w44 sunday review (entering winter mode)

I knew I wanted to do the November writing challenge so I cleared the decks of everything else & it feels like those dim days between Christmas and New Year when nobody needs anything of you & every hour is the same as every other hour.

But without mince pies.

The week from my habit tracker - oh man. 4, 3, 3, 5, 2, 3. that's a week score of 33% & I find it hilarious that the numbers call this a fail because life is so good. Six, seven years ago, and all my working life, a bad day would mean I had stayed in bed with the curtains closed, chain-eating sweets and despairing.

And yesterday evening I was laughing at myself for getting to 8pm with nothing off my List done. I was like 'man, that was a failure of a day!' & then realised that I was clean and dressed, I had cooked and seasoned a meal with food groups in it, I had opened the curtains, washed up, read a little, cuddled the dogs - & the failure is that I hadn't written or studied. My failure day now was my lifestyle goal six years ago. I do everything I enjoy, and I enjoy everything I do. That's immense.

We're into November now.

It's fully dark here at 5pm. It's stew season. Until March, my day lists should have a maximum of three items.

That was week... 9 of the 12-week year. Yeah, it was due to finish week 47, so there's three weeks left. Look back at the goals. Hedge down (not happened), four stories finished and uploaded (happened), study and track in public (happening). So I can choose, here: do I want to make three more weeks about not-doing-the-hedge? or do I want to cut it off there, let myself go into winter maintenance mode, start a new pattern?

Pretty obvious which I would prefer, I think.

OK. I thank and release the 12-week-year project, it has taught me a lot, I will take some of the tools and methods forwards with me even if I never touch the actual structure again.

So November is about keysmashing 2000-or-so words a day of the dragon story, and some kind of baseline maintenance of house, household, body, the physical realm. There's also an assignment due for my course but the module design is so bad I can't even describe it to you so maybe I'll fail. And zero people will be affected if I do. Isn't that nice?