The Paragon Path Towards An Epic Destiny

[Sólveig]

• Writing: 7 days, 17687 words
• Burpees: 1 day, 30 Burpees
• 1 day of reading

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• Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 7 days, 3988 words
• NaNoWriMo: 7 days, 13699 words

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First week down, and I'm off to nearly 40% completion. Still on the Road of Trials, but I'm getting there. My estimation is that, by 50%, I'll be at the Meeting with the Goddess, or perhaps near the beginning of Woman as Temptress. Still, I wrote 17K this week, and that was by doing pretty much 1.5K mostly daily, which was 40 to 60 minutes. I think I'm capable of pulling off a 10 to 15K story weekly.

I just wish I would've worked out more though. I'm really getting lazy... Way too lazy. I want to change that, so I'm punishing myself with 50 Burpees daily. I don't want to see a day with 0 Burpees, but I'll do 50 as my baseline. Yeah.

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Week 7 (46th week of the year) Goals:

JUST do NaNoWriMo.

Also a punishment: 50 Burpees daily, minimum.

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• 1 - 2: Fighter
• 3 - 4: Valkyrie
• 5 - 6: Knight.

D6 Roll: Nope.

Rating: 100/100
Training Plan for the Week: Athena's Playbook (again; try to catch up)

 

[Sólveig]

We were supposed to play D&D, but it didn't happen. I had everything ready for it, and we remained waiting on the last player... but he couldn't make it. Is not that he didn't wanted to, he was at a hospital due to work. Nothing wrong with him; he's a firefighter/paramedic, so he was probably either filling a bunch of paperwork or saving someone's life. We really missed him though, I wrote the session and he was core for it as well. So we ended up just chatting for the afternoon, no dice rolled.

i ended up catching up on my journaling, working out a little, but didn't do AP. I wanted to focus on writing, and this is just getting tiring, and tiring, and tiring... It's the same thing that happens as I approach 50%: I know where to get, because I have the milestones laid out, but I'm going in blind. I'm not convinced as to the way the story is going, and I was tempted of rebooting the scene like I did with one before it, but no, I decided to keep it because I know I can save it. I just know. And at least I'm closer to 50% than 20%.

November 9th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 5 - LVL III
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 60 Seconds Side Elbow Plank +EC
Count: 2019 - 2015 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
Before Breakfast Burpees

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 530 words in 30 minutes! (311/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 9 - 1889 in 60 minutes (19861/50000)

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Writing progress:
2419 words in 90 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
Treasure Island - 133/219
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

Closer to 50% now. Two long sessions of 40 minutes each. I still don't know what the hell am I doing, but I am at least more clear than other attempts. Context is everything, and as I follow my plans I now feel like one scene is just on the way. There's three words blasting on my ears: trust the process.

On the other hand I did some journaling. Soon it will be exactly 10 years since the moment I opened an old notebook and started journaling.

November 10th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 5 - LVL III
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 30 Climber Taps +EC
Count: 2020 - 2016 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
Monday +EC
Burpee Queen +EC
2 Full Burpees

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 510 words in 26 minutes! (312/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 10 - 2794 in 80 minutes (22655/50000)

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Writing progress:
3304 words in 106 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
Treasure Island - 133/219
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

Ok, I didn't do as much as I expected. Actually, I was on a low, and I knew why: got too much dopamine in the morning, and spent the day chasing that unconsciously. So yes, it was a low-energy day, and I knew I was the one to blame. Nevertheless I managed to write. I still don't know what I'm doing on NaNo, but I'm getting out of there. Actually, I'm pretty excited to move forward because the scene that follows is the scene I've been dying to write ever since I came up with it, and it's going to be a long one. I think that scene alone will take me to 30K, perhaps even more. That means the job isn't done because that scene alone is the last trial, and the Meeting with the Goddess in one.

November 11th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 6
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 30 Calf Raises +EC
Count: 2021 - 2017 +EC
WoD: 5-minute Arm Lift +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
Before Breakfast Burpees

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 565 words in 34 minutes! (313/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 11 - 1028 in 40 minutes (23683/50000)

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Writing progress:
1593 words in 74 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
Treasure Island - 133/219
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

I NEARLY FINISHED IT. It took me longer than I anticipated, plus the powercut lasted for far too long. I'm not using my phone to keep writing like I did last year though, so I'm stuck to the computer. But hey, I've reached it! I'm halfway through NaNo now, at 25K... and yet the story ain't over.

It was a rather chill day... although I had a nasty stomach pain all of the sudden. Literally, a stomach pain. My stomach felt like there was a knife coming through it, and I don't know why. Then it vanished all of the sudden because I sat to a fetal position, and everything was fine. I was back to normal.

Nasty digestive track, been screwing me over quite a lot since summer...

November 12th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 7
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 60 Seconds Supergirl Stretch +EC
Count: 2022 - 2018 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
Before Breakfast Burpees

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 583 words in 32 minutes! (314/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 12 - 1789 in 50 minutes (25472/50000)

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Writing progress:
2372 words in 82 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
Treasure Island - 175/219
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[graoumia]

 

[Sólveig]

It sucked.

It really did. I only added two pages to my NaNo, and I shouldn't feel bad about it... but the problem is that those two pages are stuff that I'll get rid of because it isn't what I want for the story. I mean it still adds up, but I hate it. I got expropiated from a fan, I couldn't write, and I finally noticed that more free times equals to less time to write, as paradoxical as it sounds. I don't even know if this is time blindness, or if this is just "squirrel!" energy, but having more free time is just making me write less.

But at least I got to work out. And finish one book, which is obviously Treasure Island. I'll be clearing that list (by the exception of the PHB, which it takes me a while because, again, D&D is a game in which is required to read at least three dissertations to have the rules more ingrained to your head so you don't have to skim them or always look them up mid-game). The Raymond Chandler that I have left only has The Pencil and Blackmailers Don't Shoot as the stories left. It's all good. I'm trying to take a while to read the last two stories from Burning Chrome (Dogfight and Burning Chrome) because Gibson tends to be slightly tiring.

November 13th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 7 | Day 8 - LVL III
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 50 Arm Scissors +EC
Count: 2023 - 2019 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
Before Breakfast Burpees

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 549 words in 29 minutes! (315/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 13 - 596 in 15 minutes (26068/50000)

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Writing progress:
1884 words in 68 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
Treasure Island - 219/219
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

I think I'm going to close this week on 30K... and I'm barely starting stage 7 out of 17 of NaNo. The scene I ended up writing was emotional, mainly because I don't want this project to have the ending that I want it to have, but it's the only ending that makes the most sense overall. I am not going to change the ending just because I want to, otherwise I'm harming the story, thus killing all the effort I've been putting on it. But if I'm getting emotional, well, it means that I'm doing something. Everything is moving forward good this time, and as I approach something that I have more clear on my head, I'm also sensing Woman as a Temptress bleed into the Meeting with the Goddess stage. One of the temptations showed up, which I thought was going to be showing on Refusal to Return, but the thing about the Monomyth is that it is never set in stone. The story is breathing, and I love that happening. I love how the outline is still applying, but since I'm not being way too rigid about it like last year, this time I'm letting it stretch. I'm glad I'm a plantser, because I would've gone quite obsessive about the story not going the way I want it to.

Actually, I love how it is evolving. The character who I thought was going to be just the Mentor on the Supernatural Aid, and fill in the roles of the Goddess on Meeting with the Goddess, and the Rescuer from the Rescue from Without ended up being a deutaragonist going through a Journey of their own. In essence, I'm writing two Hero's Journeys going in parallel through one, and I'm loving it. This means what I thought was going to be just an archetypical character is actually a fully fleshed out character on their own. While I don't want this to end (because I know what the ending will look like), I want to see the finished first draft, because I know, for sure, I'm sitting down to edit this right away.

November 14th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 9 - LVL III
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 50 Backfists +EC
Count: 2024 - 2020 +EC
WoD: One-minute Plank +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 527 words in 27 minutes! (316/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 14 - 2272 in 60 minutes (28340/50000)

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Writing progress:
2799 words in 87 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

Reverse Animedoro might be a joke, but the fact that I used it back in university to get through a long-term project without burnout might say that there's some serendipity to it. I used it again this time, working on NaNo for 20 minutes at a time instead of 40, and focused on really making my ICRPG session. As it turns out, my output increased. Yes, I did my session, but I also managed to write more in 40 minutes this time, to the point that I reached 2K in 60 minutes. I do 1.5K in 60 minutes normally. This means my speed is improving on one hand, but on the other hand I'm on a stage where things are starting to clear up in the sense on what should I do next.

I took a walk. Went to the nonprofit after, and stayed there until late. I didn't want to come home. Things aren't good, plus I have an upset gut again.

Also: November 15th. I am at 60% progress by going into 30K. While I'm still on stage 7 out of 17, meaning that the story isn't over just yet, I'm closer to the end of NaNo rather than the beginning, and it's only halfway through the month!

November 15th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 10 - LVL III
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 20 Scissors +EC
Count: 2025 - 2021 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
Before Breakfast Burpees +EC

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 538 words in 34 minutes! (317/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 15 - 2036 in 60 minutes (30376/50000)

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Writing progress:
2574 words in 94 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

• Writing: 7 days, 16945 words
• Burpees: 7 day, 370 Burpees
• 2 days of reading

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• Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 7 days, 3802 words
• NaNoWriMo: 7 days, 12404 words
• Others: 1 day, 739 words

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One thing only, one punishment only, and I did it all. The fact that I pushed a total of 16K, just as by previous week I pushed 17K is telling that I should just make a project at least 1 hour a day. Well, not at least 1 hour, but 10 minutes, but significant progress can be done in 1 hour. If I'm starting to push 2K on 1 hour I can do more than I think I would.

Entered Meeting with the Goddess, finally. Reached to 60% halfway through the month, and this story ain't over just yet, but I believe I will keep writing it until it's done because I seriously want to have this book finished, like 100% finished.

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Week 8 (47th week of the year) Goals:

JUST do NaNoWriMo.

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• 1 - 2: Fighter
• 3 - 4: Valkyrie
• 5 - 6: Knight.

D6 Roll: Nope.

Rating: 100/100
Training Plan for the Week: Athena's Playbook (again; try to catch up)

 

[Sólveig]

Well, now I was the one who cancelled at the last minute because, indeed, my gut was upset. I woke up in extreme pain, bloated like hell, and I wanted to scream. I spent the day sleeping, and even then I wasn't 100% yet. So it felt like preparing my game the day before was a complete waste of time.

It's not surprise because I've been eating very poorly. Actually, I've been doing the opposite of what the physician has told me to.

But at least I managed to keep writing. 2.4K in 60 minutes is still telling me that my speed has increased. These are Spanish numbers, not English ones. I'm loving this stage too. Everything is moving smoothly, and I like it.

November 16th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 30 Alt Arm / Leg Raises +EC
Count: 2026 - 2022 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 598 words in 29 minutes! (318/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 16 - 2465 in 60 minutes (32841/50000)

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Writing progress:
3063 words in 89 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Mamatigerj]

 

[Sólveig]

Strangely, like nothing, the thing went away on Monday. I was still in pain, but after taking a long rest, it vanished. I even had something very unhealthy, and woke up yesterday with nothing. Still, I went to TCM instead, and... yeah, patterns showed up. While I was getting my history written a date popped up in my head, the very same date that I told my therapist last time I saw him, and it was a date before all this bullsh*t even started.

So Monday sucked. i know that my issues right now are because my diet has been the same over and over and over throughout the week, no change whatsoever, but that's on the physical. It wasn't until yesterday, after I went to TCM that everything dropped. The family name tattoed on my gallbladder decided to act up because I didn't deal with something that happened that day in my head, so it decided to attack my body instead. When the acupuncturist mentioned the word redemption, I thought he meant my past, but later I realized it was a more recent past. Man, here I am just wondering what the hell would've happened to me if I married this girl? I think I would've had actual stones at the very best. Like I knew this was going to happen at some point in my life, or maybe not considering there's just two of my generation confirmed to have gallstone issues, but I didn't think it was going to happen this soon. My brother was 49 when he got his gallbladder removed, and that was this year. I'm barely 32.

According to Chinese medicine, the gallbladder is all about decisions, and stones on it is indecision. And you know since when I haven't been writing the way I should be writing? Since she was done with me, enough to block me everywhere. Overall, I've been completely lost. I lost my compass, I lost my torch, and I didn't even dare to deal with that emotionally, so that stuck on the physical. It required a lot of journaling yesterday, enough to nearly skip NaNo and the 365, but I got them... though the 365, I fell asleep while writing it. No exaggeration. There is a smudge of ink on the paper that was supposed to be a word. I fell asleep while writing that word.

Nevertheless, this was the first time in my life I've got acupuncture, and what should I say about it? It was awesome! It looks scary on the outside, but the needles... Ever been stung, or bitten, by an ant? Like that, but in half. It was, by far, the most relaxing experience I've had this year, and it is most definitely going into one of the highlights of my year as one of the coolest experiences of this year. I loved it, and I'm required to come back the next day to keep on with the treatment... which I think is working.

November 17th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 40 Balance Leg Swings +EC
Count: 2027 - 2023 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 576 words in 32 minutes! (319/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 17 - 1478 in 40 minutes (34319/50000)

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Writing progress:
2054 words in 72 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

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November 18th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 20 Plank Arm Raises +EC
Count: 2028 - 2024 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 450 words in 27 minutes! (320/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 18 - 1256 in 40 minutes (35575/50000)

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Writing progress:
1706 words in 67 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

There. 38K. I nearly wrote 3K in one sitting, but not only the Meeting with the Goddess is done, I pretty much skipped Woman as the Temptress because that stage sprinkled itself throughout the Road of Tryals. Still, I gave that stage some dedication because, to the surprise of my outline, it wasn't the main character who was going to go through the Temptation of leaving the quest. They already went through that. It was someone different, someone I didn't expect to go through a Journey on their own until I started writing the story.

Nothing makes sense. Everything is horrible. I don't care though. I'm closing in to Atonement with the Abyss, and I rather this story to be done so that I can make it make sense. At least I know that maybe I won't reach 85K, but this won't stick to 50K, for sure.

Two days in, and my mouth sores vanished quicker than usual. There were a couple of points that hurt while I had the needles on. I didn't do anything during the day; heat and distractions, but I wrote nearly 3K in less than two hours. I'm going somewhere.

TCM is working. I'm starting to feel not just a whole lot better, but also woke up with the desire to do things, and I cleared them up in my journal. I'm almost at 40K already. Maybe I'll reach to 50K on the 25th like I have been doing throughout the years, but maybe it'll be earlier this time. I love this book.

November 19th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 20 Sumo Squats +EC
Count: 2029 - 2025 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 563 words in 35 minutes! (321/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 19 - 2793 in 70 minutes (38368/50000)

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Writing progress:
3356 words in 105 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

On one hand I'm starting to get tired of NaNo. Not that I'm angry at it, but just tired of writing it. I rushed through the Atonement with the Abyss stage, and Apotheosis might be shorter than I thought it would. Apotheosis being shorter makes sense because The Ultimate Boon in this story is more important.

I got cake at qi gong, which was just beautiful. It was due to my birthday being earlier this month, so yay! My bowel movements are returning to normal, I wrote down a lot of things on my journal, and I'm also realizing that this NaNo in particular is healing me from the breakup, because this physical issue that I have is a reflection from that since I never dealt with it proper.

There was a powercut yesterday that lasted way too long, and I slept through the whole thing. Still, I came up with a few realizations about discarding wordcount goals and just giving more importance to writing for a fixed set amount of time instead. Not only I'm lowering the bar and being friendlier to myself by making the game to the point that just showing up is a victory, but I remembered some of the things I learned in university and there is a whole lot of science behind this. I don't recall the exact science, but it exists, and I know it exists because I used it in my practice as a teacher, and I used this working for a fixed set amount of time before as a student, and I made more progress than my peers.

Since I am pushing up to 2500 words hourly, I'm thinking about turning that into a routine of 7500 words daily. 3 hours, divided by 90 minutes twice a day, with perhaps up to 30 minutes of optional rest. And I say optional because there were times in which I put the 10-minute timer, and restarted it over and over and over, without taking rest whatsoever. So if I'm on such roll, why would I interrupt that?

I'm estimating that I'll finish NaNo, completely, within the first week of December. Maybe I'll finish the 50K somewhere next week. I'm almost at 90% already at this point.

November 20th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 30 W-extensions +EC
Count: 2030 - 2026 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 529 words in 55 minutes! (322/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 20 - 2964 in 80 minutes (41332/50000)

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Writing progress:
3493 words in 135 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

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November 21st, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 20 Crunch Kicks +EC
Count: 2031 - 2027 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 541 words in 29 minutes! (323/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 21 - 1329 in 40 minutes (42661/50000)

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Writing progress:
1870 words in 69 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

I'm so aware that I've been slacking so bad. My habits are all screwed up. Still, something cool: just reached 90% progress! I finished the Refusal to Return stage, and from this point on it's writing the ending. The next time I sit down to write, I'll be starting with The Magic Flight, and from then on it's just one straight line to Rescue from Without, the Crossing of the Return Threshold, Master of Two Worlds, and Freedom to Live. With it, I'll close the draft, take a breath, and finally can begin working on fixing it. Already made a few notes about it.

Man, it's been a long month, and it has been feeling like a very long journey, yet every step of it was awesome. I love how the draft is shaping up to be, and how the story is so different now that it's ending. The characters have changed quite a lot. Sure, some things feel out of place, but it's a matter of sanding things off. There was a point in which I felt like I was doing a very poor job writing it, but then I realized I just dumped the yeast in the water. I can't say the bread is awful when all I did is activate the yeast.

November 22nd, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 30 Knee-to-elbow +EC
Count: 2032 - 2028 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 536 words in 35 minutes! (324/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 22 - 2522 in 65 minutes (45183/50000)

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Writing progress:
3058 words in 100 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

• Writing: 7 days, 18600 words
• Burpees: 0 days, 0 Burpees
• 4 days of reading

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• Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 7 days, 3793 words
• NaNoWriMo: 7 days, 14807 words

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375817 words written this year so far. Last year I wrote 245646 words. My plan was to round it up to 250K, but not only I reached 250K, but also went 50% above my goal. That is nuts! The year isn't even over as of yet!

I'm very impressed of what I'm capable of doing once I let go of target numbers and focus only on time alone. Just make it through X minutes, and since my average is between 60 to 100 minutes, it allows me to produce 2500 to 3000 words daily. As long as I'm putting in the time, I'm fine. Better to have a fluctuating wordcount than stressing over numbers. Any positive number is greater than zero, and if writing a novel 10 minutes daily taught me anything is that every word piles up. My strength relies on beating the clock, not hitting arbitrary word counts. Nevertheless, I'm keeping the stars because they feel good.

You know, like in Guitar Hero. Sure, you might combo break, or might not do something good, nor not hit 100%, but the important part is, first of all, to have fun, and secondly, to get through the song without the meter dropping too low. Anything else is extra.

This also marked the week in which, holy hell, I wrote the most. 18600 words in a week! That's about 75 pages. If this output keeps going, I can produce one novel monthly. 75 pages weekly multiplied by 4 weeks is 300 pages. I can punch in the numbers.

Then, how come I don't publish?

Stay tuned, because I figured it out.

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Week 9 (48th week of the year) Goals:

FINISH NaNoWriMo Once and For All!

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• 1 - 2: Fighter
• 3 - 4: Valkyrie
• 5 - 6: Knight.

D6 Roll: Nope.

Rating: 100/100
Training Plan for the Week: I have no idea.

 

[Sólveig]

A couple of things: on Friday I thought about studying TCM. I know I'm on ground zero at this point, and I do want to pivot my life because teaching music is dead. There's no way to beat around it, that's gone. It was stillborn. An Eraserhead baby, if you will. Thing is I don't want to study TCM alone. TCM and psychology go very hand-to-hand together, and if I go into TCM since there is a group opening up (I'm being encouraged by both my therapist and my mom to go back to school), I would love to go back to school and study psychology as well. Really, I do.

There was no D&D, which was fine. Nonetheless, it was also a good opportunity to figure out the question I left off during the WAM: if I'm writing so much, then why am I not publishing? Simple: stage fright. Why stage fright? How come I got stage fright again at this point? What? Because it's my impostor syndrome manifesting itself as stage fright, and using very good arguments to keep me out of the stage.

I published 15 stories two years ago. 6 stories last year. You know how much I've published this year? 2, and those two add up to 1500 words, out of 375K written. I've published 0.3% of what I've written so far, and the percentage might get lower by the end of the year. That's insane! I should've published 40% or 50% of 375K, but no, I went and published 0.3%.

And how come I figured out it's impostor syndrome? Two things: first, the events of last year. Last year was the worst experience I've ever had; I've never hid myself so badly like last year. No kidding, it was a civil war, and even the fear of being hunted down is still haunting me now. Even though my work pivoted from just pornographic videos in written form to sexploitation pulps and made it significantly more interesting, deeper, and shocking in the sense of the difference from what it once was, I didn't publish because I was afraid of putting out too much; enough for the government to figure out that I'm shouting. Second, the rules of the game in the place where I publish. It's confusing. I don't mean content guidelines or anything like that, I mean the unwritten rules of the market game. What's trending, how things trend, the advice people constantly give (like keeping your name out in the newest works), whether ratings matter or not, and it all adds up so much pressure to the point that the two stories that I've published felt like they aren't worth it, and it's... Ugh. You know I'm a min-maxer, right? How do you think I feel attepting to min-max my game when there's always something hidden going on, or something that suddenly switches, like it is currently with plenty authors getting delays and lots of AI false flags? I've never had a story flagged as AI though, yet some established authors have.

Then there's Substack. I want to publish there, but the problem is I have no idea what to write over there other than reposting stories. I don't know, that feels too cheap. I want to do something more than that.

But yeah, realizing that it was impostor syndrome what has stopped me from publishing felt like a relief. There are so many self-imposed barriers too, and I'm starting to tear those apart.

Anyway, I nearly finished NaNoWriMo on the 24th! It was the lack of time that stopped me... Monday was HECTIC! I barely managed to put down a few words, but damn it was a very hectic day...

November 23rd, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 10 Balance Side Lunges +EC
Count: 2033 - 2029 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 567 words in 34 minutes! (325/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 23 - 2433 in 60 minutes (47616/50000)

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Writing progress:
3000 words in 94 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

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November 24th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 20 V-extensions +EC
Count: 2034 - 2030 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 617 words in 27 minutes! (326/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 24 - 1444 in 40 minutes (49060/50000)

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Writing progress:
2061 words in 67 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 37%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

IT GOT BUSY!

But I managed to go through it. I am not finished with NaNoWriMo, but I've reached the 50K goal, and I'm still on my way to finish the story. I'm at the start of the climax as of right now. I'm guessing I'll finish it below the 60K count, which I'm fine with, but I'll end this story this week. With that, I can finally start everything from scratch. Plan my things, start writing something else, getting my stories ready for the incoming events, everything! It feels overwhelming, but thankfully the dates make it easy enough so that I can work things around.

Last acupuncture session, right after therapy too. I rested, and spent the day busy outside of the computer. By the time I could write, it was almost midnight.

I barely managed to get to 50K in the last 40 minutes of the day! Literally the last stretch. NaNoWriMo is done as a challenge, but the novel still goes on. I'm also, hopefully, going to use the last notepad for the 365 challenge. It has 31 sheets, so I know I'll be missing 7 more. I'll have to figure out what to do with those extra 25 pages I'll have left over when I buy it. I'll probably use that in other things; not really a story.

I'm being encouraged to study TCM. I do want that, but I'd like to study both psychology and TCM since both are connected. I can start TCM sooner though; going back to school requires some money because I want to go to a private university for that. The career is shorter than in the public university, though both are good. There was a third option, but that had an extra year that is pointless, and I don't want to go through that year. I checked the programs though, and my heart tells me to go to the private one. After all, right now, I'm on a launchpad where I know I must start over because things have died.

November 25th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 40 Elbow Clicks +EC
Count: 2035 - 2031 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 468 words in 33 minutes! (327/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 25 - 1632 in 40 minutes (50692/50000)

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Writing progress:
2100 words in 73 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

 

[Fremen]

Congrats

 

[Sólveig]

Thanks @Fremen

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Today I felt abandoned, and I figured out why. That made me go back to an old work I was supposed to publish this year, but never did. I finally ended up starting to put notes on it and make an outline. Estimate is 45K, so it'll be another NaNo that I'll start once I finish drafting this one. I figured out I couldn't write it because I needed an outline to go by, and the nature of its story requires it to have a mosaic storytelling to it as well. I've done that before, but this time it'll be different. I already put the cast, and placed on them leitmotifs, so that was new.

On the other hand I've read 13 books (not counting re-read books) this year so far. I've also readied myself to repeat the 365 next year, but this time I'll do it with the purpose of learning how to write poetry. Same subject, same rules, but instead of buying a notepad monthly, I got two notebooks. Since it's poetry, I already set myself a limit of 2 stanzas, each of 2 verses. In Spanish because I want to learn what proper poetry looks like in my own language before studying other languages.

As for NaNo, I reached Master of Two Worlds! Just finished writing the climax last night, so it's all the ending from here now on. I'm actually glad that it's finally getting over because that means I get to read it and edit it. I don't see it as an end, really. Not this time, because I know I want to edit this, and I feel like I will start editing this once I let it breathe after I write "The End."

November 26th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 30 Prone Reverse Fly +EC
Count: 2036 - 2032 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 598 words in 37 minutes! (328/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 26 - 2321 in 55 minutes (53013/50000)

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Writing progress:
2919 words in 92 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

VICTORY!

27 seven days. 57202 words. 1545 minutes spent, which translates to 1 day, 1 hour, and 45 minutes. The average session was 57,22 minutes long, and the average daily wordcount was 2118,59 words.

And after one rush of 110 minutes and 4189 words produced in that time, I gave one final sprint, wrote the two last words to close the manuscript, put on that song and cried, and cried, and cried...

I did not want the project to end like this. I didn't. This wasn't how it was supposed to end, because this also wasn't supposed how my life was supposed to end. Yet I emerged alive, victorious, and with one heck of a story that it's so meaningful to me, because I just put an entire chapter of my life; six whole years into one single night. That's why I keep insisting it wasn't supposed to end the way it ended: because that part of my life ended in the way it wasn't supposed to end. The plan was always to put that ending on that project, and even if I'm still emotional about it, I'm so glad to finish the whole manuscript. I finally told myself the entire story, and I couldn't believe the last line I put in my journal for the project was begging for my ex to not break up with me.

I never dealt with that fully, and it got me a gallbladder issue to deal with it. I needed this project far more than I thought. I did it. I finished NaNo once again, and this marks the second time I do so with a story that's so meaningful to me it is still crawling on my head, and I made the first editing note in my BuJo, because I also know that I created two heroes in that story that will come recurrent, and this novel is their origin story.

I'd like to stay away of it for now. there are no more words to add to it. I'd like to stay away, at least until the month ends. For now, I want to bathe in the glory of finishing before the month ended, let myself feel the open wounds, and this time write something that is less therapeutic. This baby has to be published; it has to... I don't even care how much it sells, or if it even sells, but if it reaches out there to someone else, whoever that might be, and they feel the same, then that work did its job.

There are no more books to write this year. There is nothing more to write this year. I am no longer pretending. I am a writer.

November 27th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Athena's Playbook: Day 11
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 30 Squats +EC
Count: 2037 - 2033 +EC
Turkey Run 2025: 50 Basic Burpees - 100 Turkeys Caught
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 520 words in 30 minutes! (329/365)
NaNoWriMo 2K25: Day 27 - 4189 in 110 minutes (57202/50000) - First Draft Completed! NaNoWriMo Ended!

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Writing progress:
4709 words in 140 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

Day off. I decided to have it. To not write anything whatsoever, except the 365.

I'll write tomorrow. I'm also going to take the opportunity to start planning everything.

November 28th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Nope
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 20 Lunge Punches +EC
Count: 2038 - 2034 +EC
Turkey Run 2025: 50 Basic Burpees - 100 Turkeys Caught
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 552 words in 40 minutes! (330/365)

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Writing progress:
552 words in 40 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Congratulations on finishing your NaNo project @Sólveig !

 

[Sólveig]

@Laura Rainbow Dragon Thanks!

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Ok, there's just too much in my head right now to even consider what to do. At least I did another backup of my writings. If my output ended dropping is because I have nothing to focus on, or at least nothing assigned to focus upon.

On the other hand I realized I had a few one-liners and aphorisms, so I decided to start a commonplace book to reflect on them just a little, and start collecting them. I have come to the realization that I'm less like Raymond Chandler and more like Philip K. Dick due to the content of my writings and the huge philosophical charge in them. Chandler's melodramatic style is there; I've had that since my cyberpunk days, but it's the philosophical charge that's really standing out more to me. The last erotica author who did something that at least had a drip of that was Henry Miller as far as I remember.

November 29th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Nope
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 5+ Plank Walk-outs +EC
Count: 2039 - 2035 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 525 words in 31 minutes! (331/365)

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Writing progress:
525 words in 31 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

 

[Sólveig]

• Writing: 7 days, 15866 words
• Burpees: 2 days, 100 Burpees
• 2 days of reading

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• Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 7 days, 3847 words
• NaNoWriMo: 5 days, 12019 words

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I had to do an entire brain dump of all things that I have stuck on my head, and once I filled an entire page of the things I want to do on my endless to-do list, I picked out a few to work on the week. The hardest part was to determine which ones can be done immediately, which ones are really on the way, and which ones are just habitual. I'm not aiming for 100% completion, but I am aiming of clearing the table of a few things, including my reading list, and more administrative matters. It sounds like I have a big list for this week, but as you can see, there are no wordcount goals, and no pressure. All I need is just show up and spend the time. Just a little bit of time, that's it. The thing about writing a poem also is to get myself into it without stage fright, because my perfectionist tendencies are giving me this stage fright, and what I aim is to do something bad, but also remove any rules. Just be a kid again, experiment, and have fun with it.

I'm going slow, and I planned easier workouts for this week. Again, I've been slacking a lot, so it's better to ease myself back up into it. Since I don't like that there's Cardio instead of Strength, I decided to keep Strength. I also replaced HIIT with dancing.

With NaNoWriMo finished, I want to start dedicating myself to short stories. The triptych that I have is actually three stories that held together will pull out an episodic novel, but my goal is to write it as three different stories, and my publishing for that will be sometime next year.

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Week 10 (49th week of the year) Goals:

• Things that would make the week easier if accomplished:
  • Print the Year Compass.
  • Draw between 3 to 6 calendars (EC: do all 12).
  • Research and clear doubts about Substack.
• More habitual things:
  • Finish reading The Pencil and the secret book.
  • Write a poem: 2 stanzas, 2 verses.
  • Assign and write one story (120 to 150 minutes daily).
  • Outline part I of my triptych (30 to 60 minutes daily).
  • Do a single drawing (30 minutes daily).
  • Work out following Fighter (replacing HIIT with dance).
  • Start Fit December.

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• 1 - 2: Fighter
• 3 - 4: Valkyrie
• 5 - 6: Knight.

D6 Roll: Chosen instead of rolling.

Rating: 100/100
Training Plan for the Week: Fighter + Fit December

 

[Sólveig]

Dear Santa:

It's been a long year, and I did my best I could. It's no secret that I've been lacking off on the workouts, but that's mainly due to a health scare that I got during the summer, which might end up with me developing gallbladder stones down the line. Right now I'm seeing how I can redeem myself on bringing back my Burpees, so I'm sticking to a low count if I do Burpees, and if the count is higher, I'd do Basic Burpees instead. I'm not shy to them, but I'm not doing the bulk that I used to do earlier this year.

No matter, I've been shifting my focus out of it, seeking to dance more, and to pick up combat moves again, so I'm pretty much returning to the basics. My kicks are low as of now, and my stamina has dropped. I don't have any equipment, so it's all on my own. If you help me to get back to my feet, I'd be grateful

I'm hopeful for a new year, Santa. This was, again, a very long one, but I'm glad things are shaping up to be square one.

Sólveig.

 

[Sólveig]

Not exactly a day off, but a day with a lot of planning. The reason I ended up with a WAM so large is because I did a brain dump of all the things that I want to do, and it was large. I had to pick and choose which ones I could do this week, and also see which ones, if done, will make the rest of the week (and the rest of the month) easier. After some deliberating I noticed that a few things, like writing one poem weekly, due to the low bar I put myself to, I might be earning myself a free victory in one day. Two stanzas, four verses, that can be done in twenty minutes if I'm good at it. That could mean I'd trigger myself into writing another one, and another one, and another one, and by the time I less expect it, I stop producing sh*t poems and start coming up with good ones. Which, honestly, that's how writing and drawing works. You need to manufacture a lot of sh*t before getting to the diamonds. Quantity leads to quality.

But I'm not beating myself up for producing X amount of things. I prefer to just show up. Less pressure that way. Just checking in is enough. If I did it, if I didn't do it, or if I just did it but didn't finish it, it's alright. What matters is to show up.

Whatever. There was no D&D, so the whole day was a lot of preparation for the week, plus reading. Reading poems, more precisely. Reading to get into the flow on it. Reading without paying attention to metric because I need to get into the mindspace first before I start adding all that theory that entails. I'm learning, and I'm setting the bar as low as I can, just so that I can produce instead of staying in tutorial hell doing absolutely nothing. There is stage fright; fear of breaking things up. However, honestly? The whole point of learning is to break things up in the first place.

Because I put a low bar for everything, I pretty much dunked my tasks today. 100% of everything. What a way to end the month of NaNoWriMo.

November 30th, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 1

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Programs:
Fit December: Day 1
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 40 Knee Strikes +EC
Count: 2040 - 2036 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 556 words in 30 minutes! (332/365)

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Writing progress:
556 words in 30 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

 

[JesseW]

I'm loving the descriptions of the writing efforts you are making, particularly the Write the Same Thing Every Day for a Year. Keep on keeping on!!

 

[Sólveig]

Well, damn! I forgot to post. Good things that two things that were on the way are now accomplished, with one being left to do. I also wrote a poem on Monday? I was not expecting to do it in two minutes, really. I really wanted to keep going, or do more, but I just did that one.

Then yesterday I edited a story for one of the events next year, plus I wrote #334 and thought that it would be much better as a poem... Actually, both would be better as poems instead of shorts... I don't know what's going on with my brain with this, but that's happening.

I haven't done much. Too many things in my head currently. A wall of awful is stopping me. Still, I've added a few more lines to my commonplace book today.

December 1st, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 2

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Programs:
Fit December: Day 2
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 50 Half Jacks +EC
Count: 2041 - 2037 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
Skylark - LVL III +Rest between levels
Monday +EC
2 Full Burpees
Glutes, Quads, Hamstrings & Calves
Hamstring Stretch #4 for 30 seconds
30 Seconds Side Splits
30 Seconds Elbow Plank

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 539 words in 31 minutes! (333/365)

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Writing progress:
662 words in 36 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

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December 2nd, 2025
Dance Days: 1
Kickboxing Days: 2

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Programs:
Fit December: Day 3
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 10 Leg Raises +EC
Count: 2042 - 2038 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 533 words in 36 minutes! (334/365)

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Writing progress:
533 words in 36 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

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December 3rd, 2025
Dance Days: 2
Kickboxing Days: 2

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Programs:
Fit December: Day 4
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 50 Punches +EC
Count: 2043 - 2039 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
10 Minutes Shuffle Dance
Glutes, Quads, Hamstrings & Calves
Hamstring Stretch
30 Seconds Side Splits
30 Seconds Elbow Plank

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 569 words in 34 minutes! (335/365)

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Writing progress:
569 words in 34 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories:

 

[Mamatigerj]

Very belated congrats on your NaNoWriMo success!

 

[Sólveig]

Politically charged day. People can't stop talking about the marines it seems. I keep saying that it's a nothingburger being grilled. Two old farts barking like the old dogs that they are, being all bark and no bite, while those soldiers are either homesick, or taking the chance to tour the beaches and do nothing. In the meantime, the people unhooked from the Internet are living their lives as normal, like nothing's happening. They know what's going on, and I am part of this joke too, we're all joking about meeting a cute gringo or a cute gringa and marrying them. Everybody else is just way too paranoid about nothing.

My expectations are the lowest: the marines will stay there until 2029. Trump will get out of office, the new president will retire those marines from the coast, and all that was is just a total waste of time; old farts being all bark and no bite. I have no control about it, so what's a girl have to do? Simple: to carry on with her f*cking life. They called me a bird of ill omen, but is it ill omen to forsee that all that's happening is just two old farts barking at each other? To be precise, this is exactly what the status quo is like:

So yeah, I'll have my plate ready, because everyone is grilling nothingburgers this area. The only thing that concerns me is my Burpee count, and my word count. And I say both because areobic exercise is what I need against the gallbladder sludge.

I added another food I can't eat as long as I'm having gallbladder issues, and that is chicken. Unfortunate, considering how much I love chicken, but it strains my gallbladder, just like high fiber foods.

Last qi gong for the year. We'll meet again next year. Also, last full moon of the year, and cold moon as well. It was a beautiful sight to behold at night.

December 4th, 2025
Dance Days: 2
Kickboxing Days: 2

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Programs:
Fit December: Day 5
Bucket List:
Total Body Strength
Shadebound
High Gear
Extreme HIIT
Workouts:
Daily Dare: 20 Heel Get-ups +EC
Count: 2044 - 2040 +EC
The Right Side + 10 Decline Push-ups
20-Seconds Legs
Daily Walk
Beginner Dumbbells - LVL III +EC
Glutes, Quads, Hamstrings & Calves
Hamstring Stretch
30 Seconds Side Splits
:xv: 30 Seconds Elbow Plank

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Challenges:
Writing the Same Thing Every Day for a Year: 503 words in 32 minutes! (336/365)
50 Push-ups a Day: Day 4 +EC (I noticed I forgot to add this. I rebooted the challenge and did Day 1 +EC, Day 2 +EC, and Day 3 +EC on December 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively)

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Writing progress:
503 words in 32 minutes!
1500 Get!
Writing Tiers:
500 Words
1000 Words
1500 Words

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Reading progress:
Burning Chrome - 74%
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Player's Handbook - 38%
The Illiad - 16%
The Pencil - Story 2: The Pencil (2/3) - 49%

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Other Victories: