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Jun. 4th, 2015 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeAnd that, your Honor, was when I realized I had about 26 days left before Camp Nanowrimo started up again and that I should really get my ass moving on prep. Oops. Okay, no, let's make a list of things I have to do, just the things I have to do for the rest of the month and not the things I do daily because if I try to think of that I really will collapse into a heap.
Finish the BACA story
Finish Alex's story (or, heh, write it at all)
Finish The Bedlam
Write the Faery Mead short story at all.
Write the supplemental documents for White Lightning
Outline PS
Write at least 20 thousand words of prep for PS, mostly character noodling
Sketch more kinship charts for PS and related works
Sketch more alliance charts for PS and related works
Make an index of fae houses
Put all of that into a binder for future reference
(And assign a day to regularly update it with fresh printouts, probably Friday again)
And that's just the writing stuff, that's not even touching the mending and knitting I'm working on. Or the stuff I do daily, which, see also not thinking about it or I will fall face forward onto the ground. It's like the story about the caterpillar when someone asked it how it moved all those legs at once. You can't stop to think about it, or you will fall over. If I stop to think about what I'm doing all at once I will fall over, so I'm not thinking about it, keeping many lists, and working on the next thing. I still swear the best thing Courtesan School taught me was freaking time management.
Since there are people now on my feed who may be interested in this sort of thing: So! Every month around the beginning of the month I do a tarot spread to get my head prepared for, here is the coming month, here is stuff to be mindful of, here is stuff to look out for. Now, what you have to understand about me and tarot cards is, well, normally I have many decks. I haven't actually worked with my old Crow's Magick deck recently, so I'm not sure if this was always a thing, but since I switched over to this other deck? Suddenly EVERYTHING IS DRAMA. I'm not even kidding, I'm averaging 2-3 non-Court, non-Major Arcana cards per Celtic Cross spread. If anyone feels like crunching statistics, 7 cards out of 10 are being pulled out of 38 cards of a 78 card deck. This is not statistically likely. Just with rough eyeballing it should be around 4/10 maybe? No. My tarot readings are drama llamas. My favorite so far this year was the one where the first two cards were The Fool and The World, in that order. The outcome card for this month is The High Priestess. So nobody start making me smack you with my Elder cup because I will do it and then it will break and I will be sad.
Anyway. No, I do not know why that deck is So! Damned! Dramatic! I swear to god it throws spreads like I'm a heroine in Charmed or Witches of East End or The Craft or one of those other things.
Oof. I also remembered I need to read the Hugo novels damn quick, and I'm not sure when I'm going to start that. Maybe this weekend? Probably Monday. The good thing is I read really fast. But it's one more thing I need to remember to prioritize, and I haven't been. Must stop that. Still, I did get a bunch of stuff written today. All of my languages are studied. My nails are going to be newly pretty by the end of the evening despite fucking up the application of two stamps. Three stamps if you count the first attempt at lace. That one's difficult and possibly requires the rectangular stamp. Or the softer stamp. I'm still learning though, and I'm doing a pretty damn good job I think.
Time to wrap this up I guess before I get any more distracted and don't go to bed on time. Oh, but for all the new friends (hi new friends! You guys are so sweet and friendly and it's lovely to meet you.) if you want to ask me a question, any question, I don't promise to answer but I'll probably answer most and I won't get upset at a question. Feel free! I may do some get to know me memes later if I find them.
Finish the BACA story
Finish Alex's story (or, heh, write it at all)
Finish The Bedlam
Write the Faery Mead short story at all.
Write the supplemental documents for White Lightning
Outline PS
Write at least 20 thousand words of prep for PS, mostly character noodling
Sketch more kinship charts for PS and related works
Sketch more alliance charts for PS and related works
Make an index of fae houses
Put all of that into a binder for future reference
(And assign a day to regularly update it with fresh printouts, probably Friday again)
And that's just the writing stuff, that's not even touching the mending and knitting I'm working on. Or the stuff I do daily, which, see also not thinking about it or I will fall face forward onto the ground. It's like the story about the caterpillar when someone asked it how it moved all those legs at once. You can't stop to think about it, or you will fall over. If I stop to think about what I'm doing all at once I will fall over, so I'm not thinking about it, keeping many lists, and working on the next thing. I still swear the best thing Courtesan School taught me was freaking time management.
Since there are people now on my feed who may be interested in this sort of thing: So! Every month around the beginning of the month I do a tarot spread to get my head prepared for, here is the coming month, here is stuff to be mindful of, here is stuff to look out for. Now, what you have to understand about me and tarot cards is, well, normally I have many decks. I haven't actually worked with my old Crow's Magick deck recently, so I'm not sure if this was always a thing, but since I switched over to this other deck? Suddenly EVERYTHING IS DRAMA. I'm not even kidding, I'm averaging 2-3 non-Court, non-Major Arcana cards per Celtic Cross spread. If anyone feels like crunching statistics, 7 cards out of 10 are being pulled out of 38 cards of a 78 card deck. This is not statistically likely. Just with rough eyeballing it should be around 4/10 maybe? No. My tarot readings are drama llamas. My favorite so far this year was the one where the first two cards were The Fool and The World, in that order. The outcome card for this month is The High Priestess. So nobody start making me smack you with my Elder cup because I will do it and then it will break and I will be sad.
Anyway. No, I do not know why that deck is So! Damned! Dramatic! I swear to god it throws spreads like I'm a heroine in Charmed or Witches of East End or The Craft or one of those other things.
Oof. I also remembered I need to read the Hugo novels damn quick, and I'm not sure when I'm going to start that. Maybe this weekend? Probably Monday. The good thing is I read really fast. But it's one more thing I need to remember to prioritize, and I haven't been. Must stop that. Still, I did get a bunch of stuff written today. All of my languages are studied. My nails are going to be newly pretty by the end of the evening despite fucking up the application of two stamps. Three stamps if you count the first attempt at lace. That one's difficult and possibly requires the rectangular stamp. Or the softer stamp. I'm still learning though, and I'm doing a pretty damn good job I think.
Time to wrap this up I guess before I get any more distracted and don't go to bed on time. Oh, but for all the new friends (hi new friends! You guys are so sweet and friendly and it's lovely to meet you.) if you want to ask me a question, any question, I don't promise to answer but I'll probably answer most and I won't get upset at a question. Feel free! I may do some get to know me memes later if I find them.
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Date: 2015-06-14 07:28 pm (UTC)I definitely do not have a head for languages beyond acquiring the basics, but am struggling to get a real handle on French (Je suis Canadienne, et le français est très important ici pour emplois certaines) , and sort of dabbling in Japanese here and there (barely maintaining, perhaps?).
That is such an amazing, practical way to address making Actual Changes in your life. And fun too. :D Thank you for taking the time to explain - it seems like a neat way of motivating/examining yourself.
I have gotten big into time-tracking lately, to find out where my hours actually go, because I have so much I want to accomplish. Time management is a thing I'm learning I'm... still needing to work on. :/ Sticking to a schedule and estimating time is tough - but I do think it is work it/helps a lot. I'm just terrible at sticking to my plans most of the time.
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Date: 2015-06-17 01:22 pm (UTC)Y'welcome. :D I'm enjoying it more than I thought Changing My Life For The Better would be when I started. So it's at least working for me. :D
Hey, if it helps, it took me a while to get into the hang of it too. Just, keep trying, keep figuring out what works for you. Don't give up! Here's some Japanese for you.
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Date: 2015-06-18 01:57 am (UTC)