Progress Report: October 1-6, 2018

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October began with a journey. After spending a week with my parents we were returning home, a fifteen hour journey, which we navigated safely. It was good to be home, and I set to work, trying to get as much done as possible before we celebrated a family birthday at the end of the week. Here, in spite of last week being a 6-day week, and in spite of spending a day travelling (and adding to my list of places to return to), is what was achieved in the first week of October 2018:

Progress: October 1-6, 2018

  • New words produced: 27,591
  • Outlines and Notes: 5,676
  • Words compiled: 0
  • Works completed: 2 (submission stories)
  • Works edited: 1 (Harper & the Unicorn)
  • Covers created: 0
  • Works formatted: 1 (Harper & the Unicorn)
  • Works published: 1 (Harper & the Unicorn)
  • Works released: 1 (Harper & the Unicorn)
  • Works submitted: 0
  • Competitions Entered: 1
  • Bloggery: 3,654
  • Hours at Desk—October 1-6: 47 hours 51 minutes
  • September Hours at Desk (not all recorded): 180 hours, 36 minutes
  • August Hours at Desk: 263 hours, 29 minutes
  • July Hours at Desk: 264 hours, 18 minutes
  • June Hours at Desk: 230 hours, 5 minutes
  • May Hours at Desk: 302 hours, 6 minutes
  • April Hours at Desk: 167 hours, 41 minutes
  • March Hours at Desk: 201 hours, 43 minutes
  • February Hours at Desk: 183 hours, 50 minutes
  • January Hours at Desk: 180 hours, 3 minutes

October Goals Progress

During this week of October, I achieved the following goals set for the month:
  • Completed SS02, which was meant to run to 8,000 words, but went to 14,608;
  • Completed SS03, which was meant to run to 8,000 words but went to 11,288; and
  • edited, formatted, uploaded and released Harper& the Unicorn.

I also made the following progress towards the remainder of the goals:
  • Completed blog posts for October 2-6, 8, 15, and 22; and
  • Added 1,603 words to the first novel.

Location: Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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