Progress Report 2020 #1

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It’s Friday... time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.

This one’s a touch different, because it includes the first two days of the year on top of the seven before this.

Words written so far: 14,043

After you remove about 1k-worth of admin from that count, the remaining is divided almost perfectly between two projects. (Which is a win in the focus category).

And the blue portion of the chart below represents the first completion of a story for the year.

Woo!

It would feel like a bigger accomplishment if I hadn't wanted to finish it before NYE, but it's a check on my to-do list, and that's what matters, right?
0 pages edited

 I’ve got to get this started. There are three projects in need of editing with too-close of deadlines to be putting them off the way I have.


What I’m reading
I just started Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron and am very excited to see where it takes me.

And, I just set my Goodreads goal for the year.

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