#2022 writing goals

[sailor-toni]

I wrote 137,342 words in 2022! That averages out to 11,445 words a month and 376 words a day! I hope in 2023 more of it can be published works!

[amtrak12]

Because I'm 15 months into the same WIP, I thought it might be good to actually define some writing goals for myself. Particularly goals that are fully within my control. So, here they are! Gamified because it's more fun that way ;)

The Main Quest Line -- Can We Keep Her (Lucifer fic)

Publish 8069 more words to make Can We Keep Her twice as long as my next longest fic (change the currents of Turn Left @ 76,465 words)

NanoWrimo Challenge (50k words without counting editing/rewrites this year)

Reach the Third Act

Finish the story

Side Quests:

Publish 4 more Lucifer fics to tie my Warehouse 13 works (current totals: 8 and 12 respectively)

Publish 15 more fics of any fandom to hit 100 fics on AO3

Seasons of Drabbles Exchange fall round

Host a "First Comment" event for the Lucifer fandom (goal: to comment on fics that currently have zero comments)

These aren't SMART goals, because I'm not putting deadlines on any of it. But fic shouldn't be held to corporate world standards anyway 😜 At least this gives me controllable stats to focus on.

[aparticularbandit]

Self.

Please remember.

If you have not hit word count this month.

Most (not all) of your writing has been second writing, which means you've been going through a lot of words, just not adding a lot of new words.

Word count is not always an indicator of progress.

You're okay.

[dangaer]

gonna be honest, i think i've refound a lot of my love for writing recently and that makes me very 💓

[planet4546b]

ive been doing nano for almost 10 years and every SINGLE time i go through the month of november in an absolute haze, finish, do not look at my draft literally ever again, completely forget i wrote anything let alone any details, and then months or years reopen it for no reason and go WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS GOOD? HOW IS THIS SO GOOD.

[dallonwrites]

playing with the idea of december always being a set in month break from writing 👍 accidentally done this twice just from burnout or being busy with life and have only written things here or there but both times i’ve found that 1) my ability to brainstorm ideas and scenes is much better without pressure to put anything down and it’s nice to just focus on that intentionally and 2) returning to writing coinciding with the new year feels nice it feels like i can file away anything from the last year i want to and have a fresh start without starting over completely 👍 usually i worry about writing after a break but writing has come so naturally this week and I’m like wow maybe writing is easier and more enjoyable when you have intentional breaks rather than waiting for the break to become a necessity 👍

[dominimoonbeam]

2022

(commissioned art by @slushrottweiler​ and @taelonsamada​ <3 <3 <3)

Had a really nice year and made new friends! I seem to have written 61 fanfics in 2022. That’s definitely a record. The ao3 word count can’t be trusted though because it’s counting whole fics (the bulk of which I wrote last year) just because I posted a chapter this year, but let’s just assume it’s a lot. And I think I’ve killed Quinn at least five times...

I also Published Cosmic Dust this year and wrote Don’t Touch My Stuff and the next sci-fi romance! Edited DTMS and even sent off some query letters before the end of the year.

Goals for 2023:

Query DTMS

Publish DTMS

Publish SU (the sci-fi romance novella)

Finish Scars That Remind

Finish Long Time No See

More Camelopardilliam

More Tattoo AU!

Write another sci-fi romance (it’s already outlined!)

Write another romance (torn between contemporary/mobster and fantasy...)

However your year looks, I hope you’re doing well and that you’re excited for starting another one. This community has really meant a lot to me and I can’t thank you all enough. You’ve been really kind and supportive, and definitely made my year better. <3

[kingsofeverything]

Thank you, Mia @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed for tagging me in your 2023 writing goals post :)

I don’t have a lot of creative goals for this year because my time and energy are going to be spent elsewhere and tbqh I’m already anxious about it. In addition to homeschooling, I’ll have my own schoolwork to do, and I’m also volunteering more. I might be able to crochet at night before bed, but writing requires more of my brain, so I won’t be signing up for any fests. Zero fic deadlines in 2023!

Writing Goals:

Write a fic for @wankersday (already have a title thanks to nic @louandhazaf and an idea) but this one is no pressure. If I don’t write it, it’s no big deal.

Yarn Goals:

Make a blanket for Tonks because she gets cold and none of the blankets we have are the perfect size

Make this lantern blanket for myself — I already have the yarn!

Tagging @louandhazaf @somethingwittyorother @chickenstuffedwithmozzarella @disgruntledkittenface @lululawrence @reminiscingintherain @becomeawendybird @londonfoginacup to share your creative goals for 2023 ✨

[olgalenski]

this is for @captainelliecomb in the @alittleislandoflight exchange

I used your prompt for “arranged marriage at any point during canon” and I hope you like it

also I wanted to post it last year but I kept being stuck on like 5million different things. and then I hated it and then I reread it and loved it again it was wild.

[oceangirl24]

2022 Writing Year in Review

Thanks to @mrsmungus and @kayedium-writes for the tag!

No-pressure tags for: anyone who wants to join in. I have no idea who to tag. lol

Total number of completed works: Completed? Well, I have gotten better at this than before which is nothing short of a miracle.

Three.

I just missed having four by two days.

Total number of WIPs worked on this year: Oh, wow. I have a number of one-shots outlined and partially written, plus my long fic. Let me go count....

Eight. 🙈

WIPs neglected this year: I started two that I felt pressured into writing, so I quit them. I'm waiting until I get a chance to go back and rewrite them the way I want them to be told.

Fandoms I've written in: To quote Cory Matthews: "What are you new here?" Boy Meets World. haha

Total word count: According to AO3 558,276. I'm sure FFN would beg to differ.

Looking back, did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you expected? Much more. It's been a long time since I've been able to sit and focus on writing.

Did you take any writing risks this year? I guess you could call it a risk by taking the popular trope with the popular characters and giving it a good twist.

Do you have any goals for the new year? To get the last chapter of Book II up ASAP. I hope to have Book III close to completion by the end of next year. And I hope to get those one-shots out as well.

Biggest disappointment? Letting someone else influence what I write to the point I can't stand what I'm writing because it's not how I wanted my story to be told. I published one of those. However, I'm leaving all that in 2022.

Biggest surprise? That my OC has been so well received by readers inside and outside of the fandom. Brings tears to my eyes because my girl has been with me for so long.

Most popular story of the year? Autumn in Philadelphia Trilogy overall. For one-shots: Sick Day

What's your own favourite story of the year? I do love Sick Day and the Christmas story. I can't choose. I guess I have to go back to the source: Autumn in Philadelphia: The Return. The others wouldn't be possible without it.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: A Boy and His (Teacher's Motorcyle).

Most fun story to write: Sick Day was so much fun.

Most unintentionally telling story: The Darkest Night. Even though the story centered on Jon, it really was about the anguish I was going through at the time that was worsened a 100x by trying to write what someone one else wanted.

My favourite part of fandom this year: Finding some really amazing friends both inside and outside of my fandom. Within my fandom, I found that one person to talk to about our show and pick a part canon, to bounce ideas off and to talk about life. She's become a very dear friend. Outside of my fandom, I've found writers I really love. They are really amazing. @mrsmungus you're one of them!

[thetragicallynerdy]

end of year writing wrap-up - 2022

Earlier this year I started doing monthly writing goals, along with monthly writing wrap-ups. I fell off in the fall, mainly due to feeling too busy, but I really wanted to do an end of year wrap-up nonetheless! And start again, now that it's the new year - it was a good way for me to remember what I'm working on, and to feel a bit accomplished and note progress even when I felt like I hadn't made any. This list is really entirely for myself, as a record keeping type thing.

On a fun note, this year I got really caught up in OFMD, and wrote a ton for it! Some with pals, some by myself. It's been a really fun new fandom to write for! I haven't written as much for UnDeadwood, which I'm hoping to change a bit this year (but aren't pushing myself on. Where my brain goes it goes).

So, without further ado - all the fics I've worked on this year, including word counts for each (only word counts written this year, based on best estimate, unless otherwise noted):

Completed fics:

but don't you shake alone (Leverage) - Chapters 7, 8, and epilogue posted in 2022. Word count: 15,800

full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes (OFMD). Word count: 10,200

we both go down together (OFDM). Word count: 8,900

and if the pomegranates are in bloom (OFMD). Word count: 5,200

falling for you, you are in love, put your records on (OFMD, same series). Word count: 4,900

the ghost baby (UnDeadwood). Word count: 9,500 (mostly written in 2022, can't remember how much wasn't.)

on this winter's night with you (UnDeadwood). Word count: 9,600.

Works in Progress

Our Flag Means Death

flotsam and jetsam - Word count: 3,000.

i like to call myself wound - Word count: 37,000 (posted: 29, 500.)

and we will build a home from the wreckage - Word count: 17,000 (posted: 8,000.)

ask me anything SMAU (co-written) - Prose word count: 28,000 (posted: 17,000) Written by me: ~14,000

long sad Jim/Ed (co-written) - 94,500 words. Written by me: ~ 48,000.

uposted poly au (to build a home) - Word count: ~7,000

modern Jim/Ed flowershop au - Word count 38,800

sex worker Oluwande - Word count: 12, 300

other WIPs (de-aged Jim, Olu/Jim werewolf smut, hanahaki times, selkie au, etc) - Word count 6,800. UnDeadwood

every bit as feral - Word count total: 73,200. Word count this year: 21,500.

the jaws that bite - Word count total: ~ 35,000. This year: ~ 4,000.

witch clayton au - Word count total: 50,800. This year: ~ 19,000.

the nemesis - Total: 91,500. This year: 7,000 (maybe more, but that for sure).

firefly au - Word count total: 7,000. This year: ~ 3,500 (?)

Other tiny WIPs (olympics, hallowe'en, PS I love you au) - Huge guestimate, but maybe another 5,000 words.

So, to sum up

OFMD: 213,100 words

UnDeadwood: 79,100 words

Leverage: 15,800 words

Total 2022 word count: 308,000 words

Jesus fucking christ??? That's so many words?? I've felt a lot less productive writing-wise this year, but that might be because my 'published ao3' word count for this year is only around 135K - meanwhile I've written around 175K more words that haven't been published yet. Huh.

(This also goes to show that I really, really have a problem with writing sprawling works that I have difficulty actually finishing enough to publish lmao. Glad to see that hasn't changed XD)

Anyway, thanks to everyone who stuck around for the ride - hopefully a few of the massive unpublished works will go up in 2023!!

[surroundedbypearls]

An update on my 2022 writing goals!

As you can see from the above, I managed to achieve the majority of my goals for 2022, which as you can imagine has made me very proud 😎

To summarise:

I made it to copy edits of ‘The Wildfire King’, ‘To Catch the Sea’ and ‘Homebirds’!

I completed my first drafts of my folk shorts collection, ‘Golden Hands and Golden Fingers’ and ‘Closet Pun’ (and made some edits on the latter)

I did some more brainstorming on other future WIPs I have

I will do a full monthly goals post like the above for 2023 soon but to summarise what I want to achieve in 2023:

I want to have finished the proofreading stage of ‘The Wildfire King’, ‘To Catch the Sea’ and ‘Homebirds’ and hopefully have done a round of Beta reading for the first two (so if that’s something you might be interested in, keep an eye out!)

Complete the first draft of the prequel to ‘The Wildfire King’ (currently on chapter 2)

Complete line editing for ‘Golden Hands and Golden Fingers’ and ‘Closet Pun’

Narrow the folk shorts collection and generally make it better lol

Do some outlining/drafting work on some other WIPS

💖💖 Thank you so much to everyone who shared and supported my work this year, I appreciate it so much!! 💖💖

I wouldn’t keep running this blog without you and putting work into the edits, art etc. that I love making on top of writing, so thank you for noticing them. 💗

Until next year~

[klcthebookworm]

2022 My Year In Fic

2022 Fiction Word Count:

478128 / 177267 words. 270% done!

Insights To Not Forget: Narrowing my focus to one WIP per month the whole month before going to another WIP gave me results I am proud of. Proud enough to use this prioritizing against in 2023. Look, I finally managed to cross-post old stories at Ao3, which I have been planning on doing for years, but this is the first year I have managed any headway on doing it.

Stories I Posted at Ao3 Finally:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bloodlines: The Turtles are used to being blamed for the crimes they stop in the Big Apple. But they aren't murderers--despite what Chief Sterns says. And the quest to clear their names is complicated by the arrival of the victim's younger siblings needing protection from the Shredder. Takes place about ten months after the present day parts of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ronin: Three years after Bloodlines, Allie's beginning college coincides with the appearance of a new vigilante on the streets. The Turtles name her the Ronin, but is she really master-less or is her hatred for the Shredder an Oscar-winning performance?

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Family, Friends, and Foes: Val Tech discovers the Turtles and now they're on the run. But things really explode once they reach Chicago. A crossover with Biker Mice From Mars. This story takes place in 1995, one week after Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Reunions and three months after Oroku Nagi's death in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ronin.

Tin Man: Dragons and Ninjas: Five months after the Eclipse, Longcoat attacks and dragon sightings terrorize the population, so DG and her companions set out to save the O.Z. again and cross paths with a Slipper on a mission of his own.

Tin Man: Where Did That Come From: How did Glitch and Cain get to the Sorceress' Tower so quickly?

Tin Man: Don't Know What the Other Hands Are Doing: What happened to Airofday when the Longcoats dragged her away?

Tin Man: Victory Ball: None of this was worth a lousy medal.

A Mist of Prophecies: A Storm of Things Forseen: Queen Titania has a mission for Cassandra that can bring the halfling gargoyle to a clan that will accept what she is. But can Cassandra trust the Queen that destroyed everything she knew?

A Mist of Prophecies: Shivers the Heart to Hear: Every sorcerer's apprentice has to learn not to mix magics. Now is Angela's turn.

A Mist of Prophecies: The Party: A Gargoyles: TimeDancer Fanfic. Brooklyn and Sata find themselves in the future, just in time for the MidSummer's Eve party given by some members of the Manhattan Clan. Members they have never met before. Well, all except one.

A Mist of Prophecies: Regrets: What compelled the trickster Puck to create the role of Owen Burnett? Second place winner in the 2001 Gathering's Writing Contest, Category: Pucking Around.

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Shatter Your Illusions: Limburger is scheming, the Biker Mice are thwarting, and a new player is riding into Chicago--on a Martian bike. What do you believe and who can you trust? This story takes place in 1995, a few months after "Once Upon a Time on Mars." It is the first story in Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare series.

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Put Me Back Together: Now that Throttle has lost Carbine, he feels that he has nothing left. Can Charley help him realize who still cares for him? Or will Limburger's goons confirm Throttle's worst fear? This story takes place in 1995, three weeks after Shatter Your Illusions.

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Reunions: Limburger's latest attempt to kill the Biker Mice results in transporting the bros and Charley to the Olympian Fury, a refugee ship reported destroyed during the Martian-Plutarkian War. But this new hope for the future is dashed by a threat worse than the Plutarkians. This story takes place in 1995, one week after Put Me Back Together.

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Let Us Give Thanks: Sparks wanting to celebrate Thanksgiving sets off a mystery from Charley's past. Can the Biker Mice find the answers? Fifth in the Wars Are Won by Those Who Dare series. This story takes place in November 1995, five months after Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Family, Friends, and Foes.

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Turbo: Turbo arrives in Chicago, and secrets Throttle has kept buried for most of his life now threaten Charley. Sixth in the Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare series. This story takes place in May 1996, six months after Let Us Give Thanks.

Evil Jack: Domestic Bliss: Charley is married to Jack, and they have a four-year-old daughter. But why can't Charley remember anything from the past four years? And why do three bikers keep following her? First in the Evil Jack series. This story is set in 1996.

Evil Jack: In Sickness: Hannah is in the hospital with an unknown disease. How can Throttle save her from that? Sequel to Evil Jack: Domestic Bliss. This story is set in 1997.

Evil Jack: For Worse: Jack returns to Chicago determined to use Charley and Throttle's drunken mistake to destroy the Biker Mice. Third in the Evil Jack series. This story is set in 1997.

Tin Man: Not His Kink: Zero knew her weakness. And he would make her help torture Cain. She wouldn't let herself cry. She had to get Cain out of this. This wasn't his kink.

Stories I Posted:

Nothing new this year. Oops.

Stories I Finished:

Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban: Word count = 61,382 (8093 written in 2019 + 14,789 written in 2020 + 22,252 written in 2021 + 16,248). So it took many more months than I initally planned on, but the first draft was finished on November 19, 2022.

Trigun 3 Outline Word Count = 157,526 (83,769 written in 2021 + 73,757). This is the longest and most detailed outline I have ever created and I finally finished it on October 24, 2022. It is practically a first draft of the future novel, and has the heft of words to be a novel. I don't think I will copy this method in future outlines. I'd rather have the words in something closer to publication. But it might happen again.

Stories I Didn't Finish:

Strix: Forget the Sun: Word count = 51,890 (26,588 written previously + 4279 written in 2019 + 279 written in 2020 + 15,328 written in 2021 + 5416). I had a breakthrough on why this novel is so hard to write: all my characters are separate and doing things by themselves. I had set aside April, June, and November to work only on this novel and could barely work on it in June and November. I'm only planning to give it one month in 2023. And I hope I get more of the characters together so it's not as hard to write.

Trigun: Three of a Kind: Word count = 20,838. I started the novel from Trigun 3 Outline after I finished Mission on Mimban's first draft. While December 2022 was set aside to work on Zackverse projects and I forgot to continue uploading my older works to Ao3, I discovered its website is not playing nicely with IT settings at my paying job which makes it so hard to edit saved drafts. I needed something else to do and this is the story not leaving me alone.

What I Think About My Stories:

My favorite story this year: Judging from how easy the words are coming, Trigun: Three of a Kind.

Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Strix: Forget the Sun.

Most fun story: Trigun: Three of a Kind.

Stories I wrote that I never thought I'd write: Trigun: Three of a Kind.

Hardest story to write: Strix: Forget the Sun. Every word is precious but I really shot myself in the foot separating all the characters like I have. That was real plotting fail.

Biggest disappointment: That it took three months to finish Star Wars: Mission on Mimban's first draft. I thought I'd get more Star Wars projects done this year but not with how long I took on this one story.

Biggest surprise: How well the monthly focus kept me on track with everything.

What's your favorite piece of dialogue you wrote this year? From Trigun: Three of a Kind

And just when he thought he had failed protecting the sandsteamer, failed saving the insurance girls from the hostage situation the other passengers and crew were in, up they popped to stop Brilliant Dynamite Neon from shooting him. Introducing herself with that insurance society’s name and giving herself an outlaw moniker. And she had surprised him again by getting under his duster after the duel while he was distracted trying to encourage Kaite to do the right thing over his transmitters. Vash had reared back and smashed his head against a wall. “I do not paw you!” “Permission granted to paw if I’m bleeding out!” Meryl yelled back.

What's your favorite piece of description or narration you wrote this year? From Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban:

Obi-Wan peeled the one on her stomach free. Charred flesh pulled off the unconscious young woman with it causing the slash to ooze blood. The separation of her tissue didn’t go deep but it looked excruciating. Obi-Wan frowned. Both Luke and Mara were proficient enough with a lightsaber to avoid self-inflicted wounds like this. And Luke would not strike Mara.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would, less, or about what you predicted? For starters, let's subtract the Library totals from my word count of the year. Library total = 346,120. 2022 total words = 478,128. So brand new words = 132,008. That is only 74% of my 2022 goal of 177,267, which is not a disappointment at all! But here's hoping I can get more words next year that equals finished project.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? I don't know if the focus on one thing a month was a risk, but it did help. I got to projects that I have planned to do but never had reached time to work on them because everything else is more important. So eventually I will get backlog done! I think I managed more days of writing than previous years, but I will track this next year to find out.

Number of Days I Wrote or Edited: 311 days.

Number of Days Meeting or Exceeding the daily 600 word count: 113 days.

Did you meet last year's goals? Wow, I am so bad at guessing how much I can get done in any time frame. So very bad. The goals from my 2022 one-page business plan are: Spend one month on a writing project instead of doing the juggling thing. If I finish one early, then I'll figure out what to do next. These projects are going into the Weekly Planner that I look at every day so I don't forget as well as the one-page business plan.

January = Trigun 3 Outline. 29 days only working on Trigun 3 Outline, the beginning of the month was shared with writing 2021 My Year in Fic.

February = Star Wars: Mission on Mimban. 25 days only working on Mission on Mimban. Nothing else grabbed my attention that month.

March = BookWorm's Library Update. My mother had a heart attack and I had dental implant surgery, but I still managed to focus this month on a revamp of my website, which hadn't been updated since 2017. That's how many years updates had fallen off the To Do list. And yes, I had put it on there to do. I probably put it on the My Years in Fic for those years too.

April = Strix: Forget the Sun. 23 days working on this novel. I found a problem in the outlined plot and spent the first week fixing that. Then tried to split my attention between this novel and Trigun 3 Outline by the end of the month.

May = Zackverse Upload to Ao3. Started with the stories in the Zackverse that I have already written and then kept going to everything I have written. Got 11 stories uploaded. Also kept working on Trigun 3 Outline during this month.

June = Strix: Forget the Sun. Only 13 days of the month that I worked on this novel. 27 days were spent working on Trigun 3 Outline.

July = BookWorm's Library Update. This July was a mess. I did work on updates that I didn't get finished in March, but I was rear-ended commuting to work on the 7th, my three nine-week-old void babies made it to my house on the 23rd, then I tested positive for Covid on the 25th and promptly forgot to upload all the updates I had made on the Library files. I also worked on Trigun 3 Outline 27 days.

August = Star Wars. I thought I would be done with Mission on Mimban by this month when I set up this plan last year. I hadn't and then I only spent 16 days on it, compared to 19 days on Trigun 3 Outline.

September = Trigun. Oh look the month I was supposed to work on Trigun and no other projects stole my attention the entire month. 26 days of work on Trigun 3 Outline.

October = Star Wars. I was so close to reaching the end of Trigun 3 Outline I just kept working on it until it was done on the 24th. The last seven days of October were spent on just Mission on Mimban.

November = Strix: Forget the Sun. Since I was so close to the end of Mission on Mimban, I kept going until I finished it on the 19th. Then I picked up Strix: Forget the Sun and finally realized how hard it was writing the character's scene when he was all solo and how I had done that to all the characters in it. I finally reached the end of that scene and then had a plumbing crisis on the 28th - 29th. I started updating Ao3 on the 29th while waiting on plumbers and continued with that, as well as starting Trigun: Three of a Kind on the 30th.

December = Zackverse. I see now that I was supposed to start working on a Zackverse story, but I thought this was just more uploading instead since I still had old stories that need to go up. I could only upload and tweak the stories to Ao3 on the weekends when I was home, so I had to have something else to work on while at the paying job. I continued on with Trigun: Three of a Kind.

See how much I put under each of these categories? The goals from my 2021 one-page business plan are:

Make real progress on the Strix series

April, June, November: Finish Strix: Forget the Sun's first draft = still not finished

April, June, November: Edit Strix: Forget the Sun to second draft

April, June, November: Finish Strix: Forget the Sun's third draft

April, June, November: Send Strix: Forget the Sun to a developmental editor

Progress on Star Wars fanfics

February, August, October: Finish Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban's first draft = finished

February, August, October: Edit Rescue the Farm: Mission on Mimban to second draft

February, August, October: Send Rescue the Farm: Mission on Mimban to beta reader

February, August, October: Finish Rescue the Farm: Mission on Mimban third draft

February, August, October: Edit Sororal Lineality: Miha to second draft = finished

February, August, October: Send Sororal Lineality: Miha to beta reader = finished

February, August, October: Finish Sororal Lineality: Miha third draft

February, August, October: Edit Sororal Lineality: Plans and High Command to second draft

February, August, October: Send Sororal Lineality: Plans and High Command to beta reader

February, August, October: Edit Sororal Lineality: Plans and High Command to third draft

February, August, October: Finish Rescue the Farmboy: Extrication first draft

February, August, October: Finish Sororal Lineality: Kyber first draft

February, August, October: Outline Everybody Lives But Maul story

Writing Trigun

January, September: Finish Trigun 3 Crossover Outline = finished

January, September: Finish Trigun 1 Outline = didn't go back to this one

Writing Zackverse

December: Work on Hyrueliana's overhaul = forgot to do this

Post regularly to Intentionally Left Blank, Dreamwidth, Discipline Under Fire, and Tumblr Random Thoughts = Do once a week = this doesn't happen so I really need to rethink this one

BookWorm's Library website maintenance

March, July: Make sure the software is up to date

March, July: Add any files that need adding = did this once

Add Media Center to BookWorm's Library = this section is now in the Library

March, July: Create section

March, July: Make artwork

March, July: Code section

march, July: Upload files

Add more fanfics to AO3

May: Upload Zackverse in story order = Zackverse what I have finished is uploaded

Upload Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban third draft

Upload Sororal Lineality: Miha third draft after Mission on Mimban

Upload Sororal Lineality: Plans and High Command third draft

Other publishing

March, July: Upload Rescue the Farmboy: Liberation to the Library

March, July: Upload Rescue the Farmboy: One More Service to the Library

March, July: Post Star Wars: Unexpected Consequences to Library = done

March, July: Upload Looking For Home: My Home Is You to the Library = done

March, July: Upload Looking For Home: Outcast to Library = done

March, July Upload Sororal Lineality: MJ-0002 to the Library

March, July: Upload Sororal Lineality: Aftermath to the Library

March, July: Upload Sororal Lineality: Miha

Update FF.net profile of where newer stories are now

My daily writing plans to help the above list of goals get done:

Write 600 daily words. Can be split among stories. = The yearly goal was 177,267 that I reached on March 16, 2022. The Library files are what got me there that quickly.

Write and edit every day. = 311 days out of 365. 85% of the year.

Work in meditation time with Brain FM. = I still need to do more with meditation and the focus music options. My word amounts do go up more when I do use focus.

Use my Kanban Flow checklist consistently. = Oh no, I forgot about the checklists again. I have to do some work that my checklists are too much for one person and find a realistic solution for this.

Don't let chores pile up. = Which is related to the checklist problem I need to solve.

Do you have any goals for the coming year? I'd like to finish up some of the listed drafts so the list looks much more managable after next year. Here's how I'm going to break down 2023:

January = Ao3 Upload / Trigun: Three of Kind since I can't do the uploads at the paying job I'm pretty sure I will have more left to finish

February = BookWorm's Library update

March = Star Wars projects

April = Zackverse projects

May = Biker Mice From Mars projects

June = Trigun: Three of a Kind

July = Ao3 Upload / Trigun: Three of a Kind

August = BookWorm Library's update

September = Star Wars projects

October = Biker Mice From Mars projects

November = Strix: Forget the Sun

December = Trigun: Three of a Kind

This list has more under each category than I will get to in a year, but I didn't want to take a chance of forgetting what to do next. (Where the hell does this fear come from?) The goals from my 2023 one-page business plan are:

Writing Strix series

November: Finish Strix: Forget the Sun's first draft

November: Edit Strix: Forget the Sun to second draft

November: Finish Strix: Forget the Sun's third draft

November: Send Strix: Forget the Sun to a developmental editor

Writing Star Wars fanfics

March, September: Edit Rescue the Farm: Mission on Mimban to second draft

March, September: Send Rescue the Farm: Mission on Mimban to beta reader

March, September: Finish Rescue the Farm: Mission on Mimban third draft

March, September: Finish Sororal Lineality: Miha third draft

March, September: Edit Sororal Lineality: Plans and High Command to second draft

March, September: Send Sororal Lineality: Plans and High Command to beta reader

March, September: Edit Sororal Lineality: Plans and High Command to third draft

March, September: Finish Rescue the Farmboy: Extrication first draft

March, September: Finish Sororal Lineality: Kyber first draft

March, September: Outline Everybody Lives But Maul story

Writing Trigun fanfics

January, June, July, December: Finish Trigun: Three of a Kind first draft

January, June, July, December: Edit Trigun: Three of a Kind to second draft

January, June, July, December: Send Trigun: Three of a Kind to beta

January, June, July, December: Edit Trigun: Three of a Kind to third draft

Writing Zackverse

April: Work on Hyrueliana's overhaul

Writing Biker Mice From Mars fanfics

May, October: Find Wars Are Won series notes and see if stories can be consolidated

May, October: Finish next Wars Are Won story to first draft

May, October: Finish Evil Jack: Till Death Do We Part to first draft

Post regularly to Intentionally Left Blank, Dreamwidth, Discipline Under Fire, and Tumblr Random Thoughts = Do once a month

BookWorm's Library website maintenance

February, August: Make sure the software is up to date

February, August: Add any files that need adding

Add more fanfics to AO3

January, July: Upload twelve already published stories

January, July: Upload Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban third draft

January, July: Upload Sororal Lineality: Miha third draft next

January, July: Upload Sororal Lineality: Plans and High Command third draft after Mission on Mimban

Other publishing

February, August: Upload Rescue the Farmboy: Liberation to the Library

February, August: Upload Rescue the Farmboy: One More Service to the Library

February, August: Upload Sororal Lineality: MJ-0002 to the Library

February, August: Upload Sororal Lineality: Aftermath to the Library

February, August: Upload Sororal Lineality: Miha to the Library

February, August: Upload Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban to the Library

Update FF.net profile of where newer stories are now

My daily writing plans to help the above list of goals get done:

Write 600 daily words. Can be split among stories. The yearly goal is 478,128.

Write and edit every day.

Work in meditation time with Brain FM.

Figure out how to keep the house clean.

Figure out the house remodel.

Here's to 2023. We'll get through all this together.

[galaxythreads]

WRITING GOALS OF DECEMBER (posting this for myself) 

YSFSLWFTCA chpt 13  ✅️

Igniting Fire chpt 7  ✅️

Igniting Fire chpt 8  ✅️

Criminal Minds One-shot Thing  ✅️

YSFSLWFTCA chpt 14 (?) (maybe) 

5 pgs in Spector, Spector

5 pgs in DMBLLIA chpt 3

[snowpetaly]

Writing bank 2022 📝

The year 2022 is coming to an end, so I invite you to a small summary for writers! 🤍 Which of these suggested things did you manage to do?

Share your result! #writingbank2022

[lonelyicycle]

Let's talk homebase

While I pack my bags and ready myself for a flight, I contemplate all the "what-if's" that could happen while I'm out of town. Ultimately though, it doesn't matter. My bills this month are paid, my bills next month will be paid because I have the power and ability to make that happen, as well as putting additional payments on my credit cards this month. I keep feeling like once I get to a manageable position, I can start being able to keep some of my money, but that is just not true.

While it would be nice to keep the money I spend on credit cards and such at the moment, I am grateful to have the money to put towards my credit cards so that I can conquer my debt sooner and chase that idea and reality of financial freedom that I so heavily dream of.

Some of the "what-ifs" that plague my mind currently are "what if I applied my vacation money to my credit cards?" That would be a huge relief in my debt, but it has been over a year since I have actually been on a vacation that was more than a day's drive away. To me, the value of putting that money on my credit card is not worth the value of peace that I will achieve having had this vacation to just relax and unwind.

So, what I do see value in is going to work tonight and Wednesday before I leave so that I can make extra money to put away for January's bills, as well as have some extra money to pay off my credit cards this month.

While I did budget for my vacations, I don't plan to spend it all while I'm gone. Hopefully, I'll be able to come home with at least a couple hundred to spare so that money can be applied elsewhere.

Am I worried that I won't make the money I need to make to actually fully afford these vacations? Absolutely I am, but that's another "what-if" that my mind needs to not weather through. Whatever money comes to me is deserving, and whether one night is good or bad, my monthly average will stay consistent.

With this being said, I have been incredibly embarrassed speaking out about my situation. Partially because of the "how could you be a broke stripper?" stigma. However, I'm not a "broke stripper" even though I'm going through a financially hard time currently. I still make more money than I would at a 9-5 using my degrees, so I'm not in a bad position. I own my house, so I have a lower monthly payment than I would if I was paying rent.

Things are good in my life, whether they are stressful or not. It's like having a birthday cake with sprinkles. I'm just trying to eat all the stress sprinkles off so that I can focus on the cake.