Day 30 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 557 mins writing 📝
Not 12 days of Christmas, but 30 days of November:
-5 pgs cut ✂️
-4 talks in 3 days 🎤
-2 manuscripts, 2 abstracts edited ✔️
-rainsoaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout 🏕️
- @dodgers.com WS win 💍
and
-1 aims page 📃
#grateful
Day 29 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 542 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: Cut 0.5 pg! Down to 7.5... Now in the cuts that hurt 😅😂
Day 28 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 517 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: Black Friday changed the schedule but not the commitment. Day shopping and night writing ftw 🏆
Day 27 #NaGraWriMo: 27 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 492 mins writing 📝
Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for the opportunity to write and represent @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🦃
Also, totally unintentional numerology in writing 27 mins for the 27th day 🍀
Day 25 and 26 #NaGraWriMo: 10 (gra) and 15 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝
Rounding the bases...3 more pages trimmed ✂️
Day 24 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: I tend to look at both forest and trees, which is a skill in and of itself but also is time consuming. If #NaMaGraMo has taught me anything, you don't (shouldn't) have to keep doing it the way you always have 🙏
Day 23 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 440 mins writing 📝
3 weeks down, 1 to go! Challenging myself in the home stretch to cut 1 page per day to make the material fit the grant guidelines 😅🏋️
Day 21 and 22 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 425 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: This is the first year I've had to double-day post regularly. Reflecting that as feedback (and grace) for exactly how challenging this year has been in comparison to the last 4 yrs I've done this 🕊️
Day 19 and 20 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 390 mins writing 📝
2 more manuscript edits down 🥳
2/3 of November and #NaGraWriMo is in the books! 😅
Day 18 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 350 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: As much as I want edits to take less time as I have more editing years under my belt, they still take a lot of time! On day 3 of what I thought would be 1 day of editing...
Day 17 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (ma) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 330 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: Oops transposed a day, so adding that day back to the total. Too tired for math, but not too tired to write! ✍️💪
Day 14 + 15 #NaGraWriMo: 50 (ma) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 290 mins writing 📝
Real talk - gave 4 talks in 3 days, followed by a rain soaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout. I'm exhausted, happy, and should NEVER repeat a stretch like that again 🫠
Also HALFWAY DONE 🥳
Day 14 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 265 mins writing 📝
Abstract edits ✅
Manuscript edits 1/2 way…
Two weeks down 🏋️♀️
Day 13 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 240 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: Giving myself enough time to put away crucial pieces of writing (e.g. aims) and come back to them with fresh eyes, and repeating the process multiple times - I've had new thoughts each time #IterationWorks 🏆
Day 12 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 225 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: Noise does matter... Tomorrow recommitting to writing before everyone else wakes up 😇
Day 11 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 210 mins writing 📝
Today's insight: consistency is its own skill and reward (inspo from @dodgers.com, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani 💙)
Day 10 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) + 25 mins (ma) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 195 mins writing 📝
Post vaccine recovery day (Day 9)...learned that sleeping in kills the writing for me. Up early today and punched it out 🌞 #BeginAgain #RealWorldWriting #MondayMotivation
Day 8 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 155 mins writing 📝
Exhausted on a post vaccine day, but committed and completed 👊
Day 7 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 140 mins writing 📝
Routine broke yesterday, but as they say in meditation circles, #BeginAgain 🌬️ Back on track! One week down! 💪
Day 5 & 6 #NaGraWriMo: 15 +15 mins (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 125 mins writing 📝
Argh, forgot to post yesterday - living a life that I will appreciate for its fullness... 🙃
Day 4 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 95 mins writing 📝
#GoVote 🗳️
Day 3 #NaGraWriMo: 20 mins (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 80 mins writing 📝
Day 2 #NaGraWriMo: 20 mins (gra) ✅
Nov 2025 total: 60 mins writing 📝
Still soaking in the #WorldSeries joy and recovering from the exhaustion of 74 innings of fandom while traveling over the last week #WorthIt
Day 1 #NaGraWriMo: 30 mins (sm) + 10 mins (gra) ✅
This year, it's winning the #WorldSeries on Day 1 (and also Day 2 for you on EST) and then editing grants (gra) and social media (sm) copy for the rest of the month.
#DodgersWin #BackToBack #Champs
It's Nov 1! #NaMaWriMo and #NaGraWriMo are back! ✍️
In the month of November, challenge yourself and oomfs to write daily to complete a manuscript or grant:
117 words/day = 3500 word manuscript
200 words/day = 12 page R01 Research Strategy
RIP #NaNoWriMo - thank you for the inspo, the 🔥 is alive
Completion status - Academic #NaNoWriMo Day 30 ✅
Word count ➡️ 3167
Ok I wrote Day 30 on Dec 1 but so satisfying to complete that Pitfalls section. Made me think harder about how to push Team Science goals for this grant. What a difference a day makes 💙 #donesies #proud
#NaGraWriMo #NaMaWriMo
Black Friday 💸 status - Academic #NaNoWriMo Day 29 ✅
Word count ➡️ 3047
Made it to goal word limit, but still could use more fleshing out, so using all my November days to keep ✍️
#NaGraWriMo #NaMaWriMo
Thanksgiving 🦃 status - Academic #NaNoWriMo Day 28 ✅
Word count ➡️ 2916
Aims are solidifying and less than 100 words to goal... #grateful 🙏
#NaGraWriMo #NaMaWriMo
Current status - Academic #NaNoWriMo Day 27 ✅
Word count ➡️ 2831
4.5 pages of solid text so far and 200 words to goal... #grateful 🙏
#NaGraWriMo #NaMaWriMo
Current status - Academic #NaNoWriMo Day 26 ✅
Word count ➡️ 2704
Tbh struggling to make word count after a long clinic day but did it before falling asleep!! 💪😅
#NaGraWriMo #NaMaWriMo
