Fortunately a work injury means I haven't been allowed to run so my schedule's cleared of cycling and marathon training, giving me a lot more writing time after work. Unfortunately I'm editing so those hours don't correlate with output. Regretting choosing a word count goal over a time goal.

This video is so good that I had to keep pausing it as chunks of poetry rose up from their dusty boxes in my mind.

4th weekend of 2025 and I'm on track with my goals. I've set up a weekly wordcount total in my writing spreadsheet because I'm aiming for 7k/week rather than 1k a day every day. Just 1063 to write today (Sunday) and I've got a fun scene lined up in my small town friends-to-lovers :)

You won’t eradicate us with your hate and executive orders. #stoptheoligarchy

Wonderful news for me (i.e. everyone invested in my goal of writing 7k a week): I hit the weekend ahead of goal! No need to scramble to catch up 🥰
I've also maintained my 40km weekly running base and 3 weekly gym sessions. Doing so well that I estimate I'm one week away from getting a major cold.

Second Scrambling Sunday when I try to catch up on my goal of writing 7000 words a week. This week is not great: 3901 words to go 😱
Also the laundry, a 9km recovery run and my treat day at the gym where I do all the exercises I didn't fit into the rest of the week.
This is my dream life ngl.

My 2025 writing goal is to write every day, and average 1000 words a day. So today is the first off what I hope will become a weekly tradition: the Scrabbling Sunday, where I furiously try to hit 7000 words for the week.

For a year and a half I've been using a workaround for apostrophes/quotation marks because the key stopped working on my second-hand keyboard. I finally bought a new keyboard, and had the same issue. It's not the keyboard, it's the computer. It took one minute to fix. Deeply embarrassing.