{"id":8185,"date":"2014-12-21T03:37:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T03:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/21\/how-did-i-do-on-my-goals-for-2014-lets-find\/"},"modified":"2014-12-21T03:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T03:37:22","slug":"how-did-i-do-on-my-goals-for-2014-lets-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/21\/how-did-i-do-on-my-goals-for-2014-lets-find\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>how did I do on my goals for 2014? let&rsquo;s find out&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>(extra positivity inside &#8211; where I didn&rsquo;t complete something, I went ahead and said what I did instead that was cool.)<!-- more --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>e<\/strong><strong>dit and self-publish\u00a0<em>First Run <\/em><\/strong>&#8211; <strong>aiming for<\/strong>: up on Amazon by the end of August\/beginning of September. <strong>actual<\/strong>: I&rsquo;ve halfway paid an editor, and she has it right now, with an ETA of January for the completed first pass. so this&rsquo;ll roll over into 2015, which is cool &#8211; book publishing always takes at least 3x what you intended\/wanted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>faithfully write my chapters of<\/strong> <em>Return to Elgin <\/em>&#8211; no, but instead I <strong>wrote 50k words on another novel<\/strong>, <em>Daugment<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>get my license\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; no, but instead I <strong>relearned my scales and absorbed\/practiced some music theory.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>participate in the one-month game challenge<\/strong> &#8211; no, but instead I <strong>learned how to cook with Indian spices.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>take my supplements regularly<\/strong> &#8211; no, and there&rsquo;s no excuse.<\/li>\n<li><strong>exercise at least 4x weekly<\/strong> &#8211; I got pretty close to this, actually! I had a couple of hiatuses, but there were periods where I was a little more gentle with myself and I had to learn that too. but in general I walk at least three miles a day between meetings and such, and I dance or do yoga in between.<\/li>\n<li><strong>take a martial arts class<\/strong> &#8211; no, but instead I <strong>went rockclimbing for the first time in a decade.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>read 35 books<\/strong> &#8211; check and check!<\/li>\n<li><strong>try at least one new recipe every week<\/strong> &#8211; I feel leaps and bounds more competent in the kitchen now. I did <em>make <\/em>at least one recipe per week, which I consider a win.<\/li>\n<li><strong>change my last name<\/strong> &#8211; check and check!<\/li>\n<li><strong>develop a novel concept with Patrick<\/strong> &#8211; no, but instead I <strong>became technical director for a talk show.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>participate in NaNoWriMo 2014<\/strong> &#8211; check. though I didn&rsquo;t win, I&rsquo;m really happy with the concept, and the (oft critical) people I&rsquo;ve pitched it to have liked it as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>help Jake get his short made<\/strong> &#8211; no, but instead I <strong>helped develop a trailer concept for my book<\/strong> that Jake and his animators are gonna make.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how did I do on my goals for 2014? let&rsquo;s find out&hellip; (extra positivity inside &#8211; where I didn&rsquo;t complete something, I went ahead and said what I did instead that was cool.) edit and self-publish\u00a0First Run &#8211; aiming for: up on Amazon by the end of August\/beginning of September. actual: I&rsquo;ve halfway paid an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/21\/how-did-i-do-on-my-goals-for-2014-lets-find\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4503,4505,4500,4508,4507,4506,4504,4509,4501,4502,939],"class_list":["post-8185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-and-they-were-like-well-besides-you","tag-geez","tag-goals2014","tag-i-like-lists","tag-i-resemble-that-remark","tag-okay","tag-psh","tag-resolutions","tag-soon-to-be-goals-2015","tag-work-peeps-were-all-like-psh-who-really-has-lists-i-was-like-uh-me","tag-writerlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}