seem to give me a kick toward better progress. I told Andrew that sometimes it’s not even as much a matter of getting back on the wagon as it is finding out where the damn thing went. I feel good about this last month, though. Wagons ho!
Jessica Jonas 
Chirp, #4 makes up for pretty much anything and everything!
Goals are terrible. They’re like chain-mail spam; they keep popping up when you least expect them to, and somehow, you end up spending way too long agonizing over them before clicking “delete”.
Number 4 does make up for pretty much anything! I am going to be grinning about that one for a while :D.
Man, goals are terrible–and of course I am addicted to them! Fortunately, I achieved about as much over the last four weeks as I did over the previous 3 months, which has (temporarily) appeased the inner slave driver.