TMIS
I sat down Sunday evening and worked out the whole Too Many Ideas Syndrome again, and came up with a list.
Holy crap, that list. It's massive. I could be really intimidated, if I let myself.
So I did the second step - a short glimpse of what I have left to do on each thing.
And then I relegated everything but the two things I'm working on to the back burner. Which is a no brainer, for Nano, right?
Right.
And then, inspired by llblckraincloud, I set out a schedule. Yes, a schedule. For December and January.
Basically, it goes like this: December is for finishing Unicorns (2k a day), and finishing Gone (numbers have changed, but will go up to 2k a day when Unicorns is done). When those are done, I will be doing a prompt a day on 50ficlets coed challenge - and I hope (hope hope hope) that the Speed debut will help with that. Even if it doesn't, I hope they debut. But I digress. January (and much of February) will be dedicated to finishing Infinite Space, one prompt a day. I'll continue to post that on Wednesday every week.
Here's the thing. The days the kids aren't in school, I'm not going to write anything. I know it, and I've scheduled it out. That's the last two weeks of December and the first week and a half of January. If I get anything done those days, it'll be over and above, and maybe I'll work on other things then, some of the random ideas that probably shouldn't even get written.
February, then, will be mostly Infinite Space (I think), and anything left on Coed's challenge.
March, then, is seriously editing on Haunted. This has gone on long enough, and I'm DONE. One scene a day or a page a day, I'll see, on that until I've caught up. I might start the Boyfriend Challenge then - I should have a good enough break for it - and I'll be gathering information for Catling, to work on that.
April, serious editing on Wolves in Eden - possibly one month and then some.
There's more, so much more to do, but that will fit into the nooks and crannies, but I WANT Haunted ready to Post by May. I also want Wolves and A Prophet's Wife ready to submit to a publisher by the end of next year.
That's not all the list, but it's the majority of it. I don't know what I'll do over the summer, actually, but I'm not going to worry about it until I get there.
Holy crap, that list. It's massive. I could be really intimidated, if I let myself.
So I did the second step - a short glimpse of what I have left to do on each thing.
And then I relegated everything but the two things I'm working on to the back burner. Which is a no brainer, for Nano, right?
Right.
And then, inspired by llblckraincloud, I set out a schedule. Yes, a schedule. For December and January.
Basically, it goes like this: December is for finishing Unicorns (2k a day), and finishing Gone (numbers have changed, but will go up to 2k a day when Unicorns is done). When those are done, I will be doing a prompt a day on 50ficlets coed challenge - and I hope (hope hope hope) that the Speed debut will help with that. Even if it doesn't, I hope they debut. But I digress. January (and much of February) will be dedicated to finishing Infinite Space, one prompt a day. I'll continue to post that on Wednesday every week.
Here's the thing. The days the kids aren't in school, I'm not going to write anything. I know it, and I've scheduled it out. That's the last two weeks of December and the first week and a half of January. If I get anything done those days, it'll be over and above, and maybe I'll work on other things then, some of the random ideas that probably shouldn't even get written.
February, then, will be mostly Infinite Space (I think), and anything left on Coed's challenge.
March, then, is seriously editing on Haunted. This has gone on long enough, and I'm DONE. One scene a day or a page a day, I'll see, on that until I've caught up. I might start the Boyfriend Challenge then - I should have a good enough break for it - and I'll be gathering information for Catling, to work on that.
April, serious editing on Wolves in Eden - possibly one month and then some.
There's more, so much more to do, but that will fit into the nooks and crannies, but I WANT Haunted ready to Post by May. I also want Wolves and A Prophet's Wife ready to submit to a publisher by the end of next year.
That's not all the list, but it's the majority of it. I don't know what I'll do over the summer, actually, but I'm not going to worry about it until I get there.