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December and 2020 wrap-up; January and 2021 goals
Days written: 17/31
Words written: 4,953
Words of fic written: 2,024
Stories worked on: One
Stories posted: One (reveal in January)
Days written in 2020: 206
Words written in 2020: 50,734
Fic words written in 2020: 7,798
Fic words posted in 2020: 4,974
December:
1. Write at least 5 days a week; post at least 4 days a week. Bonus: get up to 50,000 words for the year. I actually made the bonus goal (barely -- and only because I forgot to include February 29th in my running wordcount tracker, so I had fewer words to go than I thought) but neither of the others.
2. Write and post Critmas fic (due 12/23; not started yet). Done, although I needed an extension. It's live but creator reveals haven't happened yet, so I'll link it next time.
3. Continue to work on the Codex entries. Didn't touch them. I need to re-immerse myself in Dragon Age, on which see more below.
2020:
1. Hit the 240-day Habit Pledge goal for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getyourwordsout. The fact that I not just failed this but by so much (almost 2 months worth of writing days) has really given me pause. Yes, no one could have predicted 2020, or just how badly working from home was going to mess with my creative process, but surely I should have figured out the balance by now.
2. Post in my journal at least two days per week (not counting Monday Media Musings) and write a full post for Lady Business at least once per month (outside of contributing to group projects. I'd forgotten that I set the bar for posting in my own DW so low, and that makes me even sadder to have missed it (although looking back over my archive, I probably managed it at least half the time). Bear in mind, though, that I basically gave up Monday Media almost entirely with the start of the pandemic, which was in retrospect my biggest mistake of the year -- it's not like I wasn't consuming media, and putting myself on a schedule for writing about it might have helped with structure and continuity. Getting back to this project is probably my most important goal for 2021, along with getting my act together with writing real content for LB (I did at least manage to keep up with anchor posts).
3. At the end of each quarter, consider whether to add some goal relating to fic to this list. I never did add a goal, but I started writing fic again in May. I'm undecided as to whether taking a break from fic was a good idea or not, but either way I'm glad to be back to it, even in a small way.
4. Add every book to Goodreads within a week of finishing it, and continue the Monday Media Musings series. I did... okay with GR. For MMM, see above.
With 2020 hindsight (I promise never to make that joke again... maybe), I can understand why I didn't hit my goals, either for the year or in almost any month. And I try not to beat myself up for it, but given that I still haven't figured out the balance, I'm not entirely certain where to go from here. But setting goals is important to me, so I'll put some bars out on the floor and do my best not to trip over them.
2021 goals:
1. Try to hit the 240getyourwordsout Journeyman Habit goal. I considered signing up for the next goal down, at 120 days/year, and then having tighter rules for what counts as a writing day, but I know myself pretty well, and I think I would start cheating on those rules pretty quickly. So I decided to stick with what I've been doing, as a better bet for easing back into a writing habit.
2. Sign up forwipbigbang and use the challenge as an opportunity to finish the sequel to "Face the Music".
3. Once that's done, turn my attention to Wardens of Ivalice Part 3.
4. Write at least one post forladybusiness every month (already have some plans for this in the works) and post Monday Media Musings at least three times a month.
Goals for January:
1. Get ahead of GYWO pace by writing an average of 6 days a week.
2. Finally start the Dragon Age: Inquisition game for my Mahariel canon. I should have done this long ago, but I've had a hard time motiving myself to play out the DA2 game (I'm stuck somewhere early in Act 3) because I just don't care that much about Sylvie Hawke -- I haven't discovered anything interesting or different about her. So I'll just make some decisions about how her canon would have played out, update the Keep, and move on to DA:I. (And then once that's done, go back and start a full canon run, beginning with DA:O, probably Tabris because that's the only origin I haven't played out yet.) This also will force me to take a break from Civ 6, which is probably a good idea in and of itself.
3. Begin a new fandom project that I can't really talk about yet, but I promise you I'm super excited about it!!
Words written: 4,953
Words of fic written: 2,024
Stories worked on: One
Stories posted: One (reveal in January)
Days written in 2020: 206
Words written in 2020: 50,734
Fic words written in 2020: 7,798
Fic words posted in 2020: 4,974
December:
1. Write at least 5 days a week; post at least 4 days a week. Bonus: get up to 50,000 words for the year. I actually made the bonus goal (barely -- and only because I forgot to include February 29th in my running wordcount tracker, so I had fewer words to go than I thought) but neither of the others.
2. Write and post Critmas fic (due 12/23; not started yet). Done, although I needed an extension. It's live but creator reveals haven't happened yet, so I'll link it next time.
3. Continue to work on the Codex entries. Didn't touch them. I need to re-immerse myself in Dragon Age, on which see more below.
2020:
1. Hit the 240-day Habit Pledge goal for
getyourwordsout. The fact that I not just failed this but by so much (almost 2 months worth of writing days) has really given me pause. Yes, no one could have predicted 2020, or just how badly working from home was going to mess with my creative process, but surely I should have figured out the balance by now. 2. Post in my journal at least two days per week (not counting Monday Media Musings) and write a full post for Lady Business at least once per month (outside of contributing to group projects. I'd forgotten that I set the bar for posting in my own DW so low, and that makes me even sadder to have missed it (although looking back over my archive, I probably managed it at least half the time). Bear in mind, though, that I basically gave up Monday Media almost entirely with the start of the pandemic, which was in retrospect my biggest mistake of the year -- it's not like I wasn't consuming media, and putting myself on a schedule for writing about it might have helped with structure and continuity. Getting back to this project is probably my most important goal for 2021, along with getting my act together with writing real content for LB (I did at least manage to keep up with anchor posts).
3. At the end of each quarter, consider whether to add some goal relating to fic to this list. I never did add a goal, but I started writing fic again in May. I'm undecided as to whether taking a break from fic was a good idea or not, but either way I'm glad to be back to it, even in a small way.
4. Add every book to Goodreads within a week of finishing it, and continue the Monday Media Musings series. I did... okay with GR. For MMM, see above.
With 2020 hindsight (I promise never to make that joke again... maybe), I can understand why I didn't hit my goals, either for the year or in almost any month. And I try not to beat myself up for it, but given that I still haven't figured out the balance, I'm not entirely certain where to go from here. But setting goals is important to me, so I'll put some bars out on the floor and do my best not to trip over them.
2021 goals:
1. Try to hit the 240
getyourwordsout Journeyman Habit goal. I considered signing up for the next goal down, at 120 days/year, and then having tighter rules for what counts as a writing day, but I know myself pretty well, and I think I would start cheating on those rules pretty quickly. So I decided to stick with what I've been doing, as a better bet for easing back into a writing habit.2. Sign up for
wipbigbang and use the challenge as an opportunity to finish the sequel to "Face the Music".3. Once that's done, turn my attention to Wardens of Ivalice Part 3.
4. Write at least one post for
ladybusiness every month (already have some plans for this in the works) and post Monday Media Musings at least three times a month.Goals for January:
1. Get ahead of GYWO pace by writing an average of 6 days a week.
2. Finally start the Dragon Age: Inquisition game for my Mahariel canon. I should have done this long ago, but I've had a hard time motiving myself to play out the DA2 game (I'm stuck somewhere early in Act 3) because I just don't care that much about Sylvie Hawke -- I haven't discovered anything interesting or different about her. So I'll just make some decisions about how her canon would have played out, update the Keep, and move on to DA:I. (And then once that's done, go back and start a full canon run, beginning with DA:O, probably Tabris because that's the only origin I haven't played out yet.) This also will force me to take a break from Civ 6, which is probably a good idea in and of itself.
3. Begin a new fandom project that I can't really talk about yet, but I promise you I'm super excited about it!!
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*handwaggle*
So, the thing is, and I know I'm a broken record and this is being said a lot, but, 2020 is an ongoing trauma we're not out of yet. It would be one thing if you had gotten a new job in a "normal" year that messed with your balance and creative process but you still had friends in person, cons, outings, and did not have the ongoing threat of what a certain person in a specific location was going to do, plus all the other problems that came to a head this year.
but you (we) did have all those things this year.
I don't know about you, but I'd been watching my creativity slowly sink since...oh, November 2016, just about. This year really kicked it in the face, but it's been going that way for a while. It's part of why I moved my goal to 120 original writing days, to take some pressure off but still push myself to keep going.
anyway, my two cents and worth what you paid for it, but obviously I have A Few Emotions about this topic. XD