I filed my tax return yesterday. Outside of finalising, publishing and sharing yesterday’s blog post, this was the first thing I did. Despite me doing all of the leg work by the end of Tuesday, it still took me some time to negotiate the new boxes on the self-assessment form. But I did it.
The rest of the day was spent reviewing the month of October. I decided against writing a Take One Idea for every month’s-worth of writing prompts, instead pointing to previous suggestions instead.
I didn’t have very much news for October, so I’ll either do a newsletter for November, or round everything up for a special Christmas bumper edition at the end of the year.
I didn’t write any book reviews, but I did read quite a few books.
I didn’t manage to work on a whole story per week either.
I did have a trip away with the poet. I spent a lot of time on the new spreadsheet. And I spent a lot of time on my tax return.
October wrap-up
Here’s how my October went:
- new word-count spreadsheet for October ✔️
- TAKE ONE IDEA FOR MARCH ✔️
- WRITING PROMPTS FOR APRIL ✔️
- TAKE ONE IDEA FOR APRIL ❌
- 2 book reviews ❌
- newsletter ❌
- CATCH THE RAINBOW ✔️
- 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS ✔️
- 5 stories over 5 weeks (inc. 12 STORIES) ❌
- client proofread: Holocaust book ✔️
- (week) daily blog post ✔️
- (week) daily tech declutter ✔️
- weekly diary work ✔️
- potential work trip to Horsham (with the poet) ✔️
- Monkey Dust admin ✔️
- Diane’s gig list admin every Thursday ✔️
- 2 Monkey Dust gigs ❌
- monthly schedule planning for November ✔️
- THE SECRET OF WHITEHORSE FARM ✔️
- advance finances for November ✔️
Extras:
- new 12-project spreadsheet ✔️
- tax return ✔️
Words written and pages edited:
- total new words written = 46,182
- pages proof-read = 57
How was your October?
Maybe your rhythms are changing, and you don’t need to push as hard as you did a few years ago. YOu got a lot done, and had time for fun, too.
I’m working on the rhythm and it is getting better, more regular, more of a rhythm. But I’m also reducing the number of projects I work on in any one day. I don’t have the energy for so many different projects these days, but nor do I have the need, as you say.