Goal Update 4/11

GOAL 1) PUBLISH SKOS

  • My Goal: Spend at least 10 mins, 3 days/week minimum
  • Where I planned to be: Spent at least 30 mins
  • Where I am: No one’s paying attention anyway
  • On Target or Behind: On target?

How’s It Going:
I am SO DAMN CLOSE with these covers, I’m telling you. While I’ve been waiting for all the feedback to come through this week, I’ve been scouring the internet for typography tips, and anything book cover related. Because while I’ve almost pinned down the image part, the main complaints I’m getting now are typography related. And I’ve discovered that the ins and outs of typography are… well, subtle and tedious.

I did rediscover an old bookmark to Matthew Butterick’s Practical Typography. I don’t know when or where I found it, but it’s just been chilling in my bookmarks for who knows how long. I will say it was an interesting read, and may prove useful later (which may have been past-me’s thinking as well), but not so much for my current issue.

YouTube tutorials. It’s all about the YouTube tutorials…

GOAL 2) REVISE SYCU

  • My Goal: 2 Lessons per month/ 1 Lesson every 2 weeks; 3 chapters per day
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 6, through chapter 9
  • Where I am: Finished Lesson 6
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
*thumbs up* This lesson went faster than I expected. Since this was all about characters, and I technically did most of the work finding them in Lesson 2, I didn’t even have to read through everything this time.

On to the next.

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

  • My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
  • Where I planned to be: 3000 words
  • Where I am:  3002 words
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I’m still loving this. It’s stupid and crazy and I haven’t even gotten to the fun parts yet. I feel like I’m doing a great job fleshing out the characters in such a short span, or maybe it’s just in my head. Either way, I love them already, and I can’t wait to make them suffer through hell take them on an interesting adventure!

Snippet time!

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“Dude, that’s just a… oh my god, that’s a massive cow.”

Aaren scrambled to his feet, wanting to look again but not wanting to get too close, settling for clutching at one post of his bed and peering around Brandon’s shoulder. Sure enough, the hulking frame of a solid black cow nearly filled the small, grassy area outside their window, almost too long to stand between the trees. Its head was down, calmly grazing on the grass, but its back was almost level with the floor under their feet.

“Allow me to rephrase: that’s a massive bull.”

Aaren glanced at Brandon. “How can you tell?”