Monthly Archives: July 2015

Singledom

Reasons I’m single:

  • I’m picky
  • I’m insecure (about my body, among other things…maybe it’s time to go to a gym)
  • When I meet a guy I determine his friendship potential instead of relationship potential (maybe it’s time to change my outlook >.<)
  • I deflect compliments automatically (see #2) which makes the guy think I’m not into him
  • I make a lot of excuses for why that guy isn’t right
  • I automatically see the demise of the relationship and find reasons why it won’t work out
  • When a guy expresses interest in me, I laugh it off and discuss what a great friend he is or deflect

Now I have a list of habits to change.

I Bought Myself a Dragon

After reading Elizabeth’s post on Kboards, “1 Week Training My Dragon” I went ahead and bought my own Dragon.

The Dragon I’m referring to is Dragon NaturallySpeaking program that I can dictate to and will transcribe my ramblings. I was encouraged to purchase the program in the aim of writing more words. I waste a lot of time and it would be helpful if I could tape whenever I didn’t have a laptop around and have it transcribed later.

So far, my Dragon and I have worked together for about half an hour. He hasn’t shared his name with me yet. I didn’t see any increase pace, if anything it was the opposite. It was slow going and frustrating at times when I couldn’t make myself understood.

Despite the frustration, it was funny when I realized my Dragon couldn’t dictate “aunt” whenever I said it. Every time I would say the word I would get a completely different one instead. At one point Dragon typed “goat”.

Aunt. Goat. Aunt. Goat. Aunt. Goat. Aunt. Goat.

I really don’t hear myself pronouncing them the same at all!

I’m on a tight schedule at the moment so I don’t have much time to train my Dragon but I’m hoping I can after ten days. That’s my deadline for finishing my edits.

 

Relationship Status: Single

It hit me yesterday, striking me out of the blue.

The desire to be in a relationship. The wish to have attended the event with someone by my side.

I’ve resisted it for a long time, because I prefer being single than being with the wrong person but yesterday I caught myself looking at couples wistfully. And it took me aback. Why? Because I was never that girl who wanted to be in a relationship. I always cherished my freedom. I loved it. I enjoyed it to the fullest. I preferred being by myself than wasting time with the wrong person. I saw how many of my friends and acquaintances had shackled themselves to the wrong person. And truth be told, I always felt a little smug that I hadn’t fallen into that trap and made the same mistake they had.

But yesterday was different.

I wanted to be part of an “us”. I wanted to show up with a special someone by my side. I wanted to laugh at jokes the host and hostess told and catch his eye sharing our own secret smile.

It caught me completely by surprise.

It looks like I’ll have to do something about it.

July’s “To Do” List

I have a lot of projects that I want to work on during the month of July. It’s going to be a busy month. Here are some of the things I need to complete:

1-Misty Hills sequel

I have an Edit scheduled at the end of the month so priority goes to polishing up a respectable draft of the Misty Hills sequel. This novel has had its ups and downs. I’m not happy with the draft I submitted for the original edit so I have to focus on getting a quality copy out.

2-Camp NANOWRIMO 

Camp NANOWRIMOI’m going to use Camp NANOWRIMO to make sure I write daily. My project, YW #2, is the sequel to the novel I started last year and didn’t finish at last year’s camp (mentioned below). I’ve got a new set of KBoard people in the cabin so I’m looking forward to forging some new friendships.

3-YW Project #1

I have to rewrite YW Project #1. I’m starting with 28,766 words. The goal is to have a 60K manuscript by the end of the month.

4-Outline the third novel in the Misty Hills series

This is important because I may need to incorporate details into the sequel. If it’s not done correctly, I may be shooting myself in the foot. I’m a pants-er by nature so outlining will be a challenge but I read a really good book recently and I’m looking forward to incorporating the techniques I studies on to the third book.

Have I put too much on my plate? I think it is a lot but it will come down to time management. I have to start prioritizing writing to social functions. We’ll see if I manage to complete these four goals by month’s end.