April Wrap Up / May Goals
Apr. 30th, 2021 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firethesound2021 GOALS
2021 Total Wordcount Goal : 22,883 / 100,000
2021 Total Writing Days : 41 / 120
APRIL
It feels like this month went by in a blink, but it was a productive month! The last half of it I managed to write at least 30 minutes every day and it's always amazing how the wordcount stacks up when I actually... make the time to sit down and write. Obvious, yeah, but something I apparently still struggle with XD
April Wrap-Up : I finished the month with 16,652 words which was short of my goal but by less than 400 words and I'm more than willing to round up and call this month a fucking success! Look at all those words!! A total of 1 WIP got new words, with all 16,652 going into 1 HP fic.
MAY
And the goal this month is to keep up this momentum!
May Wordcount Goal : 18k and I rounded up so it's aiming a bit high to keep me on track for reaching 80% by June 7th. Of the ~17k I wrote last month, 12 of it was in the last half when I really buckled down and made writing every day a habit. So I'm pretty optimistic that I'll be able to do this, so long as I keep on task with daily writing.
May Fics to Focus On
☆ HDBB Fic : I'm in kind of a weird place with it. I'm firmly in the this-is-a-garbage-fic-and-I-am-a-garbage-writer phase of things, and I feel like I'm flailing around and just adding words without adding story, and it just feels too big and too scattered and I'm worried the pacing is all wrong, and why even bother with any of it. But then I read back through it and can't really see any of those issues? Anyhow, I've figured out an alpha reader so hopefully getting some feedback will help sort out what's just in my head and what's actually on the page. Looking to make some big progress on it this month and hopefully get a clearer idea of where I need it to end up to tie off subplots/themes/etc.
2021 Total Wordcount Goal : 22,883 / 100,000
2021 Total Writing Days : 41 / 120
APRIL
It feels like this month went by in a blink, but it was a productive month! The last half of it I managed to write at least 30 minutes every day and it's always amazing how the wordcount stacks up when I actually... make the time to sit down and write. Obvious, yeah, but something I apparently still struggle with XD
April Wrap-Up : I finished the month with 16,652 words which was short of my goal but by less than 400 words and I'm more than willing to round up and call this month a fucking success! Look at all those words!! A total of 1 WIP got new words, with all 16,652 going into 1 HP fic.
MAY
And the goal this month is to keep up this momentum!
May Wordcount Goal : 18k and I rounded up so it's aiming a bit high to keep me on track for reaching 80% by June 7th. Of the ~17k I wrote last month, 12 of it was in the last half when I really buckled down and made writing every day a habit. So I'm pretty optimistic that I'll be able to do this, so long as I keep on task with daily writing.
May Fics to Focus On
☆ HDBB Fic : I'm in kind of a weird place with it. I'm firmly in the this-is-a-garbage-fic-and-I-am-a-garbage-writer phase of things, and I feel like I'm flailing around and just adding words without adding story, and it just feels too big and too scattered and I'm worried the pacing is all wrong, and why even bother with any of it. But then I read back through it and can't really see any of those issues? Anyhow, I've figured out an alpha reader so hopefully getting some feedback will help sort out what's just in my head and what's actually on the page. Looking to make some big progress on it this month and hopefully get a clearer idea of where I need it to end up to tie off subplots/themes/etc.
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Date: 2021-05-05 01:00 am (UTC)I appreciate the almost-offer lol and I am happy to keep you in mind if I ever need someone on a future fic? Like 80% of what I need from an alpha is just cheering on and being told that yes what I'm writing is worth reading, keep going. And like, just having someone along for the ride. Writing long fics can be such a lonely process!
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Date: 2021-06-22 05:09 am (UTC)also, I think you mentioned watching The Old Guard??!! I recently watched it and am in love with everything!! I dove right into the fic world and am already so inspired to write for it!! it has everything you could ever want!!!