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Forgot that I had to train someone today... and then also found out that I'll be training a different person tomorrow.

My throat is going to want to DIE. 8 hours of training today + 6 hours tomorrow is way more talking than I'm used to, ha.

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I hit my 15k goal for Camp NaNo yesterday. Going to still try for the 500 words/day for the rest of the week... I haven't finished the fourth chapter of my current WIP yet, so I'm "behind" in terms of my goal somewhat. The hope had been for one rough draft chapter per week, and the fourth week being a start on the second draft. Buuuuut these chapters have all wound up longer than I predicted, so I'm not too bothered. I am going to maybe have to adjust my goal calendar, though.

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Finally caught up with DW from my weekend away!

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Have sort of a "need to get it together" feeling. I think it's probably just because my weekend was so busy - I feel like I haven't had a real day off in a long while. That's objectively not true, but all of my days off for the last few weeks have seemed like they were taken up by having to do SOMETHING. Even when the something was fun, I haven't had time to put into things I want to work on or get ahead with. (Mostly I am talking about writing. But even reading. Even cleaning!)

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Sounds like you'll need ginger tea or some other concoction with ginger and honey for your throat tomorrow. Good luck! :)

Yay for 15k! :D I've been tracking my own writing in terms of days, so I currently have no idea what chapter I'm on outside of a rough estimate based on the word count. (Maybe chapter 4 or 5? My chapters are generally between 3-4k words.)

Gosh, I need to catch up on my reading and cleaning, too. ^^;;

Luckily my throat was spared! The training was postponed until probably next week.

I'm glad I hit the 15k, for sure! I have a fairly vague outline that split things up into chapters, which is probably the only reason I've kept track. My chapter length seems to vary wildly... these last couple are in the 5k range, when the first was half that!

I feel like I need to take a week off of work just so I can catch up on everything else in my life! Of course, if I do take any amount of time off, I want it to be to *do* something, so that's not going to happen, lol.

Oof, that is a lot of talking.

Congrats on hitting a Camp NaNo goal.

It's good to get stuff done, but it's also good to have brain downtime.

Luckily my voice was spared today! Training has been postponed, probably until next week sometime.

Thank you!

Yeah, I feel like brain downtime has been very lacking lately. Even though most of my time has been doing fun things, I need time where I can do no things.

Yes, just like zone out on carpet cleaning videos... or something. I am bad at giving my brain downtime. I am working on it.

Brain downtime is hard! Especially if there's lingering "I should be doing..." guilt. Objectively I know and recognize that "take a break, it's actually a vital thing to avoid burnout and helps in the long run" is common advice for a reason, but... it's hard!