March Goals!

[chocochipbiscuit]

I made my February goals, yay! I ended up writing 23 days out of the month, though I didn't do as much word-tracking; I've been making more writing by hand, and while I can do a rough estimate of the wordcount...I just didn't feel like it. GYWO habit pledge of 240 words is still comfortably on track, and I'm even budgeting in extra days while I can because I know my productivity will take a hit in certain months.

The first draft of the Jathena fic is done...and just shy of 10k words. But 9.8k words still isn't shabby, and I also entirely cut some scenes from the outline because I realized they felt unnecessary. Of course, I might add them back in for the second draft, so. *shrug*

So! Goals for this month:

• just sit on the Jathena fic for at least 1 week, then go back in for revisions. This will be a month of revisions!
• plan (and outline) a fic for the April Camp Nano! My friend Duster has been shamelessly encouraging me for this, though I still need to actually pick a fic. (Spoilers: it's probably going to be either the Breanna/Delilah fic or Danse Does Vegas. Might as well put my 2019 goals to work, right?)
• finish reading the Chocolate Box fics I marked for later and make a rec list!!!

I also thought very hard about adding a fourth bullet point to start doing writing exercises or prompts, as a way of staying in practice for writing short stuff, not just revisions or outlines...but right now I'm still feeling that first-draft fatigue of finishing something and want to be gentle with myself for now. Just because something's not on my bullet list doesn't mean I'm not gonna do it for funsies.

How has everyone's goals (writing, personal, other?) been going? Anyone want to yell about things you're proud of or plan on doing? :D

Comments

[wolffyluna]

<3

[chocochipbiscuit]

<3!

[thewindysideofcare]

Well done on sticking to your writing goals and getting so much done consistently!

I wish I could say the same, but my February has not been as productive as my January. I did write two short fics for the chocobox exchange, but that was it. I had plans to write an epilogue for my Hands fic and fill some more short prompts but the month has just been busy. I wasn't home three weekends in a row and, well.

Chocolate Box had some really great fic and I should also try and keep track of my favourites. Definitely looking forward to your rec list, too.

[chocochipbiscuit]

To be fair, I don't go out much! I'm staring at your line about not being home for 3 weekends in a row and am both envious ("wow, I should go out more!") and flummoxed ("how do you rest???").

[thewindysideofcare]

I generally subscribe to the "a change is as good as a rest" idea (and one of those weekends also consisted of visiting friends then hanging out and watching tv/movies, cooking and eating) - but yes, it was also a lot. I plan to spend this weekend not going out and drinking coffee and reading - and playing video games on my own. ;)