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February Update: 2026 Goal Progress Monthy Update

February 2026 Goals Monthly Update

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My Master Goal Lists: https://dabwrites.blogspot.com/p/2026-goals-projects.html

I'm trying out different formats but this is what I have now.

Project Status

ProjectStatus
Project #1: Finish book 2 in my main series-in-progressOn track/in progress
Project #2: Publish my novella experiment-write-to-market seriesCompleted
Project #3: Review romance conference materialOn Hold
Project #4: Review Jericho conference materialOn Hold
Project #5: Review & consolidate other writing information on Google drive target: 30 docsin progress/ behind Schedule
Project #6: Genre explorationOn Hold
Project #7 Watching Instructional videos:On Hold
Project #8 Complete LinkedIn Learning courseOn Track/In progress
Project #9 The cover design courseOn Hold

Details of those on track

Project #1: Finish book 2 in my main series-in-progress

Progress this month 

I have decided to make this my main focus for now rather than spread myself thin. So far I have completed 56% of this draft round. 

DetailWord Countpercentage
Original75,219100%
Revised41,92256%
balance33,29744%

 This is more or less a loose line edit draft so though I thought this was the final draft,  I'm probably going to do a few other passes. 

In this draft, I'm looking at how the story flows on a scene, paragraph and sentence level. I have deleted a few scenes, a work here and there. I'm also doing it in small word count batches so I don't get fatigued. 

What I mean is rather than do a whole chapter  at a time or even scene , I only do about 200 words at a time. Small batches means it's simpler to focus on rather than getting fatigued. 

My process in case any one is interested is.

  • skim the story 
  • listen via Text To Speech
  • Grammar check
  • repeat 

To Do Next Month - March
 
Basically just carry on.

Issues, risks, blockers: Probably time, as I need to commit more time to my job search and when I get a new role, I may have less time for this. 

Project 8 Complete LinkedIn Learning course 

Progress for this month 

I've enjoyed parts of it even though I'm primarily doing it for CPD/CPE units. I thought it would be boring and dry but not really. I guess my concern with doing these courses is I have a wider picture and not really sure I want to stay in my profession or that my work makes a difference. 

CPD-CPE Credit tracker 8 of 40 which is 20% complete. 

To Do Next Month: Carry on

issues, risks, blockers: None so far apart from motivation since it can be boring.

Project #5: Review & consolidate other writing information on Google drive

Progress for this month 

 I finally reviewed a selection of the files. I did this using years starting in 2014 working to 2017 and I discovered looking at a selection via the preview in google drive most belonged to old incomplete projects or works-in-progress. 

At the moment, I am hesitant to delete any of these files because these projects are on my pipeline list.

I also noticed I have 80 folders so I'm curious as to why.  Perhaps I should take the folder by folder  approach. 

File TypeNumber
Googledocs 1,230 just writing, backups and general stuff.1,230
Spreadsheet 106 - these are mostly for plotting or storing numbers stuff.106
Presentations - 26 some from workshops or just where I store pictures etc.26
Images - 332 images - mostly setting and stuff.332
PDFs - 445445
Videos - 39 mostly backup from courses39
Archive - zips file 59 - backups59
Audio files - 44
Drawings Google drive also classes Photoshop files as this 8989
Total 2,330

The new approach would be something like this. 

The first step would be to do a file audit 

Folder numberMain DriveFolder #1Folder #2
subfolders
Googledoc
spreadsheets
Presentation slides
Images
PDFs
videos
Audio files
drawings
Total files
Folder numberFolder #5Folder #5Folder #7
subfolders
Googledoc
spreadsheets
Presentation slides
Images
PDFs
videos
Audio files
drawings
Total files

Need to see how it goes.

To Do Next Month - file audit per folder

New issues, risks, blockers - boredom and time

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