What am I celebrating this week?
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It's the first Wednesday of the month so it's time for the Insecure Writers Support Group!
Thant to the awesome co-hosts for the February 1 posting of the IWSG, Jacqui Murray, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Pat Garcia, and Gwen Gardner!
And here's this month's question:Can you believe January is almost over? How fast did that happen? Crazy!
It's a public holiday next Monday, so I'm taking Friday off to get a 4-day weekend. It seems a little crazy to do it now, when the year has hardly begun, but I figure I should take any opportunity for time off I can get before July or so because that's when my job is going to get insane for about seven months.
So I'm going to use that Friday as a writing day and I'm finally going to nail those revisions on Guide Us that I need to tackle. I figure I just need to add a few little bits and pieces here and there through the MS, and possibly an extra chapter toward the end. Then I think I'll be done.
Weather is looking a little iffy this week (but at least we're not having floods like they've had in Auckland over the weekend) so I'm not sure if I'll be able to ride to work every day or not. I'll give it a go though! Fingers crossed I don't get another puncture while riding in the rain the way I did on Friday. That was annoying.
And that's about it for goals this week. Do you have any you'd like to share?
There are a few things I want to try and do this week, especially since it's a public holiday today and I have an extra day of weekend to use. I haven't been waiting that much this summer and I want to experiment with using a blow drier as a brush more. I've not been successful with this technique yet, so plan to spend some time playing with it and with paints of different thicknesses to try and figure out why my paintings using this technique never look the way other fluid artists' do.
I plan to write at least one piece of flash fiction, if not more. I've been enjoying the challenge of working with a prompt on the writing website I use. I give myself a half hour to write a story of 1,000 words or less and see where it takes me. They're obviously not works of art, but if they're any good, I can work more on them to make them into something else.
The weather was kind last week and let me ride into work every day I wanted to. I plan to ride in every day this week too, so long as the weather continues to co-operate.
What are your goals this week?