Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Feel Free to Ignore This Post About Word Counts and Shit

Another month has flown by and despite discovering the joy of twitter - @LeeReynoldson - I managed to write 15,645 words this month. About 500 a day on average. Which is not bad, but not brilliant. However, there's a lot of other stuff that needs to get done like editing and learning to format, make eCovers, etc. and none of that got done. Here's my 2012 goals . . .

Writing Goals 2012
  1. One Short Story a Month.
  2. 1st Draft of 50k novella.
  3. Finish Ashcan edition of Redwald.
  4. Finish draft of one of my other WIP's.
  5. Practise and Learn (the Craft)
  6. Read More.

Non-writing Writing To Do List
  1. Learn HTML.
  2. Learn Kindle/mobi. formatting.
  3. Learn to use Kindle Gen.
  4. Learn to use GIMP
  5. Learn to tie a hangman's knot.
Yay for dry technical manuals, tutorials, complex coding, and buggy software! Joy untold.

Non-Writing Writing To Do List That Isn't As Dire as the First but is Equally Poorly Named
  1. Finish Grail Seeker notes and add to Scrivener.
  2. Add Grail Seeker character bio's to Scrivener.
  3. Block scenes for Grail Seeker.
  4. Edit Dungeon Bastards issue 1 script.
  5. Pulp Plot plan for Jan short story.
  6. Next Tables for Fables/Lester Dent Pulp post.
  7. Brainstorm for Redwald shorts and novels.
  8. Brainstorm ideas for 25 para Fighting Fantasy fan adventure.
  9. Brainstorm ideas for Tunnels & Trolls mini-solo.

Well lets see . . .

List 1: I failed to write  short story in Jan, but at least made a start on one. Most of my 15k words was towards WIP number 4 and that's chugging away well enough. Got a bit more work on Redwald done, did a little practice of the craft, and didn't read that much. Not bad.

List 2: Nothing from this list. Must try harder.

List 3: Nothing from this one either.

Okay so for Feb I want to . . .

Write 20,000 and up my daily average to about 700
Finish a short story
Start on HTML
Edit Dungeon Bastards script
Notes for March short story
Push on with Grail seeker

2 comments:

David said...

Hey, Lee. A man's gotta have goals. I know a few things about GIMP, so if I can be of any assistance let me know. I'm self-taught, so I might not know the most efficient ways of doing something, but I might be able to at least point you to some tutorials. Were you wanting to do something specific, like cartography, or just seeking general expertise? It is a fun program, whatever you do with it.

1 February 2012 12:50
Lee Reynoldson said...

My favourite writing quote isn't a writing quote . . .

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Pablo Picasso

I'm hoping to use GIMP to knock up some slightly better eBook covers than the ones I've made on PowerPoint. Also, I have Hexgimp and it would be nice to be able to make decent maps as I can't draw. Mostly the eBooks though. I've found a couple of GIMP tutorial just not got around to trying them yet.

At the moment first priority is .mobi formatting so I need to get my head around HTML and Kindle Gen before if even think about GIMP.

1 February 2012 16:30

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