Okay, no, for real. It cannot be July already. How did this happen?
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: Uhhhh
- On Target or Behind: Questionable
How’s It Going:
Apparently my time issues will continue to haunt me. *lays down on the floor*
I think I’ve finally figured out a system that works for me (thanks, SYCU), unfortunately, that is not how I did things the first time with this one. I used a combination of Scrivener and Aeon Timeline (and winging it), and I’m having issues with both of them right now. I’ve managed to mostly get over the learning curve on Scrivener, but now it’s giving me hell with the latest update not wanting to install and it telling me it can’t register or something. I can still force it into trial mode, but it’s a royal pain in the ass. As for Aeon Timeline, number one, I don’t know what happened, but I was pretty sure I had a paid version gifted to me the one year I managed to win NaNoWriMo. Now it’s telling me my trial is over and I have to pay $50 for it. Which really isn’t bad if I can’t figure out how to get the serial code somewhere, only my number two is… I hate using it. It is so complicated and I don’t really understand it. Number three, all the information on time that I had is stuck in a file I can only open with Aeon. Woo hoo.
So, I get to go through and reverse engineer what I did so I can put it in my calendar format so I can figure out what the hell I’m doing here.
Yay.
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 16, roughly halfway done? These are hard to measure sometimes, jesus
- Where I am: Lesson 16, uhhh, almost done? Hopefully?
- On Target or Behind: On Target
How’s It Going:
And this is why I love Holly’s method, kids. Lesson 16 is about consistency, making sure you keep everything in mind that you wanted to fix during the write-in. Which includes making what Holly calls a Laundry List, basically a list of everything you want to remember to fix that you keep close by for easy access while doing the write-in. (Easy, right?)
Thankfully for me, this includes going through ALL of my notes, worksheets, notecards, etc, looking for anything I might have forgotten before now. (You know what, maybe this list should be started at the very beginning of the process, adding to it as I go along. Hm.) Anyway, I realized I still had a handful of white notecards (i.e. original first draft scenes) that I still liked and wanted to use at least part of, I just didn’t know how or where when I was transferring everything to the neon cards (my final outline). A couple of them were easy enough to just tack on to existing neon cards because they fit in perfectly, but then I had a couple of others that were a little more difficult. I didn’t have scenes that already pertained to them. But at this point, I can see how much I love them, how good they could be with a little tweaking, and the depth they would add to the story with proper placement, so I know I have to work them in somehow.
Cue me running back to my calendar of scenes to try to figure out where to put these rogue scenes. And realizing I might still have a plot hole. *headdesk* (And this is also why I like using pencil a lot more than Holly does.) But this is good, really, because I want to do the work here, so I have a good working plan during the write-in, and so I don’t have as much to do after I run it past an editor. My ultimate goal is to not have to do anything after running it past an editor, but ah. Dunno how realistic that is. I can try though.
GOAL 3) SURVIVAL
- My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
- Where I planned to be: 21000 words
- Where I am: 21171 words
- On Target or Behind: On Target
How’s It Going:
It was a decent week. Nothing spectacular, but not bad either. Although I feel I ended on a high note because I started setting up some of the issues my guys will have to work through before getting to the midpoint.
Meilo Zaborowski: Author 