Day 29 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: None. Exercise: None. Other achievements: I organized the house post-garage sale in preparation for the landlady coming this afternoon to sign a lease with the new tenants. I sold the bathroom scales and some chairs. I went to the hospital for my ultrasound and obstetrician appointments and [...]

Novel: None Exercise: None Other Achievements: We sold the car! It was in the shop for detailing work and we got it back Friday afternoon. Within an hour two buyers had come to see it and both were interested and prepared to pay asking price. We went with the one that was able to get [...]

Day 26 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: I have been thinking about the novel a fair bit but there’s been no change to the word count. It’s pretty clear that I’m not going to make my goal of 24,000 words by the end of the month – but that doesn’t mean that I’m giving [...]

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! Tweet

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 [...]