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January Writing Wrap Up
Feb. 1st, 2025 01:19 pmThe short version is that editing takes me longer than I think it will. I am pretty confident that as the year goes on I will get faster at it. I spend too much time poking at things when I really need to open a separate document and just rewrite instead of making in-line edits.
* I posted 2 fics, each just over 2k. Not bad. I got work done on other projects, but they aren't done so I can't count them.
* For my original writing, not as far along as I'd hope to be. But, not bothered because I did put in a lot of hours. It's not for lack of productivity, it's because stuff just takes time.
Thing is, I am on a specific schedule to get this done, but I don't know what that schedule is yet. As I said, this is the project I started when my writing laptop died and I didn't have my new one yet. So, my mental desk was cleared of all other projects for a while. I just started writing, and decided to commit to this project. Because I was writing around the holidays, it being that time of year is a major part of the plot. It's hot a holiday book, but it needs to come out around the time one would. Since I've never published before, I don't know how much lead time I need. When I was still on FB, I was in a 'gay men reading gay books' group with a lot of authors and some of them finished holiday books as late as November, but they have established editors, workflow, etc. I intend to work with an editor, but it's too early to be looking into getting one, so I am flying a bit blind. I am trying to think of June as my deadline.
Problem is, even if I could find those posts and chat with those authors who talked about holiday deadlines, it's on facebook, or was. It's pretty much dissolved now and FB has become unusable for me. So, a resource I would have had is gone.
I do have a notebook where I am recording info that comes my way about publishing. I have, for example, names of cover artists I like. I am just letting into accumulate in that book so I don't need to mentally keep track of it. I do have a better grasp of a lot of things I need to know, but whole editor thing is just a big unknown right now. Right now I just need to keep pushing on.
So, while I didn't get as much actual writing done as I'd hoped, I did get work done on the non-writing stuff I also need to do. I am not upset at my writing amount because this other stuff I got done is also work
* I posted 2 fics, each just over 2k. Not bad. I got work done on other projects, but they aren't done so I can't count them.
* For my original writing, not as far along as I'd hope to be. But, not bothered because I did put in a lot of hours. It's not for lack of productivity, it's because stuff just takes time.
Thing is, I am on a specific schedule to get this done, but I don't know what that schedule is yet. As I said, this is the project I started when my writing laptop died and I didn't have my new one yet. So, my mental desk was cleared of all other projects for a while. I just started writing, and decided to commit to this project. Because I was writing around the holidays, it being that time of year is a major part of the plot. It's hot a holiday book, but it needs to come out around the time one would. Since I've never published before, I don't know how much lead time I need. When I was still on FB, I was in a 'gay men reading gay books' group with a lot of authors and some of them finished holiday books as late as November, but they have established editors, workflow, etc. I intend to work with an editor, but it's too early to be looking into getting one, so I am flying a bit blind. I am trying to think of June as my deadline.
Problem is, even if I could find those posts and chat with those authors who talked about holiday deadlines, it's on facebook, or was. It's pretty much dissolved now and FB has become unusable for me. So, a resource I would have had is gone.
I do have a notebook where I am recording info that comes my way about publishing. I have, for example, names of cover artists I like. I am just letting into accumulate in that book so I don't need to mentally keep track of it. I do have a better grasp of a lot of things I need to know, but whole editor thing is just a big unknown right now. Right now I just need to keep pushing on.
So, while I didn't get as much actual writing done as I'd hoped, I did get work done on the non-writing stuff I also need to do. I am not upset at my writing amount because this other stuff I got done is also work
