Photo Copyright: Mishal Ibrahim
July 15 – 19, 2019

• Monday

  – Washed all bedding, including cat’s
  – Post and balance bills
  – Write
  – Enjoyed the overwhelming feeling of accomplishments

• Tuesday

  – Accompany Hubby for Pain Management injection
  – Take Hubby to lunch after injection
  – Drive home and take a much-needed nap
  – At bedtime, awakened by Hubby complaining about feeling hot and thinking he was having an allergic reaction to the meds. He informed me that he might die during the night.
  – Slept restlessly.

• Wednesday

  – Write
  – Write
  – Felt good about current work in progress
  – Received another rejection

• Thursday

  – Reassessed current work in progress
  – Feelings of not hitting the mark for the topic
  – Not writing
  – Apply the first coat of stain to the dresser.
  – More re-assessing
  – Researched other submission resources that actually pay, remembered the good feeling of being paid when ghostwriting…
  – Tried to remember my goal of building an author page on Amazon. To achieve that I must be published in anthologies, which so far, I’ve only three stories published in two anthologies.
  – Resolved to submit my rejected stories elsewhere. Time to move onward.
  – Looking at doing some ghostwriting, but feeling that that is a step backwards.

• Friday

  – Same old Friday chores
  – Return to work-in-progress, let it flow.
  – Do something for me to lift my spirit.
  – Order baby shower gift!!!
  – Make a plan for next week:

  – No writing! Take a step back!
  – Physical labour work!
  – 2nd coat of stain on the dresser
  – Reset scaffold height and begin masking living room beams

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill