October over! Third full iteration through TAG complete! 😀🤗😁
For October, I wrote thirty-one “story” entries (one every single day!) and eighteen “nonfiction” entries. I’m pleased! I really enjoy writing nonfiction entries (and contributing towards my corpus for Wobble2) but on some days if I only had enough gas in the tank to knock one out, I prioritized working on my story. I don’t know where it’s all going, but if I manage to keep this pace up, I’ll have accumulated ~80,000 words in roughly seven months, by about May 2021. Of course, it’d only be my first draft but that’d honestly be such an accomplishment, a real dream come true! So I’m giving it the ol’ college try! ✊🔥🚀
As for the month that was, here are my favorite nonfiction entries I wrote these past four weeks.
🍂 Highlights in October 🎃
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- Bruce Wayne: The Batman – The Epitome of the Human Struggle (Wed – Oct 7, 2020)
- Supreme Court Shenanigans (Fri – Oct 16, 2020)
- Classic Tetris World Championships (Mon – Oct 19, 2020)
- The Great Robert Bork: “It Would Be an Intellectual Feast.” (Fri – Oct 23, 2020)
Meanwhile, on the writing-front, here are some first among equals too:
- Write a Novel (Wed – Oct 14, 2020)
- Journaling Every Single Day (Thu – Oct 15, 2020)
- Organization (Tue – Oct 20, 2020)
- Scaffolding, Structuring, and Restructuring (Sat – Oct 24, 2020)
And finally, for housekeeping, I at long last updated my very stale “Begin Here” welcome page on my blog and also added a “Worldbuilding” cheat sheet that helps me keep track of everything going on in my story. After four chapters and ~16k words, things had considerably sprawled to where it was beginning to overflow my brain! 🤯🧠💥
Alrighty, onwards into November! Wohoo! Let’s do this! 🍁🦃🥔🥕🌽
Week One
Week Two
| Date | Entry | Song | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday – Oct 11 | The Fast and the Furious | Fight Song – Rachel Platten | Furious 7 (2015) |
| Monday – Oct 12 | Growing Older | Greater Lights – Advent Rising | Gladiator (2000) |
| Tuesday – Oct 13 | Heaven and Hell | How Far I’ll Go – Auli’i Cravalho | Hotel Artemis (2018) |
| Wednesday – Oct 14 | Write a Novel | It’s Time – Imagine Dragons | The Incredibles (2004) |
| Thursday – Oct 15 | Journaling Every Single Day | Jump – Van Halen | Jingle All the Way (1996) |
| Friday – Oct 16 | Supreme Court Shenanigans | Kether – Arkana | Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) |
| Saturday – Oct 17 | Life: The Mortal Coil – Seasons | Louder – Charice | Limitless (2011) |
Week Three
Week Four
| Date | Entry | Song | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday – Oct 30 | Welcome! | Your Reckless Heart – Joel Hirsch & Sara Skinner | Yes Man (2008) |