LilFluff

My goals for this week were:
* Break 100,000 words tracked for the year
* Post some fiction



The thick orange line is my running wordcount, which as can be seen recently crossed 100,000 words. Additionally I just posted, Consequences which is a followup to Just Purrfect.

Goals for this week:
* Post some fic
* Look at more of the amazing stuff all you folks keep posting (I've caught up to February)
* Play with Inkscape some more

Oh! And play some more TIS-100 or Undertale.

I've been pretty silent this April (other than twitter/mastodon/comments on others posts... okay not very silent actually), and that's been due to my participating in Camp Nanowrimo. If you're unfamiliar with it Camp Nanowrimo is a twice yearly event similar to the regular Nanowrimo, only it takes place in April and July. Pick a type of project; pick a wordcount; and go, go, go!

Last night I finally passed 50K (originally I set my goal for 30K, but I was easily keeping pace to hit that so I bumped it up to the traditional Nanowrimo 50K goal), ending at 50,098 words. Which means I got to access the Winner Goodies page.
I'm not sure I'll buy a 2017 Winner button, but I'm thrilled to have reached this goal. The story isn't finished and really I probably should consider what I wrote an exploratory pre-first draft. But wow, 50K in a month. Now I've got some new characters, a new setting, and I'm definitely going to do more with it. But after 50K in a month of Leslie McCormack I'm ready to look at other characters for a bit.

My word of advice for any participating in July or November (or simply taking on a project), push and get ahead early on. When I switched goals about ten days in I didn't do that and remained behind right up until the 30th (especially after getting tied up with other activities on the 29th).

Once more into the goal zone, this week's goal was to reach 35K words on my Camp Nanowrimo project. Well here's my tracking chart:



I have no idea why the yellow line tracking daily words decided to get funny back around the 9th and 10th, but no matter. The green line is the cumulative word count which has indeed crossed 35,000 words. Now to cross 50K by the end of the 30th...

Then take a look at what's written and figure out what's working and what isn't and do lots of revisions. (So very many spell check lines under so many words, so many paragraphs of telling rather than showing, and whatever happened to the ROB that was supposed to be taunting the protagonist?)

*blows dust off the journal*
*coughs*
Hmm, no posts since January? What happened in... Oh, right, January was when I got ludicrously sick. As in didn't even turn on the computer for days and just curled up under the sheets sick. That was decidedly not fun and lasted annoyingly long. And when I came back I went from being mostly up to date on notifications to, "Oh my, that's a lot of notifications." I'd just clear the notifications but gosh darn it you people are posting stuff I actually want to look at.

So you may have seen favs and the occasional comment the last few weeks. And today I actually posted a Biting Pear picture. I am also doing a Camp Nano project this month (target: 30,000 words by months end, currently at 2300), something I'm mainly writing to amuse myself but might end up eventually revising and posting. The short version of it: protagonist Leslie is scolded the night of his thirtieth birthday for living a boring life and if he won't take steps to get out of his rut the Random Omnipotent Being scolding him will. Whereupon fourteen year old Leslie wakes up to her mother scolding her for sleeping in on the morning of her first day of high school and oh that's strange no one including Leslie seems to be human but rather various types of humanoid canines. At 2300 words in Leslie is still convinced that this is just an odd dream and any minute now it will be interrupted by the buzzing of an alarm clock.

So, I might not post much this month, but I do intend to get back to posting the occasional bit of flash/short-fic and continuing the webcomic reviews.