My Destination of Goals

Welcome to my Journey of 2020.

The goal of this project is to show myself that I can complete the goals that are made by me and for me. This is a group effort in that I'm apart of "Destination: Goal Zone"  and I will welcome their support and guidance.
This field manual will house everything I've done for the year within drop notes for each month.
Objectives for 2020
1. Write 2K words each week. ▼

To write 2 thousand words each week. This includes devotions that will be updated in "The Music of My Life"  and linked here.

2. Read a book a month ▼

This list will probably be a few more than a book a month but I know that reading 12 books is something I can accomplish without pushing it.
The Velvet Promise by Jude Deveraux Jan 6 to Jan 15
The Mister by E.L. James Jan 20 to Feb 23
Mr. Pirate A romance by A.B. Shiffrin Not Complete, was not engaging enough.
Velvet Angel by Jude Deveraux Feb 24 to Mar 1
The More I See You by Lynn Kurland This is for research purposesMar 16 to
Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss Mar 25 to April 21
Black Lyon by Jude Deveraux April 28 to May 1
And Then She Fell by Stephanie Laurens May 3 to June 18
50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James July 1 to Aug 9
The Power of the Imagination by Andrew Wommack July 6 to July 17
True Stories of the Miracles of Azusa Street and Beyond by Tommy Welchel July 6 to July 27
Flowing in the Supernatural by Greg Mohr Aug 1 to Sept 6
Extravagant Worship by Darlene Zschech Aug 8 to not complete
50 Shades Darker by E.L. James Aug 9 to Aug 28
The Necessity of an enemy by Ron Carpenter Jr. Oct 6 to Oct 31
Highland Velvet by Jude Deveraux Oct 15 to Oct 21
Insights into Faith by Andrew Wommack Dec 21 to

3. Personal Goals ▼

1. I work in the power of the Holy Spirit to know what to do for others and in my own life.
2. I write my stories every day.
3. I accomplish all I set out as a goal.
4. I know who I am in Christ.
5. I know what it means to be a child of God.
6. I will create lessons for new HSP classes.
7. I exercise and stay in shape to keep my body from becoming lazy.
8. Complete the classes and challenges I have set before me.

NOTE: While everything in this specific item will be rated G. I want to warn the reader if they so choose to take a look at the "Class Stories" you will need to be over the age of 18 as that book is rated for adults.

January ▼

Devotions
"Devotional Writings Week Jan 6 - 10, 2020"  864
"Devotions for Jan 12 to 18th"  1029
"Devotional writing week Jan 19-25"  1235
"Devotional Writings Week Jan 27 - 31"  938
I also attended a couple of classes for HSP while I'm linking the entries, there may be a chance with the settings of that particular book, it may not be able to be seen by those in charge of this group. If I need to change the settings on the HSP book they need to let me know.

Class Stories
"Romantica A1 2020"  1086
"Romantica A2 2020"  1275
"Basics A1 2020"  1021
"Basics A2 2020"  534

Misc Writing
Review of "Basics of Erotic Writing 01/06/2020" 1,444 w/o WML
Review of "Basics of Erotic Writing 01/06/2020" 2,790 w/o WML

Total:
1/6 - 11 WC 864
1/12 - 18 WC 7370
1/19 - 25 WC 3044
1/26 - 31 WC 938
Month Total WC 12,216

Book(s) Completed:
Velvet Promise by Jude Deveraux

February ▼

Devotions
"Devotions Feb 2 -8"  1380
"Devotions Feb 9-15"  904
"Devotions Feb 16 - 22"  1057
"Devotions Feb 23 - 29"  817

Class stories
"Basics A3 2020"  912
"Basics A4 2020"  1174
"Basics A5 2020"  971
"Romantica A3 2020"  675
"Romantica A4 2020"  525
"Romantica A5 2020"  1358
"Romantica A6 2020"  26

Total Writing
2/2 - 2/8 2976
2/9 - 2/15 4932
2/16 - 2/22 1057
2/23 - 2/29 843
Month Total WC 9808

Book
The Mister by E.L James
Mr. Pirate A Romance by A.B. Shiffrin
(I did not complete this book, it was not engaging enough)

March ▼

Devotions
"Devotional Writings Week March 1-7th"  818
"Devotional Writing March 8 - 14th"  832
"Devotions March 15 - 21"  791
"Devotions March 22 - 31"  1517 With NOTE. This week is longer because I wanted to finish the month within the post.

Misc Writing
"Caught up for now"  569
"Kady's Phone Call"  785
"Closure on the Job"  1130

Class Stories
"Erotic Language A1 2020"  450
"Erotic Language Discussion"  58

Total Writing
3/1 - 3/7 2733
3/8 - 3/14 832
3/15 - 3/21 1360
3/22 - 3/31 2025
Month Total WC 6950

Books
Velvet Angel by Jude Deveraux
The More I See You by Lynn Kurland I'm studying this book but am enjoying reading it also.
Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss this book I'm just enjoying. It's an interesting twist. Very erotic and emotion-filled.

April ▼

Devotions
"Devotions April 1 - 11"  1813
"Devotional writings April 12-18"  938
"Devotions April 19-25"  870
"Devotions April 26-30"  808

Class Stories
"Building Emotion A1 2020"  1213
"Building Emotion A2 2020"  1643

Misc Writing
NOTE: The first number for the word count is what I typed out for the review Some of these numbers may be an estimate. The second number is the actual word count of the review without writing ML.
Review of "Date Night" 3,717 / 4,717
Invalid Review 1,060 / 1,100
Review of "Milly and Marcus Part one of six." 3,755 / 4,255
"Invalid Item"  227
"Invalid Item"  This word count on these two ITEMS will not really change although I will be making changes to the items throughout the year. Once you see the way it's set up, I hope you'll understand what I mean. These two items will only be counted this one time because I created it in April.
Review of "The Stars and The Moon" 3410 / 3580
Review of "Lesson One " 561 / 585
Invalid Review 408
Review of "A Memorable First Date" 1805 / 1857
Week Break~~~~~~~~~~~
Invalid Review 2122 / 2172
Invalid Review 909 / 946
Review of "Erotic Language " 670
Review of " Marcus and Milly. Chapter two" 2510 / 2626
Invalid Review 2522 / 2636
Review of "I Love You" 1138
Review of "Bring Me Your Wandering Writing" This review shouldn't count because I made a mistake on it.
Review of "Bring Me Your Wandering Writing" 728
Review of "Morning Encounter " 1787 / 1852
Review of "Bring Me Your Wandering Writing" 759+
Week Break~~~~~~~~~~~
Review of "Lesson 3." 194
Invalid Review 1912
Week Break~~~~~~~~~~~
Review of "Bring Me Your Wandering Writing" 1189 / 1207
Review of "Marcus and Milly. Chapter three" 1176
Invalid Review 2432 / 2435
Review of "Her Mindset" 1051
"Eternal Escape"  1408 This is the first half of the story.
Review of "Conflict's Brewing" 859

Total Writing
4/1 - 4/11 17,969 Here when I was filling this out for this week I wondered where my word count would be. What in the world made me think I wouldn't make it this week?
4/12 - 4/18 14,083
4/19 - 4/25 4,619
4/26 - 4/30 8,923
Month Total WC 45,594

Book: Shanna finished 4/20 The twists from this book have given me a few ideas for what I'm currently working on. Now I get some time to process what I have going on. I may not begin reading another until May. I'll update if I change my mind. 4/28 I began Black Lyon by Jude Deveraux I have a feeling if I were to sit and read it, I'd finish it within a couple of days.

May ▼

Devotions
"Devotions May 1 - 9"  1216
"Devotions May 10 - 16"  790
"Devotions May 17 - 23"  1054
"Devotions May 24 - 31"  782

Short Stories
"Fading into the family"  692
"Eternal Escape"  1201 I added to this story. This word count is the addition. Check April.
Week Break~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Oceans Deep"  680
"The Chains of Addiction"  550
"Imprisoned in Freedom"  1037
Week Break~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Voices In My Head"  2147

Misc Writing
"30DBC May 1 Good Things"  276
"30-DBC May 2 Fictional Character"  173
"30-DBC May 3 Relaxing"  747
"30-DBC May 4 Culinary Debaucles"  269
I skipped May 5th because I didn't like the prompt.
"30-DBC May 6th Priceless"  161
"30-DBC May 7 Opening a Can of Worms"  719
"30-DBC May 8 The Inveitable Change"  578
"30-DBC May 9 Memories"  180
Review of "Milly and Marcus chapter five" 2230 / 2317
Review of "Bring Me Your Wandering Writing" 2198 / 2348
Week Break~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I created a new folder for Eternal Escape. I'm not counting the folder and "My Eternal Escape"  because they are the same story just split up. I will count anything else I place within that folder though.
Review of "Lesson 5 " 1249
Review of "Taking the Leap" 1634 / 1647
Review of "The Getaway" 1616
Review of "Bring Me Your Wandering Writing" 1672 / 1738
Review of "Let's Get Physical" 1187
Review of "Tommy the Driver" 964
"30-DBC May 10 Mother's Day"  324
"30-DBC May 11 A thousand words"  609
"30-DBC May 12 Let's Eat!"  261
"30-DBC May 13 Eternal Escape Ideas"  284
"30-DBC May 14 Letters, Letters and more Letters"  187
"30-DBC May 15 Selfless Rewards"  423
"30-DBC May 16 The Supernatural Realm"  140
Week Break~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"30-DBC May 17 Bloggers Visit"  340
"30-DBC May 18 Dishes and Laundry"  273
"30-DBC May 19 A Year to live"  1081
"30-DBC May 20 Body Swap"  163
"30-DBC May 21 No Electronics"  203
"30-DBC May 22 Music, Music and More Music"  573
"30-DBC May 23 You're Weird"  137
Week Break~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"30-DBC May 24 Embarrassing"  234
"30-DBC May 25 Skills"  316
"30-DBC May 26 Celebrate Good Times Come on!"  74
"30-DBC May 27 - Music of My Life"  118
"30-DBC May 28 Empty Glass"  468
I skipped May 29th because it was a busy day with work and Tony. I just forgot.
"30-DBC May 30 Last Day!!!"  425

Total Writing
5/1 - 5/9 11,320
5/10 - 5/16 11,340
5/17 - 5/23 5,971
5/24 - 5/31 2,417

Month Total WC 31,048

Books And Then She Fell by Stephanie Laurens. Began May 3rd. This an author I've not read yet.
I have NOT finished this book. I am still reading it but have not completed it. I just stopped reading it for a week.

June ▼

Devotions
"Devotions June 1 - 6"  871
"Devotions June 7 - 13"  906
"Devotions June 14 - 20"  927
"Devotions June 21 - 30"  957

Class Stories
"Excite A1 2020"  1349
"See it Sultry, Write it Sultry A1 2020"  578
"See it Sultry, Write it Sultry A2 2020"  1171

Misc Writing
"They Say...I Say..."  873

Total Writing
6/1 - 6/6 871
6/7 - 6/13 906
6/14 - 6/20 4998
6/21 - 6/30 957

Month Total WC 7732

Books: I am still reading "And Then She Fell" by Stephanie Laurens. I think I"m going to begin "50 Shades of Grey" by E. L. James. She's currently writing "Freed" and I want to have the first 5 books read by the time she's finished the 6th. Although there's no guarantee she will be finished and published within the year. I can only hope.

NOTE: It's been approximately 6 months since beginning this endeavor to accomplish some goals that I want to finish. An update on my personal goals.
Personal Goals Revisited ▼

1. I work in the power of the Holy Spirit to know what to do for others and in my own life.
This relationship is coming along slowly. I'm still getting out of my introverted shell and trying to figure out how to share what I know. There are times when the Holy Spirit gives me ideas in the everyday things that make our lives easier.
2. I write my stories every day.
This goal is coming along slowly also because I am working during the morning instead of writing. I'm taking July off from work to spend time with my kids so I am hoping to get more writing done.
3. I accomplish all I set out as a goal.
All I can say for this one is some goals I am making easily and others are a bit more complicated. But I'm working through all the goals I've set out so far.
4. I know who I am in Christ.
I'm learning more and more as the Holy Spirit reveals it to me. I've not given up, yet I can't see how deep my roots are either.
5. I know what it means to be a child of God.
This goal has been my favorite to walk out over the last couple of years. Praying and asking God what it looks like to be his child on earth. I believe he's answering my prayers every day.
6. I will create lessons for new HSP classes.
I have not touched the classes as of right now. I still want to research and rewrite one but I have not made time to complete this goal.
7. I exercise and stay in shape to keep my body from becoming lazy.
I move around and walk around every day. It's not the exercise I want to have. I want to stay active because that's who I am.
8. Complete the classes and challenges I have set before me.
This goal is going to take me at least the rest of the year to complete. Probably longer as I continue to get better at writing and improve what I know.

July ▼

Devotions
"Devotions July 1 - 4"  1034
"Devotions July 5 - 11"  926
"Devotions July 12 - 18"  754
"Devotions July 19 - 25"  822
"Devotions July 26 - 31"  1054

Class Stories
"Excite A1 2020"  1348
"See It Sultry, Write It Sultry A3 2020"  531
Week Break ~~~~~~~~~
"Excite A2 2020"  475
Week Break ~~~~~~~~~
"Excite A3 2020"  1546
Week Break ~~~~~~~~~

Misc Writing

Total Writing
7/1 - 7/4 2913
7/5 - 7/11 1401
7/12 - 7/18 2300
7/19 - 7/25 822 This was the week Tony (Hubby) came home for his vacation and we had to gather the last of the yard sale items.
7/26 - 7/31 1054
Month Total WC 8490

Books: I began reading 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James on 7/1 I have yet to finish it as of 7/27. There is other news. I have read The Power of the Imagination by Andrew Wommack, it was an engaging easy read that I finished. It gives me hope as to what I can have through what I can see in my imagination. I have also read True Stories of the Miracles of Azusa Street and Beyond by Tommy Welchel. This one I will probably read again. This book gives me some insight into the Azusa Street Revival of 1904. It shows me what's possible for the next revival. Updated above.
NOTE: This month has been busy at home off WDC. I've had the month to get my house cleaned out and my storage unit cleaned out. We had a yard sale with the items that we didn't throw away. The yard sale was the goal. This cleanout is the reason why I have not completely kept up with this manual this month. Something else that I've done is change the entries and items (my assignment stories) in Excite when you write and See it Sultry. I don't know what I've changed. I think the word counts have changed from June when I made changes this month. I'm not going to worry about keeping up with all those changes simply because I don't know if there's a way to figure out what I changed. I think one item I wrote, I counted the words in June but ended up deleting the whole story and starting over for the class. I have a few reviews to get done for HSP along with writing the stories for the assignments. I'm hoping that I can concentrate on these this week and get them done. The last few days of this month I've had some really emotional days where I think God has been healing my heart and pulling me out of my alone-ness. I've learned through the years that he's never left me nor forsaken me but the physical alone-ness has ripped at my heart. The thoughts and feelings that I have no physical friends around me. No one to talk to and no one who includes me. That has changed in these last few days and it's been a nice freeing time of fellowship with new church members. I also began a group on Facebook Sword of Encouragement come and find it if you want and read some of the same devotions that are in "The Music of My Life" . These posted on Facebook are edited though and not in the same order. I've grown in my spiritual life since writing these and changes need to be made in order for me to understand where I am supposed to go with writing direction.

August ▼

Devotions
"Devotions Aug 1 - 8"  946
"Devotions Aug 9 - 15"  1004
"Devotions Aug 16 - 22"  1227
"Devotions Aug 23 - 31"  888

Misc Writing
"Gracefully Hidden"  710

Total Writing
8/1 - 8/8 946
8/9 - 8/15 1004
8/16 - 8/22 1227
8/23 - 8/31 1598
Month Total WC 4775

Books: As of 8/9 I have finished 50 Shades of Grey and started Extravagant Worship by Darlene Zschech. I have also decided to begin 50 Shades Darker by E. L. James. Still reading Flowing in the Supernatural The list is updated above. You know what would be nice...to finish all three by the end of the month.

September ▼

Devotions
"Devotions Sept 1 - 5"  737
"Devotions Sept 6 - 12"  563
"Devotions September 13-18"  919
"Devotions Sept 20-26"  960
"Devotions Sept 27-30"  630
Class Stories

Misc Writing

Total Writing
9/1 - 9/5 737
9/6 - 9/12 563
9/13 - 9/19 919
9/20 - 9/26 960
9/27 - 9/30 630
Month Total WC 3,809
Books: Still reading Flowing in the Supernatural by Greg Mohr and Extravagant Worship by Darlene Zschech. I think I'm fixing to begin reading something else that will help me get the reading out of the way. I'm finding that Flowing in the Supernatural is mentally not what I need. Extravagant Worship is not something I'm interested in reading right now either. The only time now that I really read is when I go to bed and these two books while they help me sleep I just don't get through but a paragraph or two before I'm falling asleep. If I want to really get anything from the book, I need to read more of it when I'm awake and can understand what I'm reading. If I were to choose another book to read, it would probably be a romance. 50 Shades Freed by E.L. James is too long for the middle of the month. Let me look around my library and see what I can find.

October ▼

Devotions
"Devotions Oct 1 - 10"  1172
"Devotions Oct 11 - 17"  788
"Devotions October 18-24"  629
"Devotions October 25-31"  616

Class Stories
Misc Writing
Total Writing 3,205
Month Total WC 3,205
Books: I started reading The Necessity of an enemy by Ron Carpenter Jr. Oct 6 to Oct 31

November ▼

Devotions
"Devotions November 1 - 7"  830
"Devotions November 8-14"  903
"Devotions November 15-21"  795
"Devotions November 22-28"  1001
"Devotions November 29 - December 5"  884

Class Stories
Misc Writing
Total Writing 4413
Month Total WC 4,413
Books

December ▼

Devotions
"Devotions December 6 - 12"  879
"Devotions December 13-19"  733
"Devotions December 20-26"  837
"Devotions December 27-31"  847

Class Stories
Misc Writing
Total Writing 3269
Month Total WC 3,269
Books: I finished reading for the year in October. I made at least one goal. I began reading Insights in Faith by Andrew Wommack on December 21st. I don't know if I'll finish it. Probably will but will keep track if I do.
Year end WC 141,309 I don't know that I have ever written that many words in my life, let alone within a year. that's an accomplishment even if it didn't hit the mark for 2k words written a week or even 1K words written a week.

3. Personal Goals Revisited ▼

1. I work in the power of the Holy Spirit to know what to do for others and in my own life.
My prayer life has become more active. I realize how to speak the word over others and how to use the word in my own life every day.
2. I write my stories every day.
I realize that this lofty goal was not going to be completed this year when the only thing I wrote was the devotions.
3. I accomplish all I set out as a goal.
Yeah, this was a goal that was not going to get done because I limited my writing.
4. I know who I am in Christ.
This goal is a process that will probably take the rest of my life to accomplish but I've started seeding the word for this one so it has time and heart space to grow.
5. I know what it means to be a child of God.
The answer for this one is in 4.
6. I will create lessons for new HSP classes.
Still looking at this one to see what we can do with the classes.
7. I exercise and stay in shape to keep my body from becoming lazy.
I wish I could do more than what I've done this year. I realize I don't exercise at work as much as I would like to think.
8. Complete the classes and challenges I have set before me.
These were the classes outside of WDC. I haven't finished much of anything this year besides the devotions writing and reading 12 books for this year.

End of Year NOTES ▼

I completed the book reading challenge for the year. That's been a plus. This year has held some uncertainty and a lot of fear for a lot of people. I am thankful I still have a job. My family has been healthy through this time of virus; that doesn't mean we haven't come up with our own positive test results. We are all supposed to be quarantined till the Saturday after Christmas. Poor us.
I'm still writing the devotions and have them updated here for the rest of the year. I want to write something other than my devotions though. I want to write an erotic romance story. For some reason, the ideas that I have are not coming out as erotic. I have to write the story and then add erotic emotions to the characters. I want to accomplish something more with my writing. I received my ReMarkable this year and am using it for the Bible research I have going. I haven't read anything completely on it. I have things to read saved to it. I just need to read what I have and continue the story.
My husband has shown his selfish side and it's really so annoying. He comes home for Christmas this year and doesn't want us to go anywhere on Christmas Eve. So my children can't go to church. We went one year while he was home and no one died, the world didn't end and we still got to spend time with Tony. It was nice to do something different but we did it while he was home and he wasn't happy about it and threw a fit about us having to go.
I have one more week to take off for Christmas break then I go back to work. Looking forward to that. I'm working this next week to get some organization done around my office area. I've had to do some rearranging this holiday season as we have gotten new carpet in a couple of bedrooms (mine being one). so I had to downsize for a few days and it was nice not to have as much stuff in my room. I've changed my bookcases up a bit. Not quite exactly the way I wanted them but it works. I realize I've failed this year with my writing project. I'm really not too upset about it. I don't know what resolutions I have in mind to keep this new year. We'll see what happens.
Just did the math for the year end word count: 141,309 words written this year alone. I didn't hit the weekly goals that I wanted. but this encourages me to keep going with the writing I'm working on. It's nice to know I can really write some words for myself or for others if I could ever get them out there.