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April check-in; May goals
Days written: 12/31
Year to date: 64/240
Words written: 4,174
Percentage of those words written in one day: 26% (my Horizon Zero Dawn post)
Specific goals.... can I just say I missed them all, and rather badly, and leave it at that? I'm doing okay on other fronts, but as far as writing goes, I don't even know what to do. I'm not inspired to post. I started a little bit of fic and hated it, so that stopped. About the only thing I've managed to do is keep up with Lady Business anchor posts, barely, and write Goodreads reviews on those few occasions that I've actually finished a book. It seems almost ludicrous to set new goals for May. And yet I feel compelled to keep plugging away. But it's obvious that goals alone are not going to inspire me. What I really need, I think, is a space for creative and social writing that's separate from this place that's now my work desk -- or at least some way to differentiate the desk that isn't just closing my work laptop and disconnecting it from my monitor. I have no idea what that could look like in this not-large apartment that's essentially all one room, but I need to come up with something. I miss my writing. I need to find my way back to it.
Extremely gentle goals for May:
1. Write enough days that I don't fall a full month behind pace for my GYWO goal. That means at least 17, or a little more than 4 per week.
2. Post to my own DW at least 3 days each week.
3. See if I can't turn that fic idea into something postable by the end of the month.
Year to date: 64/240
Words written: 4,174
Percentage of those words written in one day: 26% (my Horizon Zero Dawn post)
Specific goals.... can I just say I missed them all, and rather badly, and leave it at that? I'm doing okay on other fronts, but as far as writing goes, I don't even know what to do. I'm not inspired to post. I started a little bit of fic and hated it, so that stopped. About the only thing I've managed to do is keep up with Lady Business anchor posts, barely, and write Goodreads reviews on those few occasions that I've actually finished a book. It seems almost ludicrous to set new goals for May. And yet I feel compelled to keep plugging away. But it's obvious that goals alone are not going to inspire me. What I really need, I think, is a space for creative and social writing that's separate from this place that's now my work desk -- or at least some way to differentiate the desk that isn't just closing my work laptop and disconnecting it from my monitor. I have no idea what that could look like in this not-large apartment that's essentially all one room, but I need to come up with something. I miss my writing. I need to find my way back to it.
Extremely gentle goals for May:
1. Write enough days that I don't fall a full month behind pace for my GYWO goal. That means at least 17, or a little more than 4 per week.
2. Post to my own DW at least 3 days each week.
3. See if I can't turn that fic idea into something postable by the end of the month.
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If you like scented candles, maybe have those when it's "writing time" and not when it's work time (since scent is a powerful trigger.)
If it's feasible, could the monitor and work laptop move to another table (and your good chair move with them) for work hours, and then move back for writing hours?
Perhaps make a frame for the monitor (fabric, poster board, wood?) with a "scene" (poster? color printouts?) for "the office" and remove it when the work day is done so the desk looks different?
A "kickoff song" when it is time for writing that says to your brain "hey we're doing This Now"?
I have used most of these, except the monitor-frame, myself to point out that we're switching gears from [freelance work, gaming, or just faffing around the internet] to writing to my brain, so they've all worked for me at some point. Hopefully one works for you?