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Health and Fitness

I exercised 23 times this month, most of that while watching “Pursuit of Jade” for ~60 minutes. I did so well on exercise that I slacked off a bit at the end of the month, only exercising 4 times out of the last 8 days. 

Dailies

I wanted to focus on Moving A Thing To Completion this month, and picked A Game to You as the current path of least resistance. So for most of the month, I’d edit for as long as I was willing to do anything creative, rather than switching to a different activity for the sake of the checkbox. So I had 25 days with some editing.

Near the end of the month, I started making low-effort comics, so I checked off drawing for those. Plus I did one or two other things with drawing, so that got me to 10.

Working on an outline or a rough draft was the heaviest lift (although I wrote several new scenes for A Game to You, but counted that under editing). Only 5 days of these, and one was counting the low-effort comics for it. The low-effort comics are so low-effort that I’m not sure they should even count for drawing some days. :D 

Writing

A tiny bit of progress on A Dragon’s Secret, to 61,600, so 900 words. 

June 24 is “Make a Terrible Comic Day”, so I made a comic for that day using Zhenshay and Moon, the characters I was brainstorming about last month. Afterwards, I wanted an excuse to make more low-effort comics and stumbled on a blog post for a “gentle comics habit”. I did not succeed at following the actual method the blog poster used, but I did start making one comparatively low-effort comic per day. I ended up counting this comic as writing for one day in June. I didn’t count it as “writing” every day I did it because there isn’t a whole lot of actual text to the process. 

Business of Writing

The bulk of my creative time went to editing A Game to You, which is now up to 66% complete (from 45% last month). Another two months and I might actually finish the second draft.

Art

Apart from the low-effort comics, I drew an Olive fanart and finished the Gongsun Yin fanart. I also drew a page of cartoon void kitties because Anke posted the most adorable tutorial ever and I had to follow it INSTANTLY. Please admire the tutorial https://mastodon.art/@Anke/116744624947961187 and then go forth and make your own void kitties.

Reading

I finished season 1 of Chocolate Snow and read some assorted manwha throughout June, as I usually do. Then on the last day of the month I dropped everything to dive headlong into reading the Heaven Official’s Blessing novels, which are even now still eating my brain. 

Social

Continuing to go to Wyndsong on Fridays and visit Envoy once a week for additional video-watching.

June Goal Scorecard

• Provide care for Dad: Done!
• Actually take Dad to the ultrasound appointment on June 11 instead of spacing out about it a second time: Done!
• Do June withdrawal from brokerage and pay June bills: Done!
• Pay quarterly estimated taxes by June 15: Done!
• Complete one(1) creative stretch goal: I completed two ha take that stretch goals

June Stretch Goals

• Got A Game to You past 60% edited
• Checked off 40 boxes for creative activities on the habit tracker
• Exercised 23 times
• Kept the habit tracker updated
• Read some fiction, including most of a novel, and updated my Storygraph

July Goals

The June approach of "Extremely Modest Goals" seems to have worked out, so I'll stick with it. I got about as much done in June as I did in May, but I didn’t feel as stressed about it. Good enough.

• Provide care for Dad
• Enjoy Eliyahu’s visit (they’re coming from July 11 to August 9
• Take Dad to July 17 audiologist appointment
• Make acupuncture appointment for Dad
• Do July withdrawal from brokerage and pay July bills
• Complete one creative stretch goal

July Stretch Goals

• Figure out middle and denouement for Kingslayer
• Refine editing list for The Jewel-Strewn Night
• Get A Game to You to 81% edited
• Write 10,000 words of A Dragon's Secret
• Check off 40 boxes on the bullet journal for writing/editing/drawing
• Make 20+ low-effort comics
• Any of my other usual stretch goals