Goal Update 5/30

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: Still working on covers
  • On Target or Behind: Where am I even going again?

How’s It Going:
I finished the fourth cover for this last potential title, but I’m holding off posting them to the forums. Why? Because I want to look at them one more time in a couple of days, especially the one I finished Thursday, and really make sure they’re the best I can manage right now and in line with what other covers are doing in the genre right now.

GOAL 2) REVISE SYCU

  • My Goal: 2 Lessons per month/ 1 Lesson every 2 weeks; 3 chapters/13 scenes per day
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 11, finished
  • Where I am: Lesson 11, rough plot fixes done, still need to finalize outline
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
My stupid index cards finally showed up on THURSDAY. (Well, okay, the neon ones I use for my Focus Outline got here Wednesday, but the ones I needed for this Interweaving Threads lesson got here Thursday.) They shipped last Friday, took an unnecessary and extended loop around the DFW area including some small town I’ve never heard of before, ending up in the same place they started before coming to me. In the meantime, between Dad and I, we’ve had TWO other Amazon Prime packages show up just fine via USPS. IDK WTH they were smoking with these index cards. But they’re here and I was able to finally do some heavy plot work.

Plotting something sinister. >:D

It didn’t take long to thread these together after getting everything made up (I already had what I was going to write on the cards typed up), but it was a lot of brain work, so I’m going to leave working out the final kinks in my outline to next week.

Yes, this puts me at 3 weeks for this lesson, but this is important, and I’m easily ahead on this. Current projection at 2 weeks per lesson has me finishing at the end of October. Even giving myself an extra 2 weeks for Lesson 17 (the write-in) and Lesson 21 (the type-in) would have me finishing by Christmas. And I’m fully expecting some lessons in between to be short, from my experience with SKoS.

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

  • My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
  • Where I planned to be: 13500 words
  • Where I am:  13624 words
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Didn’t get as much out of Lesson 17 as I’d hoped. And I haven’t tried the Interweaving technique on this yet, since I only just got the cards and I like to focus on actually getting my words in.

But. This week was pretty good. I went dark. Considering the subject, that was to be expected. And most of my stories get dark. But this, idk, this felt like the beginning of something even darker. It’s actually a little funny, but… maybe that’s just my dark sense of humor.

I like it.