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2021 GOALS

2021 Total Wordcount Goal : 4081 / 100,000

2021 Total Writing Days : 7 / 120


JANUARY
As always, we kicked off January with the best of intentions and--as usual--fell well short of them. I misjudged just how stressful this month was going to be and then my anxiety was high and I'm trying to finish up some non-writing stuff and... yep.

January Wrap-Up : I finished the month with 4081 words which was short of my goal, but seeing it with the total days I actually did writing... isn't too bad? At least it gives me hope that if I can get back into the habit of regular writing, I can make up the wordage I lost this month. A total of 3 WIPs got new words, with all 4081 going into 3 HP fics.

I also have 1 completed fic! I finished off the next part of Don't Think Twice, I just haven't yet edited it so it's still unposted. But, finished!! :D

FEBRUARY
Really need to get back into the habit of regular writing. Towards the end of 2020 when I was working on my Erised fic, I got into a really good rhythm of sitting down for 1-2 sprints in the evening, and I want to get that going again.

February Wordcount Goal : 10k and we'll see if I have any better luck with it this month than I did last month or if I'm still aiming too high. At the very least I'm going to aim for more days with writing than last month, which I hope will be half the battle.

February Fics to Focus On
HDBB Fic : I need to give this a reread.

There Is Always the Moon : I've finished my first reread on this, and now need to do some light edits because, wow, typos. And then I need to sit down and start hammering out an outline for what I'm going to do to the final chapter(s). I don't usually bother with outlines, but I think that for this one I need to because there's a lot going on with it and it'll help me keep track of what's happened and what needs to happen etc etc. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get through this relatively quickly, but sometimes rewriting something can be harder than just writing it from the start, so we'll see how it goes once I actually get into it.

Stay : I need to reread the earlier parts to refresh my memory on the details, finish up edits, get it beta-ed, and post it.
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2021 GOALS

2021 Total Wordcount Goal : 0 / 100,000

2021 Total Writing Days : 0 / 120


DECEMBER
December is always a bit of a slow month for me, and this was certainly no different. Still, after so long of not writing anything I'm just pleased I was able to keep my momentum going at all!

December Wrap-Up : I finished the month with 3275 words which is actually a bit higher than I usually do during the month of December? Most of them were even on the thing I meant to be writing, though sadly I didn't end up finishing it, as I would have liked to by the end of the year. A total of 3 WIPs got new words, with 1928 going into 2 HP fics and 1347 going into a fic for The Old Guard.


JANUARY
My writing time has been pretty consistent recently, and I've signed up for [community profile] harrydracobang so I've got a project to really dig into, so I'm optimistic!

January Wordcount Goal : 10k and that's a bit ahead of what I need to average to keep on track for my yearly goal of 100k, but not so far ahead of it that it's unreasonable, I think.

January Fics to Focus On
HDBB Fic : I'm using one of my (many, many) WIPs for this, which I luckily have not talked about in any sort of detail whatsoever. In the interest of maintaining anonymity, I'm not going to say how much of it I've got written and will only be counting newly written words on it. (And as my WIPs range in wordcount from 31 words to 87k, I figure that tallying my newly written words won't be much of a giveaway lol)

There Is Always the Moon : I wrote this for Remix back in 2016 and just found out that the fic it's based off has been taken down. I deliberately wrote this to function as a companion, so with the original gone it's no longer complete. The first 12 chapters are more of a prequel, so it's just the last chapter that will need to be rewritten for it to stand on its own. My goal this month is to firstly reread it so it's fresh in my brain, and then to dig out my notes on it because at one point I did have a full ending plotted out and I'm really really really hoping I wrote it down before I changed my mind about it. ::crosses fingers::

☆ Lastly, I need to sort through the WIP Folder of Doom and pick out my First Quarter fic. Maybe I ought to stick with Pride Goeth, as that's what I've got at least some momentum built up on? But with the unexpected return of Always the Moon to WIP status, I feel like maybe I ought to pick something much shorter. I've got a handful of mostly-written PWPs kicking around that are a much lower wordcount investment than Pride Goeth, which still has something like 8-10k left on it... or maybe I ought to just count my rewrites as my First Quarter fic? I'd love to have it done by then, but that feels like it's maybe overly optimistic. Either way, I'm hoping to have a better idea by the end of the month.

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