Weekend Review #4

I spent the weekend in Fort Myers with my in-laws! It's been such a wonderful trip, and despite the heat, I always love coming to Florida to visit them in the summertime.

We spent a lot of time together, talking, laughing, eating delicious food my mother-in-law made, and giggling about my cute little sister-in-law. Her name is Yofi, she's four years old, and I actually helped pick her out as a baby. How lucky is that? I literally got to choose my sister-in-law!

Mother-in-law carrying Yofi
© Jessica McKendry

Yes, she's a dog, and it's the best!

Isn't she the cutest?

Anyway, we're home now, and getting back into the rhythm of things.

Project Updates

Original Project: Convergence

This week, I struggled the most with coming up with a prayer of mourning for one of my main characters. He is mourning the loss of his teacher, and he has spent an entire year grieving. I wanted him to say something beautiful, something almost poetic for the final prayer of mourning before returning to his duties as a warrior.

Let me tell you, I spent hours coming up with what he'd say, and then I spent another few hours coming up with a whole new language with different syntax and creating grammar rules for it. So I spent a lot of time being creative, but not a whole lot of time actually writing. Which was sort of annoying.

I think this might be the most elaborate form of procrastination I've yet to experience. Still, it was fun.

Fan Fic

I've written so much in Chapter 31 of my fan fic, but I keep erasing everything. It's been such a struggle figuring out how/where to start it. On Sunday, I may have actually figured it out, but we'll see. I may end up erasing it all again later this week.

Last Week's Goals

❌ 2,000 words in Convergence that I actually keep.

Unfortunately, I did not write 2,000 words in Convergence that I ended up keeping. I'm not entirely sure how many words I wrote, but I only kept 739 words. Ugh.

❌ 1,500 words in my Fan Fic that I actually keep.

This one was even worse. I only kept 175 words.

✔️ 2 chapters in Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson.

This was the only goal I actually met this week, and I ended up reading 3 chapters in Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson! I'm really enjoying this book so far, so I'm glad I was able to set aside some time to read it.

This Week's Goals

I thought I was being generous with myself last week, but it looks like I need to lower my expectations even more. Bleh.

This week, I want to:

1. Write 1,000 words in Convergence that I actually keep
2. Write 1,000 words in my Fan Fic that I actually keep
3. Read 2 chapters of Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

Jasper Update

We left Jasper with my parents over the weekend while we were in Florida. We always get worried about him when we travel, since he's technically been abandoned twice, so we don't like to leave him. But he was a very good boy for my parents! No accidents in their house, no getting into stuff he shouldn't, so overall, he gets a five star Good Boy rating for this weekend from me!

Is Jasper missing me?
PC: my mom

What a good boy!

Quote of the Week

Margaret Thatcher
PC: Wikipedia

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

What did you do over the weekend? What are your goals this week?