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Health/Fitness
Ate more when I wasn’t hungry this month. Exercised a tiny bit more, too. Managed 19 days of at least minimal aerobics plus 1 day where I just stretched.

Writing
The Jewel-Strewn Night is at 60% complete now. Draft is up to 48,200, up 15,400 from last month. Draft remains on track to be 80,000 words.

I wrote some Apothecaria, but not very much. It’s at 37,100, up about 6,200. Because I spend so much more time illustrating than writing, the written journal is still waaaaay ahead of the illustrated journal. I’ve got around 26 more entries to illustrate before I run out (if I don’t write more). I expect I will write more before that happens.

The Business of Writing
My first readers finished reading Alien Peacelords, yay! I went through all of the comments and made my final editing list. It is very long. I have started it but haven’t gotten very far. It’s about 5%

Commentary that amused me:

Me, in the “questions for first readers” section at the end of the book: ‘I feel like there’s too much sex at the end of the book, what do you think, should I cut out some of the sex?’

First readers: ‘Really there needs to be more sex at the end of the book.’

Well. Okay then.

Art
I illustrated many Apothecaria entries this month. So many. Twenty-nine entries, looks like? I’ve continued to post one every day, but I haven’t necessarily drawn one every day. Sometimes I draw two or there and sometimes I draw zero.

Oh, and I completely forgot until I looked at my bullet journal for the month: I did the “Portrait Challenge”, which meant I watched a bunch of Paintable tutorial videos and completed a portrait following them.

Reading
I finished reading terrycloth’s “Summoning Ocellus” (he posted it to FiMFiction when I was partway through reading the .docx version; I finished reading the .docx for Maximum Commentage). I’m basically current on Alien Tastes (do need to read Sunday’s entry still). I started a published book but we’ll see if I actually finish it.

Goal Scorecard for Prior Month

Help Lut: Done!
Keep in touch with Terrycloth: Done!
Exercise 13 times (aerobic): Done!
At least 7 more times of “exercise” that can be just stretching for five minutes: Done!
Make entries in bullet journal for at least 20 days: Done!
Make final editing list for Alien Peacelords: Done!
Start final edits on Alien Peacelords: Done!
Complete 60% of The Jewel-Strewn Night: Done!

Stretch goals:

Consumption tracking: I did this one, with somewhat more accuracy than usual, even.
Maintain bullet journal for entire month: Done
Practice art (bonus stretch goal: total of 15 hours of practice): Between Apothecaria entries and the portrait, got in around 32 hours of practice this month.
Finish reading a story I haven’t read before: Done!
Play Apothecaria: Done!
Illustrate Apothecaria entries: Done!

Goals for Next Month

My June goals are:

Care for Lut
Keep in touch with Terrycloth
Keep in touch with parents

aaaand that's it.

For the last week and a half, I've been planning to have no creative goals for June. I'm not even gonna set non-creative goals like "exercise." No stretch goals either. Instead, I will make a list of 'things I might like to do and/or have done'. The difference between this and a goal list is that a goal list is a plan, and this is a reference list to check when I'm bored so I can see if anything on it sounds like fun. I'm even going to include items that are purely "this might be fun" and where I don't remotely care if I ever do them or not.

Bored? Maybe Try One of These

Play (Terra Nil, Wandering Village, Boyfriend Dungeon, RftG. Apothecaria, 4thewords)
Read (webcomics, Hoopla, books, webfiction, Dreamwidth, Discord, fediverse)
Watch (The Dragon Prince, MCU, youtube subs, ??)
Draw (Apothecaria, A Game to You, Alien Peacelords, A Dragonling's Family, Demon's Lure, fan art, sketching practice)
Write (Apothecaria, blog post, email, chat, social media, The Jewel-Strewn Night, something new)
Edit (A Game to You, Alien Peacelords, A Dragonling's Family, Fellwater)
Exercise (walk, pace, stretch, lift weights, do aerobics video)
Track (activities, food, exercise)