Here are some current projects I’m working on:

January: 

 

Posted thought-provoking questions in: 

  • Accountabuddies
  • Global Writing Community 

Answered thought-provoking questions in:  

  • Accountabuddies
  • A Question a Day
  • Write Warriors 

Kaylyn Gabbert fan page

Prompt:

  • A Question a Day

The Fierce Mermaid:

  • Worked on 
  • Researched 
  • Edit
  • Filed:
    • 2 research notes
    • 1 misc notes
    • 1 story notes 
  • Answered thought-provoking questions in: 
    • Accountabuddies
    • Write Warriors 
  • External chats folder:
    • Designed cover
    • Created Table of Content
    • Filed 3 

Office:

  • Filing cabinet:
    • Filed docs in 4 folders
    • Reorganized drawers 
    • Created 2 folders 
    • Pulled file out
  • Desk:
    • Organized drawers
    • Organized shelves
    • Restocked with new supplies 
    • Typed up and printed 2 docs for desk 

Goodreads:

  • Set this year’s reading challenge at 15 books
  • Read: 10/15
  • Once I reached 10 books I upped my goal to 25
  • Read 15/25

Updated… Albums:

  • My Styles
  • My Office 🥰 (just created)
  • Drawrings
  • Attire for my Characters Part IV 

Studied:

  • French
  • Magic:
    • Herbal
    • House
    • Moon
  • Sleep Hygiene 
  • Wise Women in History and Speeches They Gave
  • Medical pertaining to my own health

Artistics:

  • Scratch art:
    • Drew 7
    • Followed 2 designs to a T
  • Meditation sketch: 12

Scrapbooks:

  • Quotes:
    • Filed backlog
  • Created 9 pages
  • Researched:
    • 2 books
    • 1 magazines
  • Designed cover
  • Filed all pages

Grateful Dragon Egg Treasures of 2022:

  • Designed cover
  • Read original assignment
  • Started
  • Organized all cards and extras in chronological order 

Paying for the Past:

  • Updated:
    • Protective gemstones 
  • Collected 2 story notes 
  • Filed 2 story notes 

Journaling:

  • Meditation:
    • Researching
    • Wrote notes for 1 subject
  • Rebel Girls:
    • Did 3 assignments
  • Conscious Dreamer:
    • Read what I’ll need
    • Prepared notebook
    • Did 20 assignments
    • Kept dream journal
  • Medical Meditation:
    • Did 2 after sessions
  • Daily journal:
    • Kept track of how well I do in my daily habits
    • Kept track of my eating habits

Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group: Sprints:

  • First Meeting of the Month:
    • Wrote goals
    • Attended
    • Discussed:
      • New Year’s and our plans involving
      • Plant Light:
        • Member shared link for it
      • Year’s Grateful Challenge:
        • Shared it in detail at member’s request
      • Thriller/horror recommendations for a member
      • Five Below for books
      • 12 months of book recommendations
    • Discussed plans for the sprint
    • Worked on goals
    • Discussed progresses
    • Made sure I was signed up for all Wednesday sprints for the month
  • Second Meeting of the Month:
    • Emailed a member
    • Wrote goals
    • Started on goals
    • Attended
    • Wrote notes
    • Discussed:
      • How we are
      • How the new year is going
      • Cheaper book locations:
        • Five Below
        • Thriftbooks.com
      • Great Words from Wise Women by Anna Russell
    • Discussed our goals
    • Worked on our projects
    • Discussed our progresses
  • Third Meeting of the Month:
    • Wrote goals
    • Attended
    • Wrote notes
    • Discussed our goals
    • Worked on our projects
    • Discussed our progresses
  • Fourth Meeting of the Month:
    • Told a friend aboutInvited her to as a guest
    • Wrote questions down to ask
    • Signed up for all Feb. Meetings
    • Wrote goals
    • Attended
    • Wrote notes
    • Asked and found out my answers for my questions
    • Privately chatted with a guest and a member
    • Discussed our goals
    • Worked on our projects
    • Discussed our progresses
    • Discussed Wattpad

Accountabuddies:

  • Beta Reader 2 (I read chapters and email feedback and edits):
    • Gave them an update on my progress and what’s going on 
    • Started reading chapter
    • Added edits and notes
    • Created pages for both
    • Researched the spelling of words I was unsure aboutLet client know I started

Inspiration Dossier:

  • Assignments from my Past:
    • Collected 7
    • Filed 16
  • Best Writing:
    • Collected 1
    • Noted The Last Soldiers by Connor Makar
  • Letters:
    • Collected 2
    • Filed 13
  • Best Memories:
    • With Adam:
      • Collected 1
      • Noted 1
      • Filed 3
  • Best Memories:
    • Filed 3

Reviews/Surveys: 

  • Reviews:
    • Hot Topic:
      • Musical Note Lace-Up Arm Warmers
      • Safety Pin Grommet Arm Warmers 
      • Olive Green Lace-Up Arm Warmers
    • Surgical Consult appointment 
    • In-home nurse appointment via phone call from my insurance company
  • Surveys:
    • Access-a-ride (personal cab-like service provided by the city bus system for the elderly and disabled)

Girls Day Out:

  • Designed cover
  • Filed:
    • 1 story note
    • 1 misc notes

Sin Eater:

  • Collected 2 story notes 
  • Filed 2 story notes

Neck Bites and Risen Hairs:

  • Collected 1 story notes 
  • Filed 1 story notes

Adult Literacy Tutoring:

  • First Class of the Month:
    • Told my boss my hectic schedule next week
    • Covered for other tutor as well as taught my own student
    • The other tutor’s students told me what they had been working on and remembered what I had them working on last time they were in my class
    • Read Aesop’s Fables: 
      • We stwitched who read with each story
    • We went over:
      • How to pronounce words
      • UK vs. US spellings
      • Misspellings
      • Definitions
      • What each student wanted emailed to them
      • We had to troubleshoot a few times 
    • Emailed them different things but every email had the:
      • UK vs. US spellings
      • Misspellings and correct spellings
      • Definitions
  • Outside class:
    • Cleaned up and filed last year’s notes in filing cabinet
      • Keeping relevant notes available
    • Updated:
      • My student and goals list
      • Student list for tutor I cover for
      • Writing prompts
  • Second Class of the Month:
    • Checked to see how it went last week
    • Told students about certain books they may like
    • Went over student’s homework
    • Had extra students so we read Aesop’s Fables:
    • Went over:
      • How to pronounce words
      • UK vs. US spellings
    • After a couple students went with their tutor we moved onto writing
    • We talked about apps that could help them:
      • Lumosity
      • Dictionary.com
      • Memrise
      • Wattpad
      • Goodreads
    • Emailed 3 students

Music Nymphs:

  • Filed 1 research notes 

Pandora Welch page (admin)

An Unnatural Pull to Death:

  • Filed 2 research notes 

The Pain of the Silenced:

  • Edited
  • Added note for second draft 

International Women’s Day 2023:

  • Collection:
    • Reached out to 12 women
      • got 10 yeses
    • Asked one if she had preferred topics or topics I should stay away from
    • One woman asked for more interview time, so I told her how I plan to accommodate 
    • Asked another woman her preferred identity 
    • Looked at two interviews from last year

Kaylyn’s World Imaginary and Not:

  • Looked at my last two tributes to International Women’s Day

 

February:

 

Posted thought-provoking questions in: 

  • Accountabuddies
  • Global Writing Community 

Answered thought-provoking questions in:  

  • Spellcraft
  • A Question a Day
  • Write Warriors 
  • Accountabuddies 
  • Global Writing Community 

The Fierce Mermaid:

  • Worked on
  • Filed: 
    • 3 misc notes
    • 4 outline notes
    • 4 research notes 
    • 2 story notes
    • 5 character notes
  • Edited
  • Researched 
  • Answered thought-provoking questions in: 
    • Accountabuddies
    • Write Warriors 
  • Read notes I wrote
  • Updated:
    • Cast List
    • Name Game for:
      • Casmara
      • Driscoll
      • Jael
      • Casmira
      • Valerie 
      • Amelia 
  • Folder Part III:
    • Designed cover 
  • Met with and discussed story notes with mentor
  • Read Reader’s Digest and found helpful articles for characters

Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group: Sprint:

  • First Meeting of the Month:
    • Wrote goals
    • Attended
    • Took notes
    • Discussed: 
      • Surgery
      • Audio troubleshooting
      • The Nook
      • Cats and their behavior
      • Bookshelves
    • Discussed our goals
    • Worked on our projects
    • Discussed our progresses
  • Second Meeting of the Month:
    • Wrote goals
    • Attended
    • Took notes
    • Discussed our goals
    • Worked on our projects
    • Discussed our progresses
  • Third Meeting of the Month:
    • Wrote goals
    • Attended
    • Took notes
    • Discussed:
      • Weather
      • Publishing
      • Wild Garlic
    • Discussed our goals
    • Worked on our projects
    • Discussed our progresses
    • Were kind to ourselves

International Women’s Day Projects:

  • For Kaylyn’s World Imaginary and Not:
  • Interview Collection 2023:
    • Asked 3 new women if they were interested and they confirmed
      • 1 is uncomfortable being featured on blog 
      • 3 never got back to me
    • Updated table of contents 
    • Wrote questions for 13 women
    • Emailed 3 women their interviews
    • Interviewed 7 women via video chat
    • Interviewed 1 women via phone
    • Sent 2 women follow-up questions
    • Put 3 interviews together from interview 
    • Asked 11 women if they had any questions for me to answer
      • 2 people sent me questions
      • 4 are thinking of questions
      • 1 person has no questions for me
      • 3 have not gotten back to me
  • International Women’s Day from Kaylyn’s Universes Volume III:
        • Researched
        • Wrote notes for

Prompts:

  • Spellcraft:
    • 1 3 part assignment 
  • A Question a Day

Studied:

  • Meditation
  • French
  • Brain Training:
    • Language
    • Attention
    • Speed
    • Problem-solving
    • Flexibility
  • Vocabulary (from):
    • Brain Training:Word Snatchers Taking Root
    • Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day
    • My sibling’s book

Updated… Albums:

  • Attire for my Characters Part IV
  • My Styles
  • Memories I Want to Keep III

Kaylyn Gabbert fan page

Neck Bites and Risen Hairs:

  • Took notes for
  • Filed 3 research notes
  • Organized folder part II 
  • Read The Unofficial Harry Potter Bestiary for notes
  • Answered thought-provoking questions in Write Warriors

The Pain of the Silenced:

  • Read and highlighted notes from personal experience
  • Answered thought-provoking questions in Write Warriors

Idea book:

  • Added idea

An Unnatural Pull to Death:

  • Read and took notes from The Unofficial Harry Potter Bestiary for notes

Filing cabinet:

  • Filed docs in 4 folders
  • Created 1 new folder
  • Had to fish something out of 1 folder

Surveys/Reviews:

  • Surveys:
    • Brooklyn Hospital Center: 
      • About the care during my gallbladder surgery 
      • Follow-up with surgeon
    • Access-a-ride 

Adulting Literacy Tutoring:

  • Outside class:
    • Kept my boss updated on my recovery
    • Updated my notes
    • A student emailed me and I replied 

Obey Me 18+:

  • Read a member’s fanfiction:
    • Gave them feedback
    • Gave them possible ideasVoted for their story 
    • Commented on their story
  • Wished:
    • 1 happy birthday to a character
    • 2 happy birthdays for members
  • Talked to owner of group about how to get more people talking again
  • Started a new fanfic for self
    • Told my sibling

Inspiration Dossier:

  • Assignments from my Past:
  • Worked on:
    • Writer’s Digest:
      • Promotions
      • Goals and Intentions (asked one of my older brothers for help)
  • Collected 9
  • Letters: Collected 1
  • Best Memories:Worked on Nicknames 2023

Accountabuddies:

Beta Reader 1 (We read each others’ work to each other for edits and feedback):

  • First Meeting of the Month:
  • Checked in with beta reader:
    • Found where we were in: 
      • Sin Eater
      • Their story
  • Her story:
    • We worked on minor edits
  • Sin Eater:
    • Read and edited Repent for Your Jealousy
    • She suggested rewording
    • Commented on Google Docs

Beta Reader 2 (I read chapters and email feedback and edits):

  • Read a chapter
  • Edited
  • Wrote notes on a separate piece of paper and manuscript copy
  • Emailed author
  • Messaged her through Facebook messenger as she requested

Sin Eater:

  • First Meeting with Beta Reader: 
    • Read and edited Repent for Your Jealousy
    • She suggested rewording
    • Commented on Google Docs

Heart of Her Sleeve:

  • Read some chapters to one of my siblings
  • Edited
  • Sibling gave me feedback that I saved

Reviews of my WIPs

 

I had a breakdown between here and May. Going based on one of my older brother’s advice and my husband’s advice I’ll be editing this page differently and monthly. 

May:

Posted thought-provoking questions in:

  • Accountabuddies
  • Global Writing Community

Answered thought-provoking questions in:

  • A Question a Day
  • Accountabuddies
  • Global Writing Community
  • Write Warriors

Kaylyn Gabbert fan page

Checked-in with members’ mental health in (weekly thing):

  • Accountabuddies
  • Global Writing Community
  • Obey Me 18+
  • Minutes for Mental Health Challenge in May

Updated… Albums:

  • My Styles
  • Memories I Want to Keep III
  • Attires for My Characters Part IV

Adult Literacy Tutoring:

  • Planned out lesson plans
  • Student emailed me and I replied
  • Attended class
  • Went over homework
  • Taught students
  • Emailed students lessons from previous homework assignment, lesson we completed today, and homework
  • Gave them a Xeroxed copy Beasts and Beauty’s The Little Mermaid
  • Spoke to boss about:
    • Events sponsored by the library
    • Asked about a copy of Grimm Cinderella
    • Work
  • Met with head boss:
    • Learned lessons
    • Took notes
    • Asked for help

Obey Me 18+:

  • Fanfics:
    • To Second Chances (with a coauthor)
    • How to Save the Human
    • Tsunami (for a client)
    • Does Anyone Know the Real Me? (For a client)
  • Wished members happy birthday

Updated Goodreads yearly reading challenge list

Idea book

My stories:

  • Heart on Her Sleeve
  • The Fierce Mermaid
  • Neck Bites and Risen Hairs
  • Paying for the Past
  • An Unnatural Pull to Death
  • The Pain of the Silenced
  • Sin Eater

Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group:

  • Had technical issues
  • Attended
  • Emailed a member

Sent out:

  • 9 thoughtful Mothers’ Day cards
  • Charm bracelet with card
  • Book and charm bracelet with cards

June:

Posted thought-provoking questions in:

  • Accountabuddies

Answered thought-provoking questions in:

  • A Question a Day
  • Accountabuddies
  • Write Warriors

Kaylyn Gabbert fan page

Office:

  • Cleaned up and organized:
    • Pictures on my phone
    • Shelves and drawers of desk
    • Filing cabinet
    • Full office
    • Clipboard
  • Decorated room

Inspiration Dossier

Updated… Albums:

  • Attire for My Characters Part IV
  • Memories I Want to Keep III
  • My Styles

My Stories:

  • Project Poseidon
  • Heart on Her Sleeve
  • The Pain of the Silenced
  • An Unnatural Pull to Death
  • Sin Eater
  • Neck Bites and Risen Hairs
  • The Fierce Mermaid
  • Shuffling the Deck

Adult Literacy Tutoring:

  • Head bosses:
    • Signed up for meeting
  • Spoke to boss and head bosses about:
    • What my students want/ what I want for my students
    • What my plans are
    • Materials I’m in need of
    • Head boss emailed me reading materials
  • Class:
    • Went over students homework
    • Prepared for class
  • Classwork:
    • Went over:
      • Definitions
      • Prefixes/suffixes
      • Creative writing
      • Prompts and what they mean in-depth

Portfolio Part II

Obey Me 18+:

  • Fanfics:
    • To Second Chances (with coauthor)
    • Does Anyone Know the Real Me? (for client)
    • How to Save the Human
    • Tsunami (for client)
  • Talked to group creator about concerns
  • Deleted members
  • Wished character and members happy birthdays
  • Went over ways to help creative writing in students

Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group: Sprint:

  • Used this to work on projects
  • This helped me stay inspired during the times I couldn’t write fiction
  • Shared:
    • Book recommendations
    • A perfectionist self-assessment

Pandora Welch page (admin)

Accountabilibuddies:

  • Beta reader 1 (we read each others’ work to one another for edits and feedback):
    • Her work:
      • I read her first chapter and took notes on what she may want to look at before we could meet up
      • We went over her first chapter to get it prepared for a contest
      • We went over two different versions of the opening paragraph
    • Shared articles I thought she may like
    • My work:
      • I read her part of a scene of a new story and she gave me feedback
      • I read her the next chapter of my current project with her ad she told me what she liked

July:

 

Posted thought-provoking questions in:

  • Accountabuddies
  • Lucas Institute of High Nerdery (through Kaylyn Gabbert page)
  • Obey Me 18+ (through Kaylyn Gabbert page)

Answered thought-provoking questions in:

  • A Question a Day
  • Accountabuddies
  • Write Warriors
  • Global Writing Warriors

Kaylyn Gabbert fan page

Obey Me 18+:

  • Did mod/admin duties and let bosses know my progress
  • Fanfics:
    • To Second Chances (with co-author)
    • Does Anyone Know the Real Me? (client’s story)
    • How to Save the Human
  • Wished members and a character happy birthdays

My Stories:

  • Shuffling the Deck
  • An Unnatural Pull to Death
  • The Fierce Mermaid
  • Project Poseidon
  • The Pain of the Silenced
  • Sin Eater
  • Neck Bites and Risen Hairs
  • Paying for the Past
  • Heart on Her Sleeve

My Projects:

  • Idea Book
  • Grateful Dragon Egg Treasures of 2022
  • Inspiration Dossier
  • The Crime Book Notes
  • Forensic Files II Part IV

Updated… Albums:

  • My Styles
  • Memories I Want to Keep III
  • Attire for My Characters Part IV
  • 2023 Adventures

Office:

  • Filing cabinet:
    • Reorganized
    • Created new folder
  • Desk far away:
    • Reorganized
    • Cleaned up
  • Desk close by:
    • Reorganized
    • Cleaned up

Adult Literacy Tutoring:

  • Classes:
    • Let them know I may not be there for a date, and they cancelled for me
    • Prepared lessons for class
  • Head bosses:
    • Signed up for meeting with head bosses
    • Met with
    • Requested an emergency lesson plan system now that I’m the only tutor on my day of the week
  • Bosses:
    • Asked about if there’s another tutor on my rotation

Reviews:

  • Hard Rock Café after a dinner there
  • The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger

Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group: Sprint:

  • Attended weekly
  • Let them know when the writing workshops were

Accountabuddies:

  • Helped an Accountabilibuddy with her latest story

August:

Posted thought-provoking questions in:

  • Accountabuddies
  • Lucas Institute of High Nerdery (through Kaylyn Gabbert page)

Answered thought-provoking questions in:

  • A Question a Day
  • Accountabuddies
  • Write Warriors
  • Global Writing Community

Kaylyn Gabbert fan page

My Stories:

  • Heart on Her
  • Sleeve Shuffling the Deck
  • The Fierce Mermaid
  • Paying for the Past
  • An Unnatural Pull to Death
  • Sin Eater
  • Music Nymphs

My Projects:

  • Crime Book Notes (completed)
  • Meditation Writing
  • Writing Prompts Folder

Studied:

  • Crimes throughout history
  • French
  • Brain training games

Updated… Albums:

  • Attires of my Characters Part IV
  • Memories I Want to Keep III
  • My Styles
  • 2023 Adventures

Adult Literacy Tutoring:

  • Head boss:
    • Reached out to me to meet with me personally and we scheduled a time
    • Privately met with head boss twice
    • We spoke on:
      • My lesson plans
      • How the students are doing with examples
      • How to make longer-term goals
      • The head boss sent me writing prompts
      • If there are reading challenges through the library; there currently aren’t
      • A new writing prompt book I have for myself and students and how it works; 1-Minute Writer by Leigh Medeiros
      • Long-term projects and how to set them up
      • When the notes from the end-of-the-month meeting and September’s writing prompts will go out
  • Class:
    • Went over a few assignments when students got confused over what assignments I assigned the week before
    • Did writing assignments together
    • Talked to them about:
      • Writing prompts
      • Apps and resources that could help them
      • What they were reading
      • Upcoming reading challenge in the world around them
    • Helped students with:
      • Editing (spelling and grammar)
      • Research
      • Identifying flowers
      • Explained prompts and what they meant
    • Emailed students homework
  • Outside of class:
    • Marked when another student was coming back
    • Reorganized my notes folder
    • Researched and set up my lesson plans

Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group: Sprint:

  • Emailed mentor and we chose private meeting time (During one meeting)
  • Got all of my reading goals done
  • Privately met with my mentor via Zoom
  • Showed them book recommendations
  • Privately met mentor in the real world
    • Sold mentor a copy of Drag Me to Hell and Head Hunters
  • Shared a reading challenge in September that I heard about with them

Office:

  • Decorated laptop
  • Organized stickers:
    • Found more stickers and organized them
  • Organized backpack
  • Organized giant filing cabinet

Reviews/surveys:

  • Reviews:
    • The Crime Book by DK Penguin Random House
    • What’s Inside a Flower by Rachel Ignotofsky
    • Don’t Read This Book by Evil Hat Productions
  • Surveys:
    • Access-a-Rides (MTA taxi like rides for the disabled and elderly)

Obey Me 18:

  • Fanfics:
    • Does Anyone Know the Real Me? (For client)
    • How to Save the Human
    • To Second Chances (Coauthoring)
  • Helped handle member grievances
  • Wished members and character happy birthday

Accountabuddies:

  • Asked one of my beta readers for help with Sin Eater and Reviews of my WIPs
  • During a meeting we worked on the review together

Website:

Pictures with Other Authors

Reviews of my WIPs