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icarusancalion, and I'm a firm believer in sharing the pain.
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coowipp, the Complete Our Outstanding WIPs Project. Their plan is to finish your WIPs by the end of August. You don't need to have them betaed, you just need your finished first draft done.
My own plan is to break it up into a more definate goal, and shoot for getting 10k words (or, if it's easier to think of this way, a little less then fifteen-hundred words a day) of That Most Lonely Thing done a week, and putting them up here each Sunday (starting next Sunday) so that everyone can see that I did it. If I just say I'll have it done by the end of August I'll never get it done, I'll just start procrastinating before the first week is up because that's not a firm enough goal to keep me on track. Hopefully this one will be, and even if I don't manage finish it I'll be over 80,000 words closer to it (and far off my original plan, which is for around 30,000 words of fic). If I finish it before then I'll move onto one of my other WIP, and keep trying for the same goal.
I know that I have terrible writing habits. I can write quickly if I sit down and make myself do so, I just rarely actually do that. I've heard before that it takes 21 days to make a new habit (which, yeah, is a number someone pulled out of their ass, but I'm ignoring that for the sake of empowerment *grins*), so with any luck by the end of August I'll be in the habit of forcing myself to put out 10k words of fic a week and be able to keep it up.
icarusancalion, and I'm a firm believer in sharing the pain.coowipp, the Complete Our Outstanding WIPs Project. Their plan is to finish your WIPs by the end of August. You don't need to have them betaed, you just need your finished first draft done.My own plan is to break it up into a more definate goal, and shoot for getting 10k words (or, if it's easier to think of this way, a little less then fifteen-hundred words a day) of That Most Lonely Thing done a week, and putting them up here each Sunday (starting next Sunday) so that everyone can see that I did it. If I just say I'll have it done by the end of August I'll never get it done, I'll just start procrastinating before the first week is up because that's not a firm enough goal to keep me on track. Hopefully this one will be, and even if I don't manage finish it I'll be over 80,000 words closer to it (and far off my original plan, which is for around 30,000 words of fic). If I finish it before then I'll move onto one of my other WIP, and keep trying for the same goal.
I know that I have terrible writing habits. I can write quickly if I sit down and make myself do so, I just rarely actually do that. I've heard before that it takes 21 days to make a new habit (which, yeah, is a number someone pulled out of their ass, but I'm ignoring that for the sake of empowerment *grins*), so with any luck by the end of August I'll be in the habit of forcing myself to put out 10k words of fic a week and be able to keep it up.