January 2014 Goals

Overall 2014 Goal: 50,000 Words

0,000 / 5,000 Words

Challenges

1. Complete 7 days of Consistency at 140 Words a Day. (0/7 days)
2. Complete New Moon, New Year Challenge. (0/900 words)
3. Complete Full Moon Madness Challenge. (0/1,000 words)
4. Complete 5k Weekend Challenge. (0/2,500 words)

Other

1. Make January 5k Weekend Icons.

2. Make February 5k Weekend Icons.

3. Post January 5k Weekend Challenge.

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Okay, I realize that if I do JUST the three challenges listed, I will have 4,400 words for the month. I also realize that with my overall goal at 50k, I only have to write 137 words a day, which comes out to 4,167 words a month. By only doing the three challenges, I will surpass that. But I know how I am. Hopefully January will be good to me, like it has in the past. This post may be updated with other challenges as they are posted. Also, I did already make the January icons. I added it just to cross it off!

Wanna Hear About My Distractions?

Wanna hear about my distractions? Sure you do!

Let's see: 

1. I have a three year old. I homeschool him.

2. I have a 8 month old. Need I say more? Well, I do. She was born premature. She also has a rare condition and sees about 4 different specialists because of it. I feel like I run her to more appointments than I can keep track of! Not to mention, she has daily therapy with me and once a week with her therapist.

3. I have left my husband and am now a single mother. I live with my parents currently.

So between those three MAJOR distractions, I don't seem to have a lot of time to write. In fact, since March, I haven't done a whole lot of writing. I think it was just the stress of everything. But now I am squeezing in writing time. I have been blogging more than writing lately, but I did finish something for the AugNo Anthology. I'm not ENTIRELY sure how proud I am of it, but being I was squeezing in writing time after the kids went to bed before I crashed, I think it was a good jumping off point.

I also managed to write about 12k for NaNo this year. I was pretty impressed with this. I did some of it on my phone because I downloaded the Google Drive app and decided to write in Drive. Yeah, there are issues with using the app, like it doesn't word count and I'm doing it from my phone and even with SWIPE, it sometimes is difficult to get the correct words out

As you can see, my distractions keep me pretty busy. That's why this blog is titled "Easily Distracted." Not because I have ADD or anything like that, but because my life tends to explode and I am distracted from writing. Hopefully 2014 won't be as crazy as 2013 was and I'll be able to write at least 50k in words. I'll be doing a yearly goal post here soon. But until then, this should hold you over!