Skip to main content

70 Days of Sweat Challenge

I wish I could say I did it. I wish I could say that I met my goal and completed the rough draft of my novel.

I can't.

Although I started out strong and definitely made progress, I fizzled. School started for both me and the kidlets. I started exercising on a regular basis (I know! The shock!). Of course this meant that something had to give. Unfortunately, it happened to be my writing. I lost lunch hours to homework. I lost evenings to exercise, helping the kids with their homework, or inept housecleaning (seriously..my house is a wreck).

Only recently have I been regaining momentum. After I finished reading the last few pages of my reading assignment on my lunch hour, I pulled out the WIP and actually managed to get a couple hundred words.

At the end of the 70 Days of Sweat my WIP total word count is 61,086. This means I gained a total of 23,424 words. It's better than nothing, but I really wanted to get my 60K or more. I wanted to finish my rough draft.

I am disappointed in myself.
Labels:

Comments

  1. Tammy6:26 AM

    Do not be to hard on yourself, once you get a system down with the kids, school, exercise; you will complete your book draft in no time.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Krista Heiser8:17 AM

    Thanks, Tammy. A vote of confidence is always appreciated.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Matt S8:25 AM

    Those are legitimate reasons to give up writing time! It's not like you said, "The new season of Lost started, so I can't write" or something to that effect -- you have obligations that have to take a higher priority. Don't beat yourself up for being responsible.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Krista Heiser8:44 AM

    I know, I know. Still it would be nice to get the rough draft done. I really want this Christmas present to be all shiny and pretty in time for holiday.

    Mind you...this was supposed to be last year's Christmas present for my sister-in-law. So it's already several months overdue.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Matt S12:08 PM

    Well, if it's any consolation, I told my sister I'd draw her a picture for Christmas about three years ago, and it's still incomplete. You're not that far overdue by comparison.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Anonymous12:29 PM

    Your only human. Things happen. You are a responsable enough that you can pick up right where you left off, and you are creative enough to not lose the story.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Unknown8:18 PM

    Do not be disappointed. You wrote over 23,000 words in about 2 months. That's about 23,000 more than most people write in a lifetime. The Challenge was more about getting a kickstart and being comitted than a number. Don't get hung up on the word count. And do not downplay your progress. Keep the momentum going and keep writing!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Camping with Little Boys

  Our first travel trailer. I don't remember camping much with my family as a kid. This is likely because we always had the same vacation destination: a family plot in Baldwin, MI. There was no cabin there. Instead, there were two structures: a small, silver camper and an old single-wide trailer. The silver camper is gone but the single-wide still sits there and is used by extended family members to this day.  It wasn't until I was a teenager that my step-mom and dad bought a pop-up trailer and we started camping elsewhere in the state. My memory isn't the greatest, but I'm almost certain they got the pop-up after I started dating Ken. Eventually, my parents upgraded to a fifth wheel that my dad still pulls around to various nearby camping spots. Ken, by contrast, didn't have a set vacation destination growing up. His family camped. They started out with a truck-bed camper, I believe, and eventually upgraded to a fifth wheel.  Ken and I vacationed both in Baldwin an...
Post a Comment
Read more

Looking for Willing Victims

I've decided I'd like to expand my photography skills and experience. This means I need willing models. So far I've got a couple of people who might be willing to let me practice on them. I'm excited but nervous. I want so badly to take amazing pictures and give them each something they like. Shoot #1: Mom wants me to take Christmas pictures of her three daughters. I'm very excited, but I also want a lovely background. I was thinking of taking them to a park or some other such setting where there's a lot of pines. The problem is that Fall has just arrived and these are supposed to be Christmas pictures. Any suggestions? Shoot #2: A senior. I think I'm okay on this one. She wants fall colors in her pictures, so I just need to wait for the trees to do their thing. Then its a matter of finding the right location. Now here's my real delimna: Where do I upload them so they can be printed to look like professional pictures? Rounded corners and im...
9 comments
Read more

Poor Little Doggie

The dog and I both had dentist appointments yesterday for teeth cleanings.  While my appointment turned up a crack in a couple of old cavities, one of which will require a crown (ouch!), I was at least able to walk out of my appointment without feeling miserable.  Not so for this little fella.. Cash's cleaning turned into a tooth-pulling frenzy.  He lost a total of fifteen (15!!) teeth yesterday.  The rot was so advanced in some of the teeth that an infection had spread throughout his little mouth and into his blood stream.  If we wouldn't have taken him in to the vet for this cleaning, we may have lost him.  According to the vet, the infection would have eventually worked its way to his heart and given him a heart attack. For the next five days he's on a liquid only diet of chicken noodle soup and water; he is not happy about this decision and is convinced he's starving to death.  There is a lot of whining and pacing back in forth in front o...
3 comments
Read more