Progress Report: October 14-20 & 21-27, 2018

There was a major event for Ingress last weekend, and I took some time to join in—these things don’t come around very often, and it gave me a chance to meet other players, instead of playing on my own. I think I walked over 30km over the two days—Saturday was the Anomaly, a competitive battle between the Enlightened and Resistance teams; and Sunday was Mission Day, which was much more relaxed as players followed the 24-mission series around inner Canberra, trying to complete a minimum of 12 in order to earn their Mission Day medal.

I got to meet a bunch of really great people, and got my butt out of the chair for several hours, which did me a lot of good, and reminded me I really need to work on my fitness. I’m extra-thankful to my husband for taking on podling duty for the weekend so I could get out and about and visit with the growed ups for a change.

The Mission Day medal hasn’t arrived, yet, but the Anomaly medal has, as you can see and the missions you can see on the screen are the Mission Day series completed on Sunday—all six-and-a-half hours of them on one of the most beautiful spring days Canberra has ever put on.
 

Writing-wise, I didn’t get a lot done, but I took two days off, and had several days of less than 8 hours at the desk, particularly in the week leading up to Anomaly—and I don’t regret it. A lot of time was spent on administrative tasks like an anthology compilation and correspondence, as well as tax records, research for a new project, and formatting and compiling my newsletter giveaway.

The coming week will consist of dividing work between two novels and a short story, as well as editing the novel I’ve just completed. While I’d like to say I’ll be updating the back matter of a number of short stories, this week, I don’t think that’s going to happen—the writing and editing will keep me busy enough… which doesn’t mean I won’t be working towards it… oh no, not at all.

As well as that, I need to work on my fitness, or I’m going to get sick, so I’ll be working through an Ingress mission series, while chasing pokemon as I pick up my walking habit. The only rule I’ll have is ‘no stopping’—otherwise there’ll be no fitness benefit.

Is all that doable? I don’t know, but I have to work it out, somehow… or work out how much I can realistically achieve, because our bodies are less forgiving as we get older, and mine is telling me that 10-15 hours each day at the desk is a really bad idea.

Progress: October 14-20, 2018

• New words produced: 5,684
• Outlines and Notes: 7,422
• Works edited: 1 (re-edit on editorial request)
• Works formatted: 1 (for submission after re-edit)
• Works submitted: 1 (submission after requested edit)
• Bloggery: 746

Progress: October 21-27, 2018

• New words produced: 31,942
• Outlines and Notes: 6,778
• Words compiled: 434,732 (The C.M. Simpson Starter Library)
• Works completed: 3 (1 novel, 2 x FF – Balancing the Light, Iana Lives)
• Works edited: 1 (re-edit on editorial request)
• Covers created: 1 (The C.M. Simpson Starter Library)
• Works formatted: 1 (for submission after re-edit)
• Works submitted: 1 (submission after requested edit)
• Hours at Desk—October 21-27: 61 hours 50 minutes
• Hours at Desk—October 14-20: 36 hours 53 minutes
• Hours at Desk—October 7-13: 47 hours 40 minutes
• 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

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