ROW80: Keeping up the momentum
I’m still barreling ahead with progress on Drawn. It hasn’t been as prolific a week so far, but I’ve managed to exceed my daily minimum by at least a few words every day and I’ve got more than 14,000 words down of the story. It feels good to blow way past my daily goal, but giving myself permission to just meet the goal and not try anything fancy is important too.
One of the reasons I haven’t been writing quite as much this week is because I started stripping wallpaper at our house. We’re aiming to move in by the end of April, which means we have a LOT of work to do on the painting front. I want to get all the wallpaper off the walls and have them ready to paint by March 24, the same due date I’ve given myself for Drawn. I will feel a lot better once I know that we can attack things with paintbrushes as soon as the estate sale is over, which should be coming up in a few weeks. In the meantime, I can knock out a lot of work. It’s a little intimidating because I’ve never done any home improvement or repairs before, having always lived in apartments. But it’s exciting…especially planning out the paint and floorplan for my very own writing and craft studio!
How are your goals coming, fellow ROW80ers? Happy Leap Day!
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Good to hear the writing is going so well! I keep having moments of “No, I must go above and beyond!” as well, and then having to remind myself that no, I reached my goal today, and it doesn’t matter if I don’t get any further.
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Thanks Emily! I don’t mind going above and beyond, because I’ll get to my goal much quicker (and have more edit time), but this is definitely not the week that’s going to happen every night. Hopefully I’ll be able to get in some more solid chunks of writing on Saturday and Sunday to push ahead even more.
Reaching your goals is amazing. I always feel guilty if I only just reach my goal but then we both have to give ourselves a break and realise that reaching our word goal is amazing, especially as you have so much else going on.
Well done. x
Thanks Laura! Isn’t it funny how when we reach our goals, we’re still not satisfied and want to do more? I wonder why that is.
Ohhhh. Envious of your craft and writing studio. How I would love one of those for myself! I remember peeling wallpaper when we first moved into this house. Its been quite a while… and can be meditative. Perhaps new ideas will sift through the physical labor. Always great to read your words & thank you for commenting on my recent check in, too!
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Thanks for stopping by, Julie! I am beyond excited about having a space to call my own. I feel very lucky that we are being able to finally move not only into a house, but one that has enough room for us to spread out in.
I can’t wait to get in there and make it our own, slowly but surely.