mistressofmuses

I made my September goals post super late in the month, and at the time commented on how it'd feel too soon to do an October one... Welp. Almost exactly a month later, I am very late again!

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( How did September go? )

My goals for October:

• Look into different outlining methods
• Try to come up with a rough plan on how I want to organize the projects I want to work on. (I don't want to outline 16 things before I'm "allowed" to write any of them, so how many do I outline, then how many do I try to do rough drafts of, then do I go back to outlining different projects or do I try to do a rewrite, etc.)
• Look into some sort of progress tracker. TrackBear seems to be well-liked. One of the things that was most helpful and motivating about NaNoWriMo in the past was seeing my progress and how things added up. I'd like to find something to help with that.
• Outline as many things as I can. I'm prioritizing four ideas: An iddy original romance, a different iddy original romance, the Kingdom Hearts "Angels and Demons" AU, and the Kingdom Hearts Worldhopping Fairytale Monstrosity AU.
• (Realistically, I hope to outline the Angels and Demons AU and the first iddy romance.)

Goals for November and beyond:

• For November, I plan to do "Novella November" which is a 30k writing challenge on the month. My intent is to try and get 30k written on the Angels and Demons AU.
• For December, I want to finish up the rough draft of the Angels and Demons AU.
• Outline the Worldhopping Fairytale Monstrosity AU (hopefully in December - January)
• Start on the first draft of the first iddy romance (intended for December - February)
• Outline the second iddy romance (tentatively January)
• Second draft of the Angels and Demons AU (tentatively February - March)
• First draft of one part of the Worldhopping Fairytale Monstrosity AU (tentatively February - March)
• After that, start looking at the next batch of outlines, and go from there.

I recognize that the above is getting very far ahead of myself. It's very probable that a lot of that will take longer than I wish it would; historically I haven't gotten nearly that much done as quickly as I'd have to for the above plan. But I am trying to figure out how I want to bounce around between multiple projects, and this is one possible plan for how to do it. Then again, this whole thing is about trying to give myself flexibility, so that I have things in varying stages of completion, allowing me to do things based on what energy or interest I have or don't. Much as I wish I could, that is the sort of thing I can't plan in advance, haha.