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Dec. 1st, 2014 02:39 pmOh dear god Nanowrimo's over. I might start checking in more actively now that I'm not writing two things and editing one regularly on top of a day job. When oh when can I be a self-supporting writer?
Crickets chirp.
My brain is going twenty miles a minute right now, but everything I want to do is stuff I need to be at home to do. Like copy over my online course notes. Or study languages. Well, no, I suppose I could do that at work on my iSis, but still. I'm restless, I want to do twenty things at once, I shouldn't/can't. This is aggravating in the extreme. More aggravating because I can't do the things I should be doing so as to get to the things I want to be doing, because my brain is stuck in the mud of "But I wanna do this instead." Shut up brain. You are being the least helpful right now.
It's December. Why the hell is it December. (Because Nanowrimo's over, you twit.) When the hell did it get to be December. Come to that, when the hell did it get to be so close to the start of oursixth year of Courtesan school? Courtesanship? Do you ever graduate courtesan school or do you just cycle back around to... something. I don't know. I'm going to go with our sixth year of courtesanship. And, really, what the hell. When did this happen? Seven? Seriously? We're magic!
(I can, for the uninformed, expound on the purpose and nature of Courtesan School if you want, but at this point I think I've babbled about it to pretty much everyone who will read.)
At some point I do need to make a post outlining goals for next year. Things I want to learn from online courses, which languages I'm going to study, which is probably going to be Japanese, Latin, and Dothraki. We'll see if any of my family is crazy enough to get me the Greek books. Speaking of books, books I want to finish and publish. Including dime novels. I might try to get to reading 100 books again next year. I don't think I'm going to make it this year, although you never know. Actually... okay, it looks like my original goal was to read 25, I'm about to hit 50 books, so, that's not so bad. 100 books next year it should be. Wow, though. I did not publish 10 dime novels. Mostly because this past year was the year of suck and hate. I am now, however, out of grandparents I adore, so can we please have a moratorium on relative and dear friend of the family death for the next, say, five years? Please. I'm not saying you should store it all up, just can we please get a fucking break.
I might actually start working on that post soon. Just a basic outline of shit I did, shit I want to do. It looks like I killed on the intake stuff, reading books, keeping up languages. The output of writing, not so much. Well, so. That was last year. This is this year.
... I want to go home so I can take all the notes and read all the information. Waaah.
Checking in part: Yes, I did my Japanese, I left my Russian book at home so I have not yet done that, but I will get it done. I'd also like to get the cat pans changed out, but I don't know if that'll happen. There's a list of things on my HabitRPG. A lot of them are orange. Some are red. The to-dos, anyway.
Oh! And one thing I'm also doing next year is reviving my Word Count Spreadsheet. Which means I'll probably set a goal for the words I want to write in a year, and check in here every week with how many words I've done, and how close I am to the goal total, etc. If you want to join me, I have copies. In many formats. Give me a lazy day and I might be able to translate it into pages for the screenwriters among us. This started out back when LiveJournal was still a thing I did on the Find Your Words community, but they don't seem to have put up a signup post for 2014. So I might as well do it here. Or I might make a community. Should I make a community? Argh, decisions.
Crickets chirp.
My brain is going twenty miles a minute right now, but everything I want to do is stuff I need to be at home to do. Like copy over my online course notes. Or study languages. Well, no, I suppose I could do that at work on my iSis, but still. I'm restless, I want to do twenty things at once, I shouldn't/can't. This is aggravating in the extreme. More aggravating because I can't do the things I should be doing so as to get to the things I want to be doing, because my brain is stuck in the mud of "But I wanna do this instead." Shut up brain. You are being the least helpful right now.
It's December. Why the hell is it December. (Because Nanowrimo's over, you twit.) When the hell did it get to be December. Come to that, when the hell did it get to be so close to the start of our
(I can, for the uninformed, expound on the purpose and nature of Courtesan School if you want, but at this point I think I've babbled about it to pretty much everyone who will read.)
At some point I do need to make a post outlining goals for next year. Things I want to learn from online courses, which languages I'm going to study, which is probably going to be Japanese, Latin, and Dothraki. We'll see if any of my family is crazy enough to get me the Greek books. Speaking of books, books I want to finish and publish. Including dime novels. I might try to get to reading 100 books again next year. I don't think I'm going to make it this year, although you never know. Actually... okay, it looks like my original goal was to read 25, I'm about to hit 50 books, so, that's not so bad. 100 books next year it should be. Wow, though. I did not publish 10 dime novels. Mostly because this past year was the year of suck and hate. I am now, however, out of grandparents I adore, so can we please have a moratorium on relative and dear friend of the family death for the next, say, five years? Please. I'm not saying you should store it all up, just can we please get a fucking break.
I might actually start working on that post soon. Just a basic outline of shit I did, shit I want to do. It looks like I killed on the intake stuff, reading books, keeping up languages. The output of writing, not so much. Well, so. That was last year. This is this year.
... I want to go home so I can take all the notes and read all the information. Waaah.
Checking in part: Yes, I did my Japanese, I left my Russian book at home so I have not yet done that, but I will get it done. I'd also like to get the cat pans changed out, but I don't know if that'll happen. There's a list of things on my HabitRPG. A lot of them are orange. Some are red. The to-dos, anyway.
Oh! And one thing I'm also doing next year is reviving my Word Count Spreadsheet. Which means I'll probably set a goal for the words I want to write in a year, and check in here every week with how many words I've done, and how close I am to the goal total, etc. If you want to join me, I have copies. In many formats. Give me a lazy day and I might be able to translate it into pages for the screenwriters among us. This started out back when LiveJournal was still a thing I did on the Find Your Words community, but they don't seem to have put up a signup post for 2014. So I might as well do it here. Or I might make a community. Should I make a community? Argh, decisions.