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Another Productivity Challenge

Alright! I'm back at it, since my UT2 schedule has been released (not me trying to make it sound as if it's something exciting, like an album). Now, these begin on the 3rd of October, so I'm starting this challenge about 2 weeks prior so that I remain focused on my studies, ensuring I do better this time around.

This one's gonna last 20 days this time around!!! 21st September to 10th October (the day my second round of UT's end).

Also, since the last time's challenge was a bit all over the place, I'm making a couple self-imposed rules for myself:

Must post before sleeping

Remember to click pictures (just cuz)

Finish allotted amount of work for any given day (to reduce procrastination)

Since it's getting late and I have to sleep slightly earlier tonight, I won't add more to this, but I will post my UT schedule tomorrow, alongside my tentative study plan.

How to write IB essays:

As told by my economics teacher when he was telling us how to write our IAs and told is that it would be good for any subject with essay questions.

There are three criteria to achieve:

Evaluate: Evaluations give grades 6-7, with 450 words on it

Apply: Applying knowledge gives levels 4-5, here we should give explanations and if there are any diagrams explain that as well, with 250 words on it

Knowledge: This gives grades 1-3, here we should write down definitions and background information, with a word count of 150 words.

How to write it:

Intro: State and explain the dilemma, justify its importance, and use minor citations.

Body: Here we should show off our knowledge, using definitions, diagrams with explanations of any, basically used to analyse the situation. This analysis is then used to evaluate.

Note: it is useful to underline or highlight important keywords or statements in the assignment or exam paper, it shows where all the work is done and also leaves a good impression on the examiner.

y’all i had this cute idea for making shitty abstract pride flags and i love them

AMAZING I'M SO PROUD OF YOU HOLY SHIT, CONGRATULATIONS-

it just hit me that for YEARS my whole (and only) major goal was to have a book published before i turned 25. that was all baby-alex in 2018 was gunning for when we started taking writing seriously.

in the time since, my publishing journey has been HARD. i mean, it has sucked some major balls. i'm talking 'getting surprise divorced the week you're supposed to start your contracted structural edits' hard.

like, 'nobody tells you anything and if other people miss deadlines, it's your problem now and you're BEING a problem just by asking why' hard. like, 'oh, you mean you're struggling with the weight of writing/editing 6 hours a day and working enough to support yourself while dealing with a chronic illness? have you tried giving up SLEEPING?' (i wish i was joking that's a verbatim quote) hard.

but now, at the end of all that bullshit, my book comes out on february 6th.

i turn 25 on march 4th.

i did it.

Day 11/14, 10th September, 2023 – Sunday

Studied for my chemistry and maths exam on Monday. I'm posting late again, so I can tell you that neither of them went well. It seems that my classmates and I have grossly underestimated exactly how tough and rigorous the IBDP really is. We have a rough idea of when our next sets of tests will be though, so I'm going to begin preparing for those now; I need to do better. I'm also beginning to realise that writing things down really helps me retain them, as well as having someone quiz me on the notes I've made. So we're making progress in other ways, even if my grades aren't brilliant just yet.

If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

https://openlibrary.org/

and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.

i hope that one day i will finally be ok….i’ll make a cherry pie when it is all over

Day 17/20, 7th October, 2023 – Saturday

We had school today, but barely any of our teachers were there, plus, a lot of people had their Computer Science test, so we didn't have classes either. Anyway, I have my Biology test on Monday, so I finished A1.1 Water for that during my last period. I wasn't able to work much after school, though, because we had to go over to a relative's place for dinner.

@anoncharli3 honestly, imagine posting amiright

I have a specific day of the week when I like to post fic and wondered if this is true for other writers as well. By posting, I mean publishing anything new on AO3 or a similar site, whether it's a complete work or a chapter update.

If you would share this with other fic writers, I would be grateful for the larger sample size!