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Success is about handling the setbacks, problems and mess, over and over.

Sharon Pearson

Pictured above: Pain.

And, no, not just because I’m out of town and don’t have access to anything to make it less ugly. Because of the obvious part – the fact that you could look back to the first entry and see how this is basically just that one shoved into a vise.

Now, a rational human being – you, probably – would look at this and say, hey Tom, I think you’re kinda screwed. You’ve got thirty days to deliver an unknown yet ludicrous number of words just to prepare for NaNoWriMo, where you’ll again have thirty days to deliver a known yet ludicrous number of words.

Well, joke’s on you, I’m an idiot and entirely undeterred. Thirty thousand words for the contract? Another several thousand for plotting out the NaNoWriMo book? A few more thousand in articles? Editing more than seventy thousand to get ready for beta reading? Suit up, ladies and gets, things are about to get messy.

Now, to be fair, the header image is going to be a little outdated. Obviously, with this article I’ll have that checked off and for the purpose of this thing my weeks end on Sunday since that marks the last day of the month. So I still have some time to check things off this week, and I fully intend to. Article, site work, at least 1 chapter of the edit, and half of the contract stuff if not more. Not the highest marks, but passable. Not burying the hatchet in the plans, at least.

For the fun of it, I’ve decided to track “Words Touched” this month. Since I can’t measure everything based on written due to the edit, I’m curious how much I end up consuming / producing over these thirty one days. Doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, but it’ll be an interesting footnote to this little adventure.

Oh, and an update on last week’s article. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like I can add a forum to this WordPress site without upgrading it to a business platform, and as much as I want to, I don’t exactly have the extra $17 a month to throw at a side project right now. Not my favorite outcome, but I’m looking at ways around that. Push comes to shove, I can always just use comments on a monthly post as the sounding board or revert back to Facebook. One of these days I would love to make a real site out of this. Proprietary, with all the bells and whistles, a sweet logo, etc. Emphasis on one of these days. For the time being, gotta make due with what I can.

Anyway, that’s all for the week. If you see me around, wish me luck and give me a quick prayer. I’m gonna need it.