October update; November goals

Days written: 22/31
Words written: 9,932
Words of fic written: 7,430
Stories worked on: Four and some ficlets
Stories posted: One plus ficlets

( Chart has some catching up to do. )

The moral of October is that I shouldn't give myself a goal in order to make myself do something I'm not really motivated to do. Progress on said goals:

1. Write at least five days per week. Yes, on average.

2. Work on Wardens of Ivalice. Lolnope.

3. Pick an owed gift fic and finish it to final draft stage. No matter how lousy. Then send it to a beta and make it better. I got a few words on one potential gift fic, but it's too similar to another story I was working on (the one that became Going Undercover, so I wasn't inspired at all. Probably will need to rethink that story completely.

4. Post at least twice per week and participate in ushobwri on a weekly basis. I actually almost made the first half of this (only posted once on the week of 10/11. Not so much with ushobwri.

So the obvious next question is: what am I really motivated to do? And how do I translate that motivation into getting myself to actually sit down and write? I don't completely know the answer to that question, but maybe following through on my annual November rituals will help. Long-time readers of this blog will know that I don't do NaNoWriMo, but I do participate in some writing projects inspired by it, and those will figure heavily into my goals for the month.

1. Write at least ten minutes every day, per ushobwri tradition, and check in at least once a week.

2. As I have attempted every November since 2006, post in my journal at least once every day. To that end, I think I'm going to take journaling prompts, which is something I haven't done in a long time. I'll put up a separate post for those later today. Unlike in most months, my daily post does not count toward daily writing (if I counted it, that goal would become pretty meaningless).

3. Write my dragonagebb story and turn in final draft.

4. Make progress on Wardens of Ivalice or the overdue giveaway fic.

Blogging Prompts Request Post

As threatened in my writing goals post for this month, I am taking prompts for journal post topics. Rules adapted from the Blogging Through December meme that went around a few years ago.

The Rules:

Pick a topic, and on some day in November I will post something about that topic. It can be fandom-related or not. Pretty much anything you've ever seen me post about unlocked, or comment on in other venues, is fair game. If a topic is uncomfortable for me (too personal or potentially identifying) or simply something I know very little about (unfamiliar canon, say), I may ask you to make a second choice. If you want to request more than one topic (up to three), feel free, but if I get more than 25 or so requests I may pick and choose between them. All followers, mutual or not, are welcome to leave requests.

( The Topics )