Category: Meilo’s World

Goal 1) TAP 2

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 2000 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 18,000 words
• Where I am: 16,112 words
• On Target or Behind: Behind

How’s It Going:
So for anyone who either doesn’t live in Texas or hasn’t heard, this past week Hell froze over and our state was not equipped to deal with it. No, I didn’t write a damn word. Not because it was cold, but because our power was out for most of the week, we almost lost our water, we ran out of firewood on day 2 and had to scramble to find some, and I was more focused on keeping myself, my dad, and my cats from turning into the most horrific kind of popsicles while sitting inside our own home.

That being said, we’re fine now; everything’s back on and the snow/ice is slowly melting away. I even went to work Friday. And my goal is safe too because I purposely built in a buffer. (Hey, someone around here’s gotta think ahead and prepare for the worst. :/) So next week I’ll shoot for my 18k mark, then go from there.

So, last Saturday I woke up not feeling so great, but I figured it was because I didn’t sleep well the night before due to heartburn. I was mostly just sore and achey.

Woke up Sunday feeling even more achey. I was like, is it what I think it is? Except the only symptom was body aches. I might have had a fever, but I couldn’t really tell, since we don’t have a thermometer and I tend to run hot anyway. Decided to schedule a COVID test for Monday.

Monday, still with the body aches. I called in sick to work, got my COVID test and was ready to settle in to wait.

Tuesday I call in sick again, and my boss gently advises me to see a doctor (BECAUSE I’M DUMB AND HE’S KINDA GREAT LIKE THAT). Of course, with my symptoms, they won’t let me come into the clinic, plus my primary is out all week, so I have to contact the express clinic. They can’t see me either, but they do set up a telehealth appointment. I chat with a doc for a minute and she orders a flu and strep test (she wanted to test for COVID as well, but since I’d already had it done, I turned it down) that they perform in a drive-thru type thing. About an hour later the doc calls to tell me I have strep.

Which… kinda snows me, because my throat didn’t hurt. Like, it was a little scratchy, but… I distinctly remember the last time I had strep and it was the most godawful pain I’d ever experienced in my throat. Like, I was drooling and dehydrated because it hurt so bad to swallow, and they had to pump me full of a bag of fluids at the clinic and gave me a shot of penicillin. So I’m like, cool, whatever, at least it’s not too bad and I can go back to work after a few days of antibiotics.

Only, I still gotta wait for the COVID test to come back before I can for sure return to work.

It comes in Thursday morning.

Positive.

So, yup. I’m the lucky bastard that ended up with the plague strep and COVID at the same time. For Christmas.

Can we please end the dumpster fire that is 2020 now?

(All that said, I took a break from writing this week. I’ve got enough buffer. And I’m feeling fine, no worries. My immune system is a beast.)

So yesterday was my first day back at work. And I’m really glad it was only a half day, cause it kicked my ass. I’m so out of shape.

And now I’ll be working half days all week. So uh. I may just keep my schedule for all this and just see what happens.

GOAL 1) PUBLISH SKOS

• My Goal: Spend at least 10 mins, 3 days/week minimum
• Where I planned to be: Spent at least 30 mins
• Where I am: Made a wrong turn in Albuquerque
• On Target or Behind: Uhhh

How’s It Going:
I’m in the thick of overhauling Keziah and… it’s going better than I thought? Either that or I’m doing it wrong, I don’t know. Other than that, I have one more scene to add, and I’m not sure what to put in it. I mean, I know I need to have Madison and his dad in there, and things are not going well for either of them, and it’s also Thanksgiving, but I’m just not sure how I’m gonna do it yet.

GOAL 2) REVISE SYCU

• My Goal: 2 Lessons per month/ 1 Lesson every 2 weeks (except L17 and L21, which get 4 weeks min)
• Where I planned to be: Lesson 17, 30 scenes in
• Where I am: Lesson 17, 23 scenes in
• On Target or Behind: Behind

How’s It Going:
If I’d just powered through that one new scene on Tuesday… But I didn’t, so I ended up spending something like 5 hours on Thursday just trying to sort of catch up because I’m a garbage can.

Other than that, I feel like everything’s coming together well? I think I got the scenes in the right order at least, because they seem to just flow into each other really well. And I feel like I’m doing a decent job at making the reader question who the villain really is. Now if I could just knock out more scenes at a time…

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 27000 words
• Where I am: 27495 words
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I’m screwed.

I got all of my characters in the same place, one of them seriously injured, and… now I don’t know where to go. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do after I finished up this scene and I’ve gotten nowhere. And now I have no idea what happens next.

I may have to dig through some of Holly’s other classes for the big guns.