My resolutions were on the back burner this week. For the first time since surgery, I’m back to working six hour shifts at the pet store. I only had one day off this week which was exhausting but is digging me out of medical debts.
1. Lose 15 pounds. I’m setting myself up for massive failure but I’m skipping weighing in today. I’m sure I’ve gained.
2. Run 365 miles. Another bust. 0.0 miles on the treadmill, and 0.0 on the elliptical machine for a grand total of 13.0 miles for the year.
3. Read 25 works: Three – The Mabinogion, The Drawing of the Dark, and The Three-Body Problem. I’ve started The Castle of Iron by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Prat.
4. Read 75 Lovecraftian short stories: 19.
Algernon Blackwood: “The Wendigo,” “The Willows,” “Accessory Before the Fact,” and “Ancient Lights,”
Robert Bloch: “The Tchen-lam’s Vengeance,” “Unheavenly Twin,” “Lilies,” “Black Lotus,” “Pink Elephants,” and “The Red Swimmer.”
Ramsey Campbell: “The End of a Summer’s Day,” “Potential,” “At First Sight,” “The Sentinels,” “The Guy,” and “The Lost.”
August Derleth: “Open, Sesame,” “A Knocking in the Wall,” and “Come to Me.”
5. Send out 110 manuscripts: 30.
6. Write 50,000 words and five new stories:
3,935 words of fiction,
934 words of scripts,
1,748 of nonfiction =
6,617 total.
7. Produce 55 artworks. Eight.
8. Two video or animation projects. Zero.
9. Support 12 local artists. Three – Christopher L. Bennett’s Arachne’s Exile, Stephen Leigh’s The Abraxas Marvel Circus, and Bryan Kruse’s The Red Mask of Death.
10. 430 blog posts. This makes 82.
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