One Third of the Way Through the Year
Aug. 9th, 2018 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitA reflection on this year's goals:
Goal No 1 - Write all the things
By the end of July I'd written just over 96,000 words since January, and with my target for the end of this month being 100,000, I can afford to take things easy. Which is good because![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
watsons_woes July Writing Prompt was a distinct challenge. I'm really not sure whether I will do it again next year, or whether I will more sensibly go back to just doing the prompts I like rather than determinedly writing every day.
I posted my Lewis Challenge Summer drabbles, The Start of A New Case, which could become the next full fic in the Oxford Tales series.
I also wrote The Many Lives of Lucas North and Adam Carter, a series of drabbles for Ushobwri trope month, one drabble per trope. There are two drabbles which could be expanded on, one is Sentinel/Guide, and the other was an Alternative Universe, which I set at a houseparty at the beginning of the 1920s. The latter appeals greatly and I may well take it as my longer fic (ie 10K+) to write over the autumn and winter (together possibly with the Lewis casefic).
I've signed up again for a Shakespearean exchange (run by a friend) and also The Written Word which is a book fandom exchange.
This month's
whatif_au is characters as animals. There will be rabbits! In the meantime, yesterday I wrote a Sherlock BBC ficlet for cocomment_fic which fitted the subject, so I posted that as well: The Shapeshifter
Goal No 2 - Continue with the art and craft work
The art still isn't progressing as well as I would wish. I drew a chair when we were at Wightwick Manor, but that's about it. Maybe I'll manage to produce something forfan_flashworks Amnesty challenge.
The cross stitch is good though:
Goal No 3 - Do something new each month
Work once again is providing plenty of new things. Yesterday I went with a colleague to visit a summer activity involving music making, and we're going somewhere different every week during August.
However, I'm also going to London for a few days next week (yes, there will be lots of blog posts), so I shall be counting one of the exhibitions as my something new for the month.
In the meantime, have a picture of a moorhen and chicks I took on the way into work this morning:
Goal No 1 - Write all the things
By the end of July I'd written just over 96,000 words since January, and with my target for the end of this month being 100,000, I can afford to take things easy. Which is good because
watsons_woes July Writing Prompt was a distinct challenge. I'm really not sure whether I will do it again next year, or whether I will more sensibly go back to just doing the prompts I like rather than determinedly writing every day.I posted my Lewis Challenge Summer drabbles, The Start of A New Case, which could become the next full fic in the Oxford Tales series.
I also wrote The Many Lives of Lucas North and Adam Carter, a series of drabbles for Ushobwri trope month, one drabble per trope. There are two drabbles which could be expanded on, one is Sentinel/Guide, and the other was an Alternative Universe, which I set at a houseparty at the beginning of the 1920s. The latter appeals greatly and I may well take it as my longer fic (ie 10K+) to write over the autumn and winter (together possibly with the Lewis casefic).
I've signed up again for a Shakespearean exchange (run by a friend) and also The Written Word which is a book fandom exchange.
This month's
whatif_au is characters as animals. There will be rabbits! In the meantime, yesterday I wrote a Sherlock BBC ficlet for cocomment_fic which fitted the subject, so I posted that as well: The ShapeshifterGoal No 2 - Continue with the art and craft work
The art still isn't progressing as well as I would wish. I drew a chair when we were at Wightwick Manor, but that's about it. Maybe I'll manage to produce something for
fan_flashworks Amnesty challenge.The cross stitch is good though:
Goal No 3 - Do something new each month
Work once again is providing plenty of new things. Yesterday I went with a colleague to visit a summer activity involving music making, and we're going somewhere different every week during August.
However, I'm also going to London for a few days next week (yes, there will be lots of blog posts), so I shall be counting one of the exhibitions as my something new for the month.
In the meantime, have a picture of a moorhen and chicks I took on the way into work this morning:
