My first post!

Hello! I am planning to use this space to talk about my game development journey, meet like-minded people, and get feedback for games I create.
Currently I am working with Game Maker 8.1 lite. I am new to programming and so I am really sloshing about with gml. I have found both the yoyo forums and reddit very helpful for my many questions.
I am currently working on a little dog walking game. I was hoping to have it finished by September 1st, but I went on vacation and am behind. That was a soft date anyways. My new target is October 1st. Unfortunately my game is having to take a backseat to a couple of other things right now.

I don't know what other people do, but I keep a log using this:  writer.bighugelabs.com . I write various lists. One is the big list, where I break down my to-dos into weeks until the due date. It's very general. Then I take the first week and write out what I think I can accomplish that week. Each day I add a list under that, where I write what problems I have found, code that doesn't work right or design issues. So then when I sit down to work the next day, I can start from my list and start trying to solve the issues. I also continually do a sort of mental walk through of the game and jot down features that need to be added or things that need to be removed.
Since I'm not much of a programmer, I hit walls all the time. To keep myself from getting discouraged, I really try to celebrate all of my tiny successes!

Alright, that's my first post!