Day 19 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: I haven’t written for a few days. I might still get a chance this afternoon but it’s been pretty busy! Exercise: I swam 20 freestyle laps at the pool this morning (15-20 minutes). It was the first time in over a week. It felt really great! I [...]

Day 15 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: No progress today. This wasn’t procrastination, I was just really busy all day. Exercise: I had hoped to go for a swim but didn’t get time. Other achievements: I wrote three blog posts for Passports with Purpose, the travel blogging fundraiser I’m involved with. This year we [...]

Day 14 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: No progress today. Exercise: None. Other achievements: I read a novel, made crepes for brunch, took an afternoon nap and went to see a cabaret show in San Francisco in the evening. A fun Sunday, not a productive one!

Day 13 in my month-long accountability project. I didn’t post yesterday. I finished the feature I was working on at 1am on Friday morning so I had an easy morning on Friday, then took my husband to the doctor in the afternoon (he’s fine; it was just routine stuff). Novel: I plotted out half the [...]

Day eleven in my month-long accountability project. Novel: I watched some videos on character archetypes in the Dramatica story theory. I really need to work on my antagonist before I do any more plot development and/or writing. I don’t really have one. I have a candidate but I haven’t worked out her role in the [...]

Day ten in my month-long accountability project. I didn’t post yesterday. I spent most of the day at the hospital, getting blood tests and so on. I also listed a bunch of furniture on Craigslist. Here’s today’s progress report. Novel: I have been listening to podcasts of Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing and this [...]

Day eight in my month-long accountability project. I failed to post on Saturday and Sunday. I did add about 583 words to my novel, though this was below target. As for exercise, I learnt a lesson about the danger of procrastination. On Saturday I put off the swim until Sunday; then on Sunday it was [...]