[Check-In]

[kalloway]

No special activities for the week, just a check-in~ Kick back and relax~


This is a check-in post! You do not have to check in if you don't want to and there are no requirements for what you need to check in with. This is your space, so have at!


Feel free to talk about success, frustration, current projects, nagging projects, exciting projects, and everything else going on.


If you have a deadline, you can do it! If you need a deadline, they're available.

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[dialecticdreamer]

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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[st_aurafina]

This is amazing! I love your index card system. And what a word count!

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[dialecticdreamer]

I'm at home during the day, and spend three or more hours writing. The words tend to pile up if I can get focused and stay there, LOL.

The index card system REALLY works better for me than a list. Every morning, I check the "planned" versus "done" cards, then decide what I want or need to work on next. Stories can "jump queue" depending on mood, without feeling guilty about it.

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[kalloway]

Awesome! I totally did the index card thing for a few years, but I outgrew the card box and then misplaced it in a move. ^^;; But I wouldn't mind trying it again, once I don't have giant binder of dooooom notes.

Good luck with everything!