Blog: 2024 October Goal Progress

Blog: 2024 October Goal Progress

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Quarter 4 of 2024 started in October. I posted my goals for the quarter three weeks ago. This post will be a continuation of that post—specifically, I’ll be going through my accomplishments (and misses) from the first month of the quarter. 

I made a list of things I wanted to get done in the fourth quarter. Here’s what I did in October of 2024:

Goals

  • Release Newsletter. I missed the deadline of November 1st. I’m pushing it back to December 1st, and I’m really hoping to release Man’s Best Friend (my reader magnet) alongside the first newsletter. After the first one, the newsletter will come every month on the 1st.
  • Blog Weekly. I’ve done great with this. I have actually been keeping a couple posts ahead of schedule so I don’t get overwhelmed with the schedule. I ran out of posts this week, though. So I’ve got to get a new backlog going.
  • Post Mindfully. My focus has mostly been on Bluesky, but I took a few days off of social media because of the American election—for my mental health. I’ll be back to it before this blog post goes live.
  • Draft Man’s Best Friend. This story was initially going to be a short story, but it’s quickly approaching novella length. The plan is still to release it as my reader magnet for my newsletter. My first newsletter will also include a link to it. Fingers crossed I get it done, beta read, and edited before the end of November.

Reading

  • Read: The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo. I finished this book on October 17th. I’ll be writing up a review of it very soon, which I will post here, to Storygraph, and to Goodreads. 
  • Start Reading: Broken Sky by Morgan K. Bell. I started this one halfway through the month, but I’m not very far in. I’m going to try to finish it before the end of November.

Words

  • Goal. My goal for October was 10,000 words. 
  • Total. I wrote 15,558 words, putting me over my goal by 5,558 words. 

Overall, I’m happy with what I accomplished in October. I’m not going to beat myself up for the things I missed, because, in the end, I did really well. I was productive and I did well keeping up with my peers on social media. November is the next milestone. To the next month of progress!

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