Well, wow. I've been kind of very productive at the end of last month and that even though I don't have my laptop with me and need to operate from my family's PC whenever they're not hogging it. (I think it's the lack of shiny distractions on their PC?)
My overall writing goal for this year is 80k, and so far I've been doing pretty well. This month my goal is 6k and I'm already 2/3 done. That feels pretty awesome.
The only downside of all this is that my bunnies have been spawning like mad, and I can't decide what to write next (or even which to edit next, because my podficcer-friend wants to record them and I don't want to have them read sentences I think sound stupid when I could have done better.) I have things that *need* to be done, all of which isn't for the fandoms/pairings I am excited for now, and even if I want to get them out asap, I don't really have many ideas, because the people I owe the short manageable stuff say they'd be happy with whatever I come up with and while that's very nice, it doesn't really help me come up with anything.
Moreover, this not-being-able-to-decide thing is why I continue to participate in various challenges. I have a lot of ideas that I don't take seriously enough to write. Either because there would be too much plotting and researching involved, which lazy old me doesn't want to put in, because I both can't and think i shouldn't, not with so many other projects. But sometimes, these challenges I sign up for actually help me get all those half-assed ideas out. Then it's a win. Other times they just *add* to the ideas I have.
Anyway. I have a deadline for one of those half-assed ideas tonight, and I hope I'll make it. Once again I have been procrastinating on it. But only for a day, because it's a weekend challenge and damn, those are pretty awesome for getting shite done (if it's shite you've been meaning to do anyway).
As for lists, I have too many. Especially at times when my muses go on a rampage and spawn little ficlet bunnies everywhere, I get really confused. There are exchange fics with deadline that I don't want to drop out of, there are other things with deadline which I could drop out of, there are the things I owe people that do not have a deadline but which I don't want to postpone for too long (because I have some I've been sitting on almost a year) and then there are WIPs that have their first chapter posted but which I am too afraid to touch again.
Even now, after I've pruned my lists to the essential things (exchange fics, rewards, WIPs, current ideas), it's still at 30 items. Which makes it hard to choose from.
But what I found helps: a simple to-do widget on my phone (yes, I've been finally made to cave about getting a smartphone) in which I only add my exchange fics and those current ideas I think I may be able to write soon. (Or rather, should, before the momentum is gone.)
Sorry for the long post xD Does anyone else have tips on list-keeping they'd like to share?
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Date: 2015-03-08 06:46 am (UTC)My overall writing goal for this year is 80k, and so far I've been doing pretty well. This month my goal is 6k and I'm already 2/3 done. That feels pretty awesome.
The only downside of all this is that my bunnies have been spawning like mad, and I can't decide what to write next (or even which to edit next, because my podficcer-friend wants to record them and I don't want to have them read sentences I think sound stupid when I could have done better.) I have things that *need* to be done, all of which isn't for the fandoms/pairings I am excited for now, and even if I want to get them out asap, I don't really have many ideas, because the people I owe the short manageable stuff say they'd be happy with whatever I come up with and while that's very nice, it doesn't really help me come up with anything.
Moreover, this not-being-able-to-decide thing is why I continue to participate in various challenges. I have a lot of ideas that I don't take seriously enough to write. Either because there would be too much plotting and researching involved, which lazy old me doesn't want to put in, because I both can't and think i shouldn't, not with so many other projects. But sometimes, these challenges I sign up for actually help me get all those half-assed ideas out. Then it's a win. Other times they just *add* to the ideas I have.
Anyway. I have a deadline for one of those half-assed ideas tonight, and I hope I'll make it. Once again I have been procrastinating on it. But only for a day, because it's a weekend challenge and damn, those are pretty awesome for getting shite done (if it's shite you've been meaning to do anyway).
As for lists, I have too many. Especially at times when my muses go on a rampage and spawn little ficlet bunnies everywhere, I get really confused. There are exchange fics with deadline that I don't want to drop out of, there are other things with deadline which I could drop out of, there are the things I owe people that do not have a deadline but which I don't want to postpone for too long (because I have some I've been sitting on almost a year) and then there are WIPs that have their first chapter posted but which I am too afraid to touch again.
Even now, after I've pruned my lists to the essential things (exchange fics, rewards, WIPs, current ideas), it's still at 30 items. Which makes it hard to choose from.
But what I found helps: a simple to-do widget on my phone (yes, I've been finally made to cave about getting a smartphone) in which I only add my exchange fics and those current ideas I think I may be able to write soon. (Or rather, should, before the momentum is gone.)
Sorry for the long post xD Does anyone else have tips on list-keeping they'd like to share?