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Days written: 20/30
Words written: 9,993
Words of fic written: 3,305
Stories worked on: Two
Stories posted: One
Specific goals:
1. Write an average of 6 days per week. Stretch goal: 500 words per day, which won't catch me up entirely, but will get me a good bit of the way there. lol no. I just barely managed 5 days a week and didn't catch up to my wordcount goal at all. A couple of reasons for this, which I will get to below.
2. Finish and post SSR Confidential story -- due June 7th, so I have to prioritize this. Complete! I never did crosspost that here, so here you go -- it's a story about Jason Wilkes, and what happened to him after Season 2.
3. Once that's done, finish a draft of the crossover. Not remotely, and I think this is why I had such a hard time writing this month. This story is giving me real trouble, I think because it's not really a plot bunny; it's a premise bunny, which pulls out some character moments but doesn't give me any direction to take them. It doesn't help that, as far as I know, no artist has claimed my story, so I don't even have that as incentive. Posting starts at the end of this month, and there is just no way I'll be ready for that. I'm not sure what's going to happen here but I do intend to keep plugging away.
4. At least two posts for Lady Business -- for real this time -- and catch up on my GoodReads reviewing, which is woefully behind right now. Only got LB post, although I did catch up on GoodReads at least.
It's also time for a mid-year check on annual goals.
1. Write at least 240 days (an average of 20 days/month), with a stretch goal of writing 125,000 words. I'm exactly on pace for 240 days written, which is good, especially since I was behind the last time I checked in on annual goals. But I keep falling further behind on words written. (I have also not been entirely consistent in applying my higher bar for what counts as a writing day.)
2. Post to my own journal at least two days each week. Post to Lady Business at least once per month (not counting regularly scheduled posts). I've been managing at least one LB post a month more often, but my personal posting seems to be coming in bursts. Maybe I should think about why that is.
3. Write something about every book I read, every movie and show I watch, and every narrative game I play. Last time I said "I'm doing okay on books and games, not so great on movies." This is still true, with the exception of the MCU rewatch project. Also I'm not writing much about my TV watching. I just really need to commit to a weekly multimedia roundup.
4. Finish and post Wardens of Ivalice Part 3. Let me make this commitment right now: this will be my fiction project for the final quarter of 2019, unless something so deeply inspiring that I can't say no comes along (such as the The Adventure Zone story I wrote last year).
5. Participate in at least five fandom fic projects, whether those be exchanges, Big Bangs, completed bingo cards, or whatever catches my eye. Additionally, write and post at least two fics that are NOT in response to a request or a prompt. I continue to be on track for the first part of this goal, with the completion of my SSR Confidential story and progress on the WIP Big Bang. Sign-ups for Remix Revival opened today, so I expect that will be my fifth. As for the second non-prompted fic, the whole point of that is I won't know it's coming, so we'll see what happens.
I'm actually in better shape on annual goals that I expected, which suggests that I chose them reasonably well. Let's see if I do the same for July:
1. Write at least 5 days per week. This seems to be about what I can manage right now, so if I can push myself to 6 or even 7 on any one week it's a bonus, not a necessity to catch up.
2. Write a post about the week's media consumption every Friday. Catchy column title suggestions welcome.
3. Finish a draft of the CR/DA crossover.
4. At least two posts for Lady Business (this should be easy, since I have to do my midyear media roundup and finish my Hugo reading by the end of the month, both obvious topic choices).
Words written: 9,993
Words of fic written: 3,305
Stories worked on: Two
Stories posted: One
Specific goals:
1. Write an average of 6 days per week. Stretch goal: 500 words per day, which won't catch me up entirely, but will get me a good bit of the way there. lol no. I just barely managed 5 days a week and didn't catch up to my wordcount goal at all. A couple of reasons for this, which I will get to below.
2. Finish and post SSR Confidential story -- due June 7th, so I have to prioritize this. Complete! I never did crosspost that here, so here you go -- it's a story about Jason Wilkes, and what happened to him after Season 2.
3. Once that's done, finish a draft of the crossover. Not remotely, and I think this is why I had such a hard time writing this month. This story is giving me real trouble, I think because it's not really a plot bunny; it's a premise bunny, which pulls out some character moments but doesn't give me any direction to take them. It doesn't help that, as far as I know, no artist has claimed my story, so I don't even have that as incentive. Posting starts at the end of this month, and there is just no way I'll be ready for that. I'm not sure what's going to happen here but I do intend to keep plugging away.
4. At least two posts for Lady Business -- for real this time -- and catch up on my GoodReads reviewing, which is woefully behind right now. Only got LB post, although I did catch up on GoodReads at least.
It's also time for a mid-year check on annual goals.
1. Write at least 240 days (an average of 20 days/month), with a stretch goal of writing 125,000 words. I'm exactly on pace for 240 days written, which is good, especially since I was behind the last time I checked in on annual goals. But I keep falling further behind on words written. (I have also not been entirely consistent in applying my higher bar for what counts as a writing day.)
2. Post to my own journal at least two days each week. Post to Lady Business at least once per month (not counting regularly scheduled posts). I've been managing at least one LB post a month more often, but my personal posting seems to be coming in bursts. Maybe I should think about why that is.
3. Write something about every book I read, every movie and show I watch, and every narrative game I play. Last time I said "I'm doing okay on books and games, not so great on movies." This is still true, with the exception of the MCU rewatch project. Also I'm not writing much about my TV watching. I just really need to commit to a weekly multimedia roundup.
4. Finish and post Wardens of Ivalice Part 3. Let me make this commitment right now: this will be my fiction project for the final quarter of 2019, unless something so deeply inspiring that I can't say no comes along (such as the The Adventure Zone story I wrote last year).
5. Participate in at least five fandom fic projects, whether those be exchanges, Big Bangs, completed bingo cards, or whatever catches my eye. Additionally, write and post at least two fics that are NOT in response to a request or a prompt. I continue to be on track for the first part of this goal, with the completion of my SSR Confidential story and progress on the WIP Big Bang. Sign-ups for Remix Revival opened today, so I expect that will be my fifth. As for the second non-prompted fic, the whole point of that is I won't know it's coming, so we'll see what happens.
I'm actually in better shape on annual goals that I expected, which suggests that I chose them reasonably well. Let's see if I do the same for July:
1. Write at least 5 days per week. This seems to be about what I can manage right now, so if I can push myself to 6 or even 7 on any one week it's a bonus, not a necessity to catch up.
2. Write a post about the week's media consumption every Friday. Catchy column title suggestions welcome.
3. Finish a draft of the CR/DA crossover.
4. At least two posts for Lady Business (this should be easy, since I have to do my midyear media roundup and finish my Hugo reading by the end of the month, both obvious topic choices).
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Goals are hard
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They are, but I'm glad I persist in setting them, even though I'm still learning the balance between enough challenge and too hard. You'd think by forty-mumble that I would have figured this out, but not. :)
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