Lists and I are enemies. Too many colors of ink, too many changes of topic, and I start to feel my brain itch. A "list" of unfinished or wanted fics was definitely NOT going to work.
Instead, I put each unfinished story on an index card. (Save about an inch on the right short edge for categorizing.) To do items needed for the blog go on blue slips of paper the same size.
This week, I cracked into my second pack of one hundred index cards for the list. I've found ONE duplicated story idea.
I also wrote, as of bedtime last night, 57,195 words.
So far, I'm averaging two cards into the finished stack for every five new cards that I add.
The index box is a whopping three weeks old, barely, but it's WORKING.
I'm having trouble with strong endings, which I need, desperately to practice, and I'm having trouble alternating between two projects in the same day. I URGENTLY need to get a handle on that problem, because my goal for this year is to learn how to set things up to publish on Amazon.
I have three goals for this year: - Write half a million words. (The GetYourWordsOut group is a tremendous help for that!) - Clean up the blog elements and update the indexes to fiction which have gotten lost in the sea of medical emergencies from last year and the year before. This means learning more HTML and making fewer mistakes. - PUBLISH on Amazon. I'm not ready to talk about the specific project, but one key problem is that I have to ALSO wrangle finishing it while working on shorter stories for the blog.
Thanks for the link to Trello, earlier. That's something I need to look into very, very closely!
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Date: 2018-02-21 06:29 pm (UTC)Instead, I put each unfinished story on an index card. (Save about an inch on the right short edge for categorizing.) To do items needed for the blog go on blue slips of paper the same size.
This week, I cracked into my second pack of one hundred index cards for the list. I've found ONE duplicated story idea.
I also wrote, as of bedtime last night, 57,195 words.
So far, I'm averaging two cards into the finished stack for every five new cards that I add.
The index box is a whopping three weeks old, barely, but it's WORKING.
I'm having trouble with strong endings, which I need, desperately to practice, and I'm having trouble alternating between two projects in the same day. I URGENTLY need to get a handle on that problem, because my goal for this year is to learn how to set things up to publish on Amazon.
I have three goals for this year:
- Write half a million words. (The GetYourWordsOut group is a tremendous help for that!)
- Clean up the blog elements and update the indexes to fiction which have gotten lost in the sea of medical emergencies from last year and the year before. This means learning more HTML and making fewer mistakes.
- PUBLISH on Amazon. I'm not ready to talk about the specific project, but one key problem is that I have to ALSO wrangle finishing it while working on shorter stories for the blog.
Thanks for the link to Trello, earlier. That's something I need to look into very, very closely!