October is over... November plans
Nov. 1st, 2020 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenmillionOctober...was a month. I got a week in and hit an absolute wall. I mean, I kind of smelled the burning gears in September, and it was wise of me to re-kajigger my schedule to drop an entire book at that time, but it was pretty much too little too late by that point, and after weepingly editing six chapters of Gryphon of Glass, I realized that maybe I needed a break.
And it was a glorious break.
I played piano and went for walks and took a few hundred photos. I drew some pictures (not a dedicated monthly challenge, just whatever I wanted), and read part of a book for fun, and refused to feel guilty. I was still teacher-mom and cleaner of houses and fixer of things and maker of fires and cooker of food, but it wasn't interspersed with any of my usual self-slave-driving. I did do too much doomsurfing occasionally, but even that I was able to throttle back on.
Towards the end of the month, I got a copyedit done for someone else, wrote five pieces of flash fiction, and started to feel that familiar chomping at the bit to get back to real work.
So...not a lot of progress to report. (I haven't looked at Gryphon of Glass again, so I have no idea if the edits I made at the beginning of the month were even worth anything.)
For November, I have a story due at the end of the month, and I will make that my only priority. It's a 10k minimum, but I suspect it will be a little longer...maybe 15k? I've got about 2k already and I'm aiming at 1-2k a day until it's done, which should leave plenty of time for edits.
Then I will pick up Gryphon again and hammer out the edits. After that, I am either going to go immediately on to Firebird of Glass (if inspired) or switch to The Dragon Prince's Bride, which I am dying to write again. (And I apologize in advance to my characters. #sorrynotsorry)
I have no art goals, no marketing goals, no other writing expectations. If I don't even get to Gryphon of Glass this month, so be it.
What are your plans for the month? Anyone doing NaNoWriMo?
And it was a glorious break.
I played piano and went for walks and took a few hundred photos. I drew some pictures (not a dedicated monthly challenge, just whatever I wanted), and read part of a book for fun, and refused to feel guilty. I was still teacher-mom and cleaner of houses and fixer of things and maker of fires and cooker of food, but it wasn't interspersed with any of my usual self-slave-driving. I did do too much doomsurfing occasionally, but even that I was able to throttle back on.
Towards the end of the month, I got a copyedit done for someone else, wrote five pieces of flash fiction, and started to feel that familiar chomping at the bit to get back to real work.
So...not a lot of progress to report. (I haven't looked at Gryphon of Glass again, so I have no idea if the edits I made at the beginning of the month were even worth anything.)
For November, I have a story due at the end of the month, and I will make that my only priority. It's a 10k minimum, but I suspect it will be a little longer...maybe 15k? I've got about 2k already and I'm aiming at 1-2k a day until it's done, which should leave plenty of time for edits.
Then I will pick up Gryphon again and hammer out the edits. After that, I am either going to go immediately on to Firebird of Glass (if inspired) or switch to The Dragon Prince's Bride, which I am dying to write again. (And I apologize in advance to my characters. #sorrynotsorry)
I have no art goals, no marketing goals, no other writing expectations. If I don't even get to Gryphon of Glass this month, so be it.
What are your plans for the month? Anyone doing NaNoWriMo?
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Date: 2020-11-02 07:15 pm (UTC)I have lots of projects on the go, but just can't settle to doing any of them for more than a day or two at a time. They include:
- editing the fanfic novel on the basis of the beta readers' comments
- editing the short story on the basis of the writing groups' comments
- finishing the jellyfish painting which is half done. And the horse one.
- prepping for a panel I'm on in an online science fiction convention.
- finish watching Vikings season 4
- do a bunch of game prep for the Tribe 8 and Werewolf campaigns I'm running
- reorganise the shelves of games to fit more stuff in
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Date: 2020-11-03 05:27 am (UTC)I'm taking harp lessons, and playing a lot of music in zoom filk circle, and I agreed to do not one but two concerts (via zoom) this month, one at Breezycon (which is the virtual replacement for Windycon) and one for Philcon the next weekend. I have not had much luck making playlists for those, and have finally decided I'll have better luck after the election results are in. That's not necessarily a bad thing--I'll have a better idea of the emotional state of most of my listeners at that point.
I've also been cooking--making chutney and, today, trying a recipe for strawberry-chocolate jam. (The first was prompted by wanting to use the green tomatoes from the garden; the second was prompted by being unable to buy a replacement for the jam I've been using on ice cream. But I did find a recipe!