May 2022 Progress Report
What can I say about May 2022, except that it came and went way too quickly. And I discovered there’s a world day for bees! Clever Girl and I visited ...
April 2022 Progress Report
So, April 2022 marked the start of the second quarter, and my second 12 Week Year, the first using the 12 Week Year For Writers. And started with a sense ...
Q2 2022 Plan
Hopefully my Q2 2022 plan will build on the lessons learned in Q1 and turn out more successfully. In the universe according to Dean Wesley Smith, the second quarter is ...
Q1 2022 Review
My Q1 2022 review tells me I haven’t stuck to my plan. Though, to be honest, we all knew that already. In the Dean Wesley Smith universe, the first quarter ...
March 2022 Progress Report
The end of March 2022 marks the end of the quarter, and I can’t help feeling the year is over. Though I suppose my first 12 Week Year is. It’s ...
February 2022 Progress Report
Now that it’s February 2022, thanks to the 12 Week Year, I have the uncomfortable feeling the year is half over. And it kind of is. My minor surgery turned ...
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Fail to Success
Given my Q1 plan has been massively derailed by the unexpected difficulty of recovering from a minor surgery. Technically I’m failing, not succeeding. But what to do about it?. I’ve ...
January 2022 Progress Report
January 2022, the first four weeks of my first attempt at a 12 Week Year. With mixed results. January 2022 got off to a fairly slow start, despite my high ...
Q1 2022 Plan
Right, so the Q1 2022 plan is a good time to tell you I’m not going to wite a 2022 plan as such. But, before we get started on the ...
2021 Year End Review
As 2021 draws to its close, it’s time to look back and take stock in a 2021 review. Because if you don’t, what will you learn, and how can you ...
2021 Q4 Review
Q4 2021 for me was definitely a Big Fat Restart, coming as it did with the return of my inner dialogue. For clarity, Dean Wesley Smith calls Q4 the The ...
December 2021 Progress Report
Ah, December 2021, when the year that was FINALLY ran out of steam and ground down to the end. I thought we’d never make it. I got all the important ...
November 2021 Progress Report
November 2021 was like when someone (e.g., your recorded meditation) tells you to set your mind free and let it go anywhere it wants to go, but you don’t know ...
October 2021 Progress Report
October 2021 marked the lifting of restrictions and the end of Covid lockdowns. We were watching the vaccination rate increase, and I felt like a kid again, counting down the ...
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2021 Transplantiversary
My 2021 transplantiversary marks the TENTH year of my transplant! It feels like a real achievement, and I feel like I should get it a gift to commemorate the day ...
2021 Q3 Review
The third quarter, as Dean Wesley Smith calls it, is the Time of Great Regret. And for me, Q3 2021 was definitely that. As he explains it, you get to ...
September 2021 Progress Report
September 2021 is best summed up by Dickens. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age ...
August 2021 Progress Report
Well, it’s August 2021, and ...
July 2021 Progress Report
Is it July 2021 already? It’s almost not worth ticking the days off the calendar – my life feels like one long hump day. Groundhog Wednesday… And yet somehow, I ...
2021 Q2 Review
The first quarter has been and gone, and now we’re doing the 2021 Q2 Review for, as Dean Wesley Smith calls it the Time of Great Forgetting. Q2 2021 Review ...
June 2021 Progress Report
June 2021. I’ve no idea how to describe June. Or where it went. Though I know I wrote a new short story a collection… After such a massively productive May, ...
May 2021 Progress Report
May 2021 turns out to be the month I broke, and then got my shit back together again. Struggling with bronchitis, but making progress. It feels bloody good to get ...
April 2021 Progress Report
April 2021 pretty much followed on from where March left off, and I ended the month still tired and needing some rest. I started with a flu jab and a ...
2021 Q1 Review
Before we get to the Q1 2021 review, let’s take a quick look back at the planning. Planning 2021 So. According to my random, and tongue in cheek horoscope selections, ...
March 2021 Progress Report
Spent most of March 2021 feeling exhausted and napping. I am one of those people tend to sleep when times get tough, so I’m starting to feel the pandemic is ...