Going for Goals

I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
- Pat Conroy

Here are the goals I set for myself way back in April:

• Plot & outline RS.
• Finish crit of AD for Phoenix.
• Start writing RS - get a chapter done by May 31.
• Work up an estimated word count of RS based on outline.
• May 1-31: write final chapter for the Naked Project on the OWG.
• Finish M’s socks.
• Finish Blood Diamond socks.
• Finish Icarus.

Uh huh. And here’s how I did on them:

• Plot & outline RS. ~ Nope. Did a series of plot points, but not the entire thing, and no outline.
• Finish crit of AD for Phoenix. ~ Partially done. I have a good start on her crit, but it’s by no means finished.
• Start writing RS - get a chapter done by May 31. ~ I decided part-way through the month that I wasn’t going to keep shooting for this goal. Not only was the outline not done, but I decided it was more important to get SS edited again first.
• Work up an estimated word count of RS based on outline. ~ No outline, no word count estimate.
• May 1-31: write final chapter for the Naked Project on the OWG. ~ DONE! Yay!
• Finish M's Socks. ~ Nope. One sock and a third of the other done, maybe.
• Finish Blood Diamond socks. ~ Not yet. But close, and May’s not over yet, either. We’ll see.
• Finish Icarus. ~ No way. But it’s so much fun to work on, and I don’t want to rush the ending.

I hope you all have a great day!