October Goals Recap

Hello dear reader! If you’ve been around my blog before, you might be familiar with my goal keeping process, so I’m back with another post about this to go over how I did in October! If you’re not familiar with my process, you can read about it here in my September recap, which is the first one I posted on this site. Basically, I write 20-30 things that need to get done that month, and if I mark off over half of them, that month is a “win”. I’ll only be sharing the reading/writing/creative themed ones here, but if you want to check out the rest of them, you can do so on my studyblr.

September was really hard for me with school kicking into high gear, and I would only burn out worse in October if I didn’t set better goals that could work with my class and work schedule, and I think it worked! I’m still exhausted and this past week of exams has been really rough (which is to be expected) but I’m proud of how much I got done, so let’s review, shall we?

1. Read and review Putrescent Poems by Katie Koontz – I really enjoyed this story and Katie is a good friend of mine and a brilliant writer so I recommend checking it out! You can read my review here and get the story here.
2. Make a new writing schedule – I didn’t strictly stick to it, but I started writing for about an hour in the mornings after breakfast and before class started, which is how I could mark off the other items on this list!
3. Make one thing for Laoche – This was originally “outline 1 chapter” but I ended up coming up with a lot of great worldbuilding stuff and last week’s post of drabbles, so I think that counts, since this story is still in the developmental phase.
4. Draw 15/31 things for Inktober – I ended up not following a prompt list, but I drew 15 things, including the character introductions for Esil and Lyss I posted earlier, and this drawing of Madelyn and Seth I posted on my Tumblr
5. Finish 1 book currently on my reading list – alas, I am renting audio books from the online library and they keep timing out on me, so I ended up on a rotation between Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, and Way of Kings, and didn’t finish any of them.
6. Write 1 log for AI-Lia Antares – It wasn’t a very long one, but I wrote one. I have a lot of ideas for this story but it takes a lot of time to write it because it’s 75% art project and formatting. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, you can read the WIP Intro Here!
7. Post 1 thing to my website each week – I did!! Thank you all for reading! I’ve had a great time working on this!
8. Empy my askbox on tumblr – I think I had something like 15 old ones sitting around about, and answering them was a big help in brainstorming for Laoche. I did this over meals or during breaks in studying when I didn’t have enough time to write, but I had enough time to type up responses on my phone.
9. Write and publish 1 chapter of my fanfic – It only took 2 months for me to finally write finish the half-started chapter so I could mark this off, but I did it. We shall see if I can actually continue the story next month.
10. Edit 1 chapter of Storge – I did like.. the first 3 pages? I’m rewriting the whole thing and this may be the first but I’m sure it will not be the last.

That makes 8/10 creative goals, and 16/22 goals overall, which is great for me, or maybe it’s just because I set easier goals this time. I’m honestly shocked I did that much, though it explains why I’m tired all the time. I think I’ll be adding “go to bed on time” for next month. If you keep goals too, leave a comment and tell me some accomplishments that you’re proud of this month!

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