The Plot Bunny Farm

Health and Fitness

Exercise was pretty spotty in August: 15 times, most of which were swimming. I was sick for the first week of August and for several days during the month, which cut into exercise. 

I have gradually increased the length of time I spend swimming -- I started at half an hour while Alltoseek was visiting, then moved up to 45 minutes, and now am at 60-63 minutes. I probably won’t expand beyond that range. The default swim lane reservation is an hour, and exercising for more than an hour feels excessive anyway.

Diet is about the same.

Dailies

Tracking these has remained fitful.I have down 10 times editing, 5 times writing, and 10 times drawing, which is probably accurate.

Writing

I got 730 words into the unenthusiastic scene of A Dragon’s Secret. I re-read most of the draft so far in the hopes of motivating myself to write more, but while I enjoyed the re-read, I’m still not motivated to write.

The Business of Writing

I declared victory over the last three editing points before final-readthrough of A Wolf-Shifter’s Pack, and started the final read-through. Which means I should be able to publish it in October, finally.

Art

I finished another two portraits for Ex-Villainess, and did two Time Princess fan art illos. I ended up particularly liking the one of Olive and Dahlia kissing: https://mastodon.art/@rowyn/115118505363629540

Reading

I have not motivated myself to listen to any more audiobooks while swimming. I’ve been listening to podcasts instead. Still reading a lot of manwha, almost all of it incomplete. One series, “My Failing Divorce” finally concluded. I unlocked the remaining episodes but haven’t actually read them yet. The first half of this series was fun in a “there’s never any serious threats” way. Eventually, though, the author introduced an incredibly tedious and annoying amnesia plot and I regretted unlocking the episodes. I read through to the eventual unsatisfying conclusion of that arc. I think Tapas ran a sale on the final episodes so I got them, but I still haven’t actually read them. I’m not sure where I stopped reading anymore; Tapas marked all the episodes as read when I bought them, because I had to click on each one to buy it. At some point I guess I should actually read it.

Social

I’ve been seeing Sophani, Kage and Envoy on most Fridays; I think three times in August, because I cancelled twice over not feeling well.

Goal Scorecard

• Provide care for parents: Done!
• Pay August bills: Done!
• Decide what I’m doing with those last three editing points on A Wolf-Shifter’s Pack: Done!
• Look at this list a few times during the month so that I actually do the next two: I actually did check it enough times to do the last two!
• Find out what I need to do to register car in new state: Done. I need to fill out and print two forms but I have all the information and other paperwork I need.
• Make podiatry appointment for Dad: Done! It was September 2.

Stretch Goals completed:

• Finalize whatever I'm gonna call the Untitled Polyam Lesbian Romantasy: Yeah I think I’m sticking with A Wolf-Shifter’s Pack at this point
• Start final read through on Untitled Polyam Lesbian Romantasy: Oh hey I thought this stretch goal was to finish it. I didn’t, but I started it, so I got this stretch goal
• Play more of romance soloRPG: I wrote out Day 3, which was fun! Then the Day 4 prompts bored me and I stopped writing it. Aw.
• Exercise 15+ times (organizing stuff/cleaning counts as exercise): Just barely!
• Track what I read: So I didn’t finish anything but technically I have tracked the nothing that I finished!
• Do some art: 4 pictures!
• Visit friends: oh hey I did this one too!

September Goals

• Provide care for parents
• Pay September bills
• Complete final read-through on A Wolf-Shifter’s Pack
• Do something about the next scene of A Dragon's Secrets (write it, or skip it, or phone it in, or whatever else gets me to writing a different scene)
• Look at this list a few times during the month so that I actually do the next two
• File 2024 taxes (I have an extension on filing until October but I don’t want to wait until the last minute. Again.)
• Complete and print forms to register car

September Stretch Goals

• Work on outline for some new project
• Play more of romance soloRPG
• Exercise 15+ times (organizing stuff/cleaning counts as exercise)
• Track what I read
• Keep up on my Dreamwidth feed
• Ask Bookbub for a Featured Deal and run another ad campaign for a book
• Get backmatter updated for whatever book I promote
• Pick an old picture to redraw
• Do some art
• Register car
• Visit friends