Writing Accountability Post #1
Well, we'll see how long these last. One of the processes I decided upon--not necessarily a New Year's resolution but a musing in my evening journal last night--is that I need to do a weekly checkback with my projected publication and craft schedule for the month to see if I'm on track to finish what I have planned. Part of that checkback is going to be a weekly accountability post. This is as much for me as it is for anyone else. I need the time to clear my mind and think about how I'm working.
Some of this is an attempt to quantify and observe my progress. I may dig out some of my old behavior tracking schedules--where I record what I'm doing at what time and for how long--to see how my behavior changes. I already know that the time of year definitely affects things, because I need daylight to do things with the horse. I also know that I get more fatigued after dark a lot of the time. These posts and the weekly accountability schedule review are a means of tracking what I'm doing, and I may stop doing them once I've internalized some structures (look, as a former special ed teacher, I should be able to apply some of these techniques to me, right? Right?).
With no further blathering, here's what I accomplished in the way of weekly goals:
Writing:
Completed In the Land Where Dragons Grow, the short story for the month.
Did some thinking about The Cost of Power, annotations in chapter outlines.
Did some thinking about Federation Cowboy, enough that I feel comfortable beginning work on it.
Did some brainstorming about the Goddess's Vision series, including a possible worldbuilding short story that I may submit to an anthology call.
Promotion:
Finished writing up an interview.
Made contact with one reviewer for a potential review in April.
Assorted networking.
Appearance on B-Cubed Sunday morning last Sunday.
Editing:
Completed edits for a client.
Completed edits on A Different Life: Now. Always. Forever. so that I can begin production for the February 7th release.
Other Writing:
Sent out three short stories that had come back in December, plus one more that I had missed earlier.
Board meeting minutes for NIWA, took notes at Saturday meeting.
Renewed membership in ALLi.
No craft or sewing work this week.