Goal Update 7/25

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: I don’t even know anymore
  • On Target or Behind: What am I even doing

How’s It Going:
While this isn’t nearly as painful as revising SYCU right now, it’s still… tedious and annoying.

On the upside, I’ve gotten most of the kinks worked out, minus the Keziah overhaul. I’m still not sure how I want to go about doing that just yet. It involves the vast majority of the last half of the book so… yeah.

GOAL 2) REVISE SYCU

  • My Goal: 2 Lessons per month/ 1 Lesson every 2 weeks (except L17 and L21, which get 4 weeks min)
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 17, 20 scenes in
  • Where I am: Lesson 17, 16 scenes in
  • On Target or Behind: Behind

How’s It Going:
Bad. I mean, the story’s going great, just.

Oh my god, there’s so much. So much new writing. I literally hit a spot with three new scenes in a row on Thursday, and I had to stop halfway through the second one. And like, I know I did this, I know I added a lot of stuff, it’s just having to actually connect the dots in writing is exhausting. I’m actually adding more new scenes in this one than I did in SKoS, including the stuff I’m adding now in edit.

Thankfully, most of the new scenes are near the beginning, so this should get easier as I go. But I’m definitely adding a fifth week, and maybe even a sixth if I have to. (I also cut a scene, if anyone was wondering about the math.)

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

  • My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
  • Where I planned to be: 25500 words
  • Where I am: 26098 words
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
This week has just been sucky all around, and I realize my word count doesn’t reflect that at all, but the actual writing part here isn’t what I mean. The writing has actually gone rather smoothly. Especially with some help from a friend who works on an ambulance. (Oh yes, I seriously hurt one of my characters. Gotta up the ante, yanno?)

What I mean is, I’m having a horrible time trying to figure out where this story is going. Nothing has come to me and it’s really bumming me out. Or maybe I was bummed before and that’s why I’m having trouble. I don’t know. I’ve just been really off this week and I don’t know why.