{"id":591,"date":"2016-01-19T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2016-01-19T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:06:26","slug":"19-days-in-how-are-those-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/19\/19-days-in-how-are-those-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"19 days in &#8211; how are those targets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose one of my &#8216;start of year&#8217; targets (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/welcome-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/welcome-2016\/<\/a>) should have been to make myself more accountable. Well, here goes. How am I doing?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2714\ufe0e 1. to write one short story a week for the whole year (a.k.a. the Bradbury Challenge) <\/span><br \/>\nYes! I&#8217;ve written 4 shorts in my linked series, and 7 (yes, seven!) pieces of flash fiction, one of which will be uploaded one day soon.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2714\ufe0e 2. to write 100,000 words @ 1,000 words a day (a.k.a. #100kwords100days <\/span><br \/>\nYes! I&#8217;m doing well, and certainly up to date, and in fact, slightly ahead. I also doing a 365k challenge for the whole year. Mad, I know.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u238b 3. to do first edits on two previously-completed novels<\/span><br \/>\nNothing more on this one yet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u238b 4. to self-publish two collections of short fiction for halloween and Christmas\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nNothing yet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2718 5. to write a blog post once per week (minimum)<\/span><br \/>\nOops.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u238b 6. to write book and short story reviews on the blog<\/span><br \/>\nSoon. Honest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2714\ufe0e 7. to be more active on Goodreads, posting reviews etc.<\/span><br \/>\nIf you count logging in, updating my friends list and checking off my latest book, then yes, I&#8217;ve been more active.<\/p>\n<p>So, all-in-all, not too bad. Some things are to be done later in the year, which is understandable, but apart from activity here, I&#8217;m doing well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose one of my &#8216;start of year&#8217; targets (see\u00a0http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/welcome-2016\/) should have been to make myself more accountable. Well, here goes. How am I doing? \u2714\ufe0e 1. to write one short story a week for the whole year (a.k.a. the Bradbury Challenge) Yes! I&#8217;ve written 4 shorts in my linked series, and 7 (yes, seven!) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[31,33,22,32,24,25],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","tag-accountability","tag-annual-goals","tag-micro-fiction","tag-my-writing","tag-short-fiction","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5y3CH-9x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}