Now, it’s time to look ahead, and make some plans about what I’ll be doing for 2026. Possibly even set some goals. I won’t have a wordcount for the year. First time in quite a few years. We’ll see if I maintain that, or if I decided midyear that I need to start counting words […]
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This is going to contain a lot of talk about diet. Read—or don’t!—with your own self-care in mind. In 2025, I really thought I was going to lose weight. I got back on Carb Manager, which is the app that I use for tracking calories. I counted and weighed and all the things. And was
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I have three of these essays planned. This one will be a retrospective for me of health, exercise & diet, writing & publishing. Then I have a connecting piece about changing my perspective, followed by a looking forward piece. 2024 was one of the hardest, most stressful years of my life. 2025 was very much
I’ve already written about my word count goals, as well as the movement changes I’m making for 2025. Now, I’m going to write about the diet and other changes I’m making. I need to lose weight. I’m a little below the heaviest I’ve ever been, but not by much. However, I tried not to stress
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2024 wasn’t the best year. Normally, I don’t make a lot of New Year’s resolutions. I’d much rather change things over time, implement a new way of doing things when the time is appropriate, and not just save it all up. However, given the nature of the previous year, tagging things to be changed for
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It’s that time of year again, time for the mid-year review. This hasn’t been the best year for me, to put it mildly. In fact, it’s been one of my worst years on record in terms of word count, since I’ve been keeping track in a single spreadsheet. 2017 is the last year that even
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I made my word count goal for the year, which was 500,000. YAY! GO ME! Seriously. I’m very pleased with actually making my goal for the year. When I count words, I count everything that I consider intended for public consumption. So in addition to the fiction, I count blog posts, Patreon essays, newsletters, etc.
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It’s the middle of the year, and time to check and see how people are doing! Remember those goals you set at the start of the year? How are you doing in regards to them? Do you need to keep going? Or is it time to change things up? I had three major areas for
As promised, the cleverly titled post about the other goals I’m setting for 2021. For the most part, these aren’t new goals. This is more about recommitting to them. Walking I continue to try to walk 10K steps per day. I had been doing less, trying to average merely 7K per day. When I did
Since this part is going to be long, I’ll actually have another blog post about 2021 goals, in terms of walking, diet, and email. This one is just about business and publishing. Blaze and I had the annual Knotted Road Press, Inc business meeting in November, where we went through the 2020 business plan and
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