Write every day! - January 2020 - Day 1

[zwei_hexen]

Welcome old hands and newcomers alike to a brand-new year, hopefully also with a generous dose of new writing motivation and energy!
Please don't hesitate to ask sylvanwitch or ysilme any questions you have.

Personally, I'm not one for new year resolutions, but to me it always feels like everything is resetting to zero at the start of the year, revealing new energy and opening up new opportunities. Of course, that doesn't negate the issues, problems and worries we can't just leave behind, or which we are confronted anew, so let's make the best out of what we've got, and, as far as writing goes, stick together for another round of mutual support and encouragement! :o) 

If you like, let us know about your goals for the new writing year or the month, look back on your last writing year, or whatever else you'd like to share!

(Ysilme)

Tally for January 2020:
Welcome Post

Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: 2019 has bee a quite good writing year for me, despite the fact that I didn't post much, and nearly managed to not post a single fan/transformative fic at all, were it not for a last-minute pinch hit yet to be revealed. I'm quite happy that I exceeded last year's writing goal by far, as far as word-count goes, and despite the lack of finished works made a decent inroad in working at WIPs, organising, plotting and planning particularly on several longer (and older) projects. I also wrote and published my usual original Christmas story project contribution and already got lovely feedback for it, started to blog a bit more regularly again (with the intention to do this really regularly), and
participated at and won my 7th NaNo (and have been so frustrated about the site's changes that I'm considering not doing it any more because of it). But 2019 also holds a major writing event for me: in November, I had a major plot- and world-building epiphany for my fantasy novel which had been stagnating for a while as I couldn't figure out some basic issues. Most of what I wrote so far will be discarded, including the main characters I'd already developed (although I might recycle these charas at some point), and since then I'm working at the world-building and character development, and doing a lot of research. Now it finally feels like a story complex enough to fill a book-long tale, unlike before. ;o) 
My main goal in 2020 is working at the novel (working title: Tales of the Northlands), working more at some WIPs and posting at least some of them, and right now in January writing my contribution for the My Slashy Valentine challenge which is due on Feburary 7th. I got a cool assignment with a subject I'm really looking forward to write about, but also no requests at all for plot, which leaves me a bit in the lurch as coming up with plot ideas is one of my weaknesses. *g*
Edit to add: I wrote about 900 words today, all non-fic.

sylvanwitch here:  My annual goal for inkingitout is 150K words again.  That will be some combination of original and fanfiction.  My immediate goal for the month of January is to send out at least two original short stories (I sent one just under the wire yesterday).  I also need to review the "ambush project" (an original time travel lesbian romance novel) to see what's left to do; I was on the third draft when I lost motivation back in the fall.  And I suppose I should revisit the lesbian space opera and figure out if its salvageable.  It's time to get serious again about trying to get published.  Otherwise, I hope to have fun playing in my usual fandoms and perhaps one or two new ones (I'm looking at you Witcher).  Today, I added 1239 to a Bond/Q fic I've been working on for more than two weeks, finishing the first draft.  Yay!

Comments

[auroracloud]

Oops, I nearly forgot to check in, I was so darn sleep deprived yesterday! Anyway, happy New Year to you both! I feel the same as ysilme that I don't do New Year's Resolutions, but the beginning of a new year still invites the sense of starting anew, looking ahead, thinking about my goals and evaluating how I do things.

I've decided not to sign up for anything word-count oriented this year, I'll just keep checking in here and have my own qualitative goals, which have to do with specific things I want to write. In January, I want to finish at least one of the two short original short stories I started last month - both are science fiction with f/f, I call one solarpunk though it's not very punk yet, and the other might qualify more generally as futuristic hopepunk - and send one or both onward. Otherwise, I hope to work on my more long-term writing goals. There is the historical novel I've been working on since last July, though I feel like it could use another break and some time to figure out what I'm doing with it. I'm thinking I could use some of January specifically for that, rather than push on writing it, but we'll see how things work out. I also have my so-called ambush project, which started as just something little to write when I was in Ireland in August, and has kind of blown up since then. It's also lesbian science-fiction, and I'm winging the world and the plot as I go, and it wants to be longer than short fiction. I'd love to do a little more on that again as well.

I'm planning to sign up for Chocolate Box, and it would be nice to get my assignment written already in January. I've also signed up for a femslashficlets prompt table where the prompts are queer women's literature quotes, and I'd like to get started on them.

Anyway, on the 1st I worked a bit on the more advanced of the two short stories, the solarpunk one. I also wrote down some ideas for the femslash prompt table!

[sylvanwitch]

I like your goals; they feel focused to me, like you know where you're going and are looking forward to the journey getting there. :-) Yay! As always, let us know if you need anything from us (e.g. *hugs*, butt-kicking, baby animal pictures :-) to help make that journey easier for you.

Also, yay for words! I hope you keep the momentum going!