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2021 GOALS

2021 Total Wordcount Goal : 4780 / 100,000

2021 Total Writing Days : 11 / 120


FEBRUARY
So, back on January 1--which honestly feels like a million years ago by now--I started off the year with a small kitchen fire (no casualties other than my non-stick pan, thankfully) and I joked that it was hard not to take that as a sign for how the rest of the year would go. AND BOY HAS IT. It's just been one thing after another, and they've all been pretty stressful and upsetting in the moment, but so far (::knocks vigorously on wood::) they've all ended up all right. Like, this weekend my car got broken into. Which freaks me out because it was parked all the way behind my house and not visible from the street and the idea of someone lurking around my house very much creeps me out. But it was about the gentlest break in possible; Mr FTS had left it unlocked, and the thief only made off with about $3 in loose change because I don't keep anything valuable in it after the previous time it was broken into at our last apartment. And like, I'd be willing to write it off as someone desperate, godspeed good sir, I genuinely hope that the handful of change you took helps you out. But this absolute asshole left my fucking lights on, which there is absolutely no goddamn reason for and luckily Mr FTS went out there around 6am so it had been a short enough time that the battery wasn't dead. If this had happened literally any other day of the week we wouldn't have gone out there until the afternoon at the earliest, or more likely not for a couple of days, at which point it very well would have been dead and THAT is what I'm most upset about, because it really feels like a bit of a "fuck you" for not having much of anything in there worth taking.

ANYHOW. Life's been one thing after another like that, and I haven't been writing much as a result.

February Wrap-Up : I finished the month with 699 words which was WELL short of my goal, and the only thing that's giving me hope of coming anywhere near my goal for the year is the sheer lack of hours I've been putting into writing lately. Only four days this month had writing and none of them were lengthy sessions. A total of 3 WIPs got new words, with all 699 going into 3 HP fics.

MARCH
And the goal this month is once again to get back into the habit of regular writing sessions. We're going to ease back into it with a re-read of my HDBB fic, and then hopefully start making words on that. I'm aiming for 30 minutes per night, the toughest part of which is making myself actually sit down to do it.

March Wordcount Goal : 3k and I'm aiming pretty low because I'm anticipating the first chunk of the month will be rereading and going over beta notes from the last time I was working on this thing.

March Fics to Focus On
☆ HDBB Fic : I need to give this a reread and ideally come up with a loose outline for what needs doing to finish it off

☆ 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.

☆ You Send Me 2 : which I actually pulled out and poked at a little bit after a couple of very nice comments on the first one. This is basically a smutty little coda about Harry getting un-de-aged that I don't think should run me more than a few k (though, famous last words...)

Only one of those last two is going to get done, to meet my yearly goal of finishing and posting one fic per quarter, and whether either of them gets done at all will depend on how HDBB comes along because I WILL finish my reread of it before touching anything else.