Goal Update 6/13

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: Somewhere
  • On Target or Behind: On Target… ish?

How’s It Going:
I broke down and bought a printer. I’m tired of waiting for all this virus bullshit to blow over so I can use the school library, but apparently they’ve gone full online for fall too, so idek if the library is gonna open any time soon. Of course, I could use the public library (I think they’ve reopened?), or the UPS store (which is more cost effective for printing a lot of pages at once), but an affordable laser printer here at home is… even cheaper in the long run and more convenient. And no page limits. Plus, you know, I can print out my worksheets instead of hand-writing them. And dad can print stuff when he needs it, yadda yadda.

Anyway, it showed up Tuesday (after I spent way too long staring at the UPS tracking map where you can watch the truck drive in circles around your house but never actually get there), and I had to follow some cryptic-ass IKEA instructions to take all the paper and tape off. But I figured out how to get the software and drivers without a CD drive (because who has a CD drive in their laptop anymore, right??? pro tip, the internet is awesome), and managed to print a test page. By then I was tired of messing with it so I waited until Thursday to figure out how to get it to work over the network (so I don’t have to take my laptop in the other room) and print out my final draft so I can go through and make my edits from Matt’s notes.

But after printing everything, having to reorder the pages because I forgot to flip up the paper catch thing so everything fell on the floor, then hole punching almost 200 pages (single sided! but I made the font and line spacing smaller than the standard manuscript format) with my dinky little binder punch that only goes through about 3 pages at a time… I was actually sweating a little so I’ll leave starting the edits for tomorrow. Idk what it is about sitting at the kitchen table to do stuff but I get so hot for some reason.

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 13, somewhere halfway, fuck if I know
  • Where I am: Lesson 13 finished; Lesson 14… getting there
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Turns out, as I was trying to work through my conflicts… I realized I’d already done this in the process of straightening out my plot, just in my own way. No reason to do the work twice. (I swear I’m not trying to rush these!)

So I started on 14, the first of the two time lessons. Pretty simple, really, just tedious and annoying. But I want to avoid the issues I had with SKoS involving time, so I’m really trying to do the work here. Although, most of my problems were between scenes, which is really where Lesson 15 comes in, but because so much of this is either getting reworked or completely rewritten, I need to have my in-scene time down too. It’s just… not the most fun part of this.

I want to cut! Where’s my scissors emoji…

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

  • My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
  • Where I planned to be: 16500 words
  • Where I am: 16725 words
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
If I thought I went dark before, uh… let’s just say this is not a happy story at all. But for some reason I like writing this kind of thing, because this week went really well.

I’m morbid, what can I say?