A Long Way

Can you believe that Camp is open for registration already?

I set up the cabin and declared a project “to be determined” since I have absolutely no clue what I’m going to be doing for my July project. (I’m outlining for November, but for July? Um, yeah. No idea.)

My goal for Camp is 31K, but I’m not sure if that’s going to be on the Elven Bard novel or something else.  I can’t really decide on that until I see how this month goes. If I finish the scene I started working on for Onyx Sun I’ll work on the Elven Bard novel, if not, I’ll finish it and then get back to work on the new novel.

Meanwhile, I think I might change my modus operandi, mostly because I’ve been an idiot.

You know those goals I set for myself each month and then fail miserably at meeting?  Well yesterday, Curiouser Editing, LLC, posted something on Face Book that made me stop and think.

I know better, I do. One of my mantras is “Look at what you did, not at what you didn’t do.”  The trouble is, I only seem to apply it to things like house work and decluttering, which is why I said I’ve been an idiot. Of course I should apply it to other things too – like my writing.

So, (as of yesterday) I’ve started keeping a journal listing the things I do do regarding writing, not just the things I want to do. Yesterday I managed to schedule my Wednesday Words, Rainbow Snippet, and Sunday Snippet posts for the month. And I set up a “holding” project for Camp and got the cabin opened and named. (In case you’re curious, it’s YaGottaWanna)

I still need to keep the overall goals in mind, but I think that shifting the focus to what I am doing instead of everything that I need to do is going to help.

With luck, at the end of the month I’ll be able to look back and say, “Wow, I’ve come a long way!” instead of “I have a long way to go.”