Category: Daily Work

Daily Work

March 24 – Almost Like a Day Off

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The writing challenge I’m involved in is to write a certain number of words 5/7 days per week. I’ve written 6 days this week, so I took that writing off. I did get my devotional done, late, after sleeping in. The devotional was 422 words. I also finished editing the short story for the local author anthology. My  local writers group had helped me look at the first draft. I hope I addressed their concerns. I got the idea one morning and wrote the first draft pretty quickly.

Morning Devotional of 422 words: March 24 – Seeing Needs Around Us

Tomorrow will be a busy day: church, nursing home Bible Study, then evening church.

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March 23 – Making Progress

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I’m making progress. I did my morning devotional, although I was running a bit late, and then got my challenge writing done. Instead of working on the short story that had given me writer’s block, I worked on a different one for a local anthology and edited a little over half today. I should finish tomorrow, although tomorrow will be a busy day. Deadline to submit that work is March 31. Considering how my penchant in the past was to procrastinate, the fact that I’m almost done is amazing.

Today’s Devotional was 470 words: March 23 – Give In to Temptation or Trust and Obey?

The challenge writing was 467 words and I’m never sure how to count editing.

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March 22 – Kindergartners, Dogs, and Cooking

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I got off to a good start today. I got breakfast taken care of. I wrote my devotional. I got the 400+ words for my challenge done. Then, I needed to go and tutor. I tutor Kindergartners at a local school. I think we all need to give back to our community, and I do that by teaching kids chess and tutoring kindergartners – among other things. Then I shopped for meals through Saturday night. When I got home and ready to write, my daughter’s dog decided I needed canine companionship, so she slept against my legs most of the rest of the afternoon. For some reason, that makes it difficult for me to write and I didn’t go forward any more on my main short story. I was reminded that there’s another anthology for local writers that I’m trying to submit to, and the deadline is SOON! so tomorrow I need to edit that story after I get everything else done. When my wife returned home after a board meeting, I had to cook. We’re trying to eat healthier – which means a lot more work. If it helps us feel better and healthier, it’s worth it!

Daily Devotional: 393 words. March 22 – In The Presence of the Lord

Challenge writing – 429 words

Daily Work, Request, Rwanda Trip

March 21 – Re-imagining and Writer’s Block

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Timing worked better this morning. I got the devotional and the challenge writing done early today. Then, I went to my short story where I’m dealing with notes from an editor that are causing me to make some changes and I stared at where I left off. Then, I did something else. Then I went back, and I did something else. Finally, I wrote about 350 words…and every one of them was a struggle.

Devotional: 415 Words –  March 21 – Out With the Old, In With the New

Challenge Writing / Back Story – 556 words

Main Short Story – 350 words.

I need to keep on writing…..

I did get a nice offer to help us with our trip to Rwanda. Driftwood Coffee will be helping us out of the proceeds from their web based sales from April and May.  Fine coffee, beautiful mugs, and cool T-shirts. Check them out!

Daily Work

March 20 – Spring Fever

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I think Spring Fever is the only way to excuse yesterday. I took a long time writing my devotional. My challenge writing (400 words per day) wasn’t finished til the afternoon. I forgot to work on supper that I was supposed to put in the crockpot. I ended up with zero words on my short story. I got distracted by someone talking about a move made in the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship and followed that instead of working. Then, I put everything aside and didn’t even write this last night.

Word count: Devotional: 414 Words. March 20 – God’s Ways Compared To Our Ways

Back Story Word Count for the challenge: 444 Words – and I discovered I hadn’t sent those words in yet. ::sigh::

Yesterday, I did the kind of work that would have deserved a reprimand from my employer…and since my employer is me, I’ve given myself a severe reprimand and a warning that I could have been fired. Fortunately, my employer decided not to fire me this time. I’d better work hard the next few days.