Weekly Writing Intentions: Saturday, October 21, 2023

Daily Diary: , Day 1146:

Another week where I did a good job of meeting my exercise goals, despite last Sunday when I spent the morning getting some heart tests so I only got in my evening walk. So, by end of the week, I had averaged 98 minutes of exercise a day, with two walks a day and pilates exercise 5 days. So, again my intention is to keep up this pace.

Writing, sigh, not so good at meeting my goals. In fact, I did much worse than the week before, only writing a total of 1660 words this week. Part of the problem was that I was not feeling all that great for a couple of days after spending last Saturday morning getting my heart tested by administering a caffeine like stimulant to my body.

Other obstacles to productivity were unforeseen miscellaneous stuff, like tracking down some fraudulent credit card bills, and a number of unscheduled phone calls. Finally, when I did get back into writing, I got stuck rewriting a scene because it just didn’t work for me. Yesterday, I did finally move onto the next chapter, so I hope that is a good sign!

Obviously, my intention for this coming week is to do a better job of not getting bogged down on tinkering with the writing and not adding any more phone calls to those already scheduled. In addition, I will remind myself that every morning I can push reset for the day, and all the deadlines are mine, so I can always change them.

Addendum: I wrote much of the above post last evening, and looking back at it, it sounded dispirited. Yet this morning, it is now 10:30; and I am feeling quite productive, and ready to start writing. I have spent 70 minutes (in chunks) doing my thorough clean of the upstairs that I usually do on Friday, and everything looks sparkling—at least for a moment. I have also done my 30 minute walk, cleaned up the kitchen, done a load of laundry and showered. Having now heated up my cup of pur-erh (highly caffeinated tea), I am ready to start doing some writing sprints, and I have no scheduled phone calls at all today! So, hopefully I will be able to report a good start to the week in terms of writing.

I also intend on enjoying the fact that the days have been sunny and the nights cool, perfect for the weeks leading up to Halloween, and here is another fun decorations I got last evening, showing some lighted ghosts and a cat.