December Plan Update (Part 1)

I finished my Christmas story for the Cafe, and I've made most of the tweaks to Towers of Kansas. I should be able to finish up incorporating beta reader feedback today.

However, it's going to take me more than a day to make it through the line edit, especially since a few of the dev edits I made will require tweaks throughout for consistency.

So I need to adjust my schedule a bit. It was optimistic at the outset, considering it's me and it's December, and I can go from great to awful in the space of a day.

A half NaNo is more realistic. I will aim for 25k instead of 35k, especially since I'm not adding a ton of words in this edit (and may even take some away).

Also, I'm going to have to drop a project. I probably won't work on Once We Were Witches. I may poke at an outline for it if I need a break, but since I'm behind a week, I need give up one of my projects. Witches is a low priority right now. It was a NaNo novel and NaNo is over. There may come a time when I work on it again, but I need to get back on track as far as my original goals for this year.

Which means once I'm done my line edit of book two, I will probably poke at Sally Prescott for a week or two. I know that actually finishing an adventure is optimistic, but it is possible to write 15k words in two weeks. That's 1,070ish words a day, which is along the lines of what I'm consistently capable of.

Now, if I get stuck or get bored, that's when Witches might get some attention, but any words added to it will be bonus.

And when I'm either finished the adventure or hit a done-for-now with SP, I will switch over to Scions of Mythos. I really would like to get 10k more words on it before the year is gone, and if I can start that early, there's a greater likelihood of actually getting those words, what with the holiday and possible depression.

So yeah. Doing five projects in December was a bit nuts. I'm still doing four, if you count my Cafe story, but at least that's only one project a week. That makes infinitely more sense.

I may check back in next week for an update on my progress (or other changes in plans). Hey, I do my fitness blog every week to keep accountable. Surely there's nothing wrong with checking in every week on my writing blog to keep me accountable!