Crossing Fingers: October update

Hey everyone! It's about the midway through the month and I thought I should check in and give an update on how I'm doing with this month's Crossing Fingers Challenge.

 1. 750 Words October Challenge: If you can see from the screen cap I'm doing quite well for myself! I'm so happy that I've stayed diligent with this challenge. It gets easier everyday. I can safely say that besides my blog it's the one thing I do that's personal time. Sometimes I do it when I wake up through my phone, but most of the time it's the first thing that I do before I start on my work. Mostly I write about personal things to get my mind settled so I can concentrate through the day, once in awhile I write my blog posts in it. 750 has been allowing me to find the words to put on the screen much quicker. I might have a fighting chance for NaNoWriMo *knocks on wood as swiftly as possible*

2. Do Art Daily: This is the one I've been falling behind on... Most of my time is taken with my job and being out of the house so I'm not exactly capable of doing anything artistic at 11pm. What I do have to account for for this is my bedroom and study mini makeover that I've been cherishing through this month. I've been moving things around, redecorating, and getting rid of things since everything piled up while I was in college. I also started painting again, but it's not progressing as much as I'd like. I need to really step my game up on this challenge.

3. Show Goodreads Up: I think that only the end of the month will tell on this one. As you can see from the screen cap I'm trudging through a few books at the moment. I was crazy to pick a long book for this month; Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country. I picked it because I stumbled across it in a used book store one weekend. This book NEVER goes on sale and I've been meaning to read it since 2008. The suspense got me in the end... Ugh...

So far not bad, not great either... Still have the rest of the month *Crossing Fingers*
-Stef

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Crossing Fingers: October

Something that I hope to start doing at the beginning of the month are little goals to take me to my goals. What goals? Well... just simple things that make me an overall a better person personally.

College just wiped me out, I was in a cram school where I had no real time to develop myself as a creative person. Since I started school it was this yo yo of inspiration then plateau dry seasons of just working. The greatest asset in all of my jobs IS creativity...

I could sit here beating myself up (that was a few hours ago) or I could just accept it and move on. So I've set myself three simple goals that I hope I can follow through with until the end of the month and longer (Crossing fingers...)

October 2012

1. 750 Words October Challenge: I've survived a couple of these but I haven't been back since February this year. Seriously, anyone wanting to get back into or practice more writing should try this site. It's so therapeutic and as the owner says, "it can be a big mind dump" if you need it to. I'm doing this to make my writing sync naturally with my brain again, no more long pauses...

2. Do Art Daily: Whether a doodle or a craft; something other than writing will be done creatively. Lately my big kick has been redecorating especially as the Fall season upon us makes me want to stay home more. (Pictures to come)

3. Show Goodreads Up: Yes thats right, I'm slightly behind in my reading goal because of the craziness of production season. It urks me that it says I'm behind in my goal. So I want to fix this and stay on track go beyond and be ahead this month. If I dare take the Nanowrimo challenge this year I need to be ahead to keep my reading goal.

The challenge has begun, *Crossing Fingers*
-Stef

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