Author: meiloslyther

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: Probably stalling
• On Target or Behind: Ehhhhh

How’s It Going:
Ignore me, I don’t know what I’m doing anymore.

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 48000 words
• Where I am: 44052 words
• On Target or Behind: Finished, either way.

How’s It Going:
So I ended up writing the end on Monday. Wasn’t really planning on it, but it feels right.

And on that note…

Happy Halloween!

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: Lost in a sea of keywords
• On Target or Behind: On Target, I guess

How’s It Going:
Still working on it, folks. I’ll get there.

GOAL 2) REVISE SYCU

Complete!

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 46500 words
• Where I am: 43755 words
• On Target or Behind: Behind

How’s It Going:
I probably won’t hit 50k. Again.

I’m trying not to just write “and then I killed them all, the end” and actually write something that seems like a real ending, but. It’s not great.

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: Exhausted
• On Target or Behind: Who’s keeping score?

How’s It Going:
I just need to sleep for like 3 years.

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 21, finished
• Where I am: Lesson 21, finished
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Welp. It’s done. On time. Early, even. But ah…

I’m not thrilled. It started out at just over 50k words. Then again, I wasn’t thrilled by my writing method during first draft either, which probably accounts for the mass of filler and otherwise bad, lazy, or sloppy writing that got cut. Lesson thoroughly learned.

I’m overall not happy with this story. Something about it seems off, like it’s missing something (other than, you know, about 20k words). It’s probably a little heavy-handed, possibly even out-of-line. But I did the thing, and I owe it nothing more. So I’m gonna let it cool off for a while and revisit later.

Will it ever see the light of day? We just don’t know.

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 45000 words
• Where I am: 43050 words
• On Target or Behind: Behind

How’s It Going:

Endings are hard, don’t ask.

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: Not ready
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Welp, it’s my birthday tomorrow. If I had really wanted to, I could have gotten this out before now. But I want to do it right, or at least as close to right as possible. So I’m still doing some research. Keywords are hard. Like, really hard.

But I can say, it will be out soon. I still have another year to reach my goal of publishing before 30, but I’m not gonna wait that long.

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 21, 234 pages in
• Where I am: Lesson 21, 234 pages in
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Going through the motions. One more week to go by my calculations. I’m definitely going to let this sit for a while when I’m done. I’ve made up my mind.

But I have been wondering if maybe I need another set of eyes on it. SKoS had too many eyes on it far too early, and while I managed to save it (thank you past me for saving and keeping old versions), if I could start over and do it differently, I would. This thing? Hasn’t been seen by anyone. Not sure if that may be part of the problem or not.

GOAL 3) SURVIVAL

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 43500 words
• Where I am: 42717 words
• On Target or Behind: Behind

How’s It Going:
Work’s been kinda wild the last two weeks, with my coworker being out sick, so my boss has me working mornings and sometimes all day. And this coming week he’s on vacation, so more mornings and possibly all day Friday. Which has really been throwing me off, and I’ve been prioritizing classwork over my books (because let’s be real, cybersecurity is where I’m going to actually make some money). And really, prioritizing the other two over this one.

So yeah, I’m behind. But I’m so stupid close to the end and otherwise fit to reach my goal that I don’t care.