Current writing challenges/exchanges stuff!

[auroracloud]

Good luck to anyone starting NaNoWriMo today! I'm not doing it, but I signed up for mini_wrimo to write at least 100 words each day during November. (You can set the word count you want to sign up for; 100 words is the minimum. The sign-ups are on until November 10 if you're interested.) I've lately been able to break through my post-CampNaNo slump with my novel by writing at least 100 words of it every day, no matter what else I write. I decided to use the community to help me stick to this practice for all of November. 100 words is such a low word count that it's not much pressure to at least do that, and that seems to be the key for me - and most of the time it turns into more, anyway.

I'm working on my Yuletide sign-up. The sign-ups still go on for a few more days, check yuletide_admin for the schedule and other info. I'm contemplating whether I'm going to do all my requests in 2010s awesome diverse scifi books fandoms, or if I'll include a historical/old book fandom or two. But this is the first year I could do all of the sign-up in 2010s awesome diverse scifi books, because I've actually read and finished enough series I super much want to read fic for. The ones I'm thinking of requesting are The Imperial Radch series, This Is How You Lose the Time War, the Machineries of Empire series and my old staple, the Wayfarers series (where I have so much trouble narrowing down which characters!). There's also other great stuff in the tag set, like A Memory Called Empire, the Murderbot novellas, and my currently-reading book Empress of Forever. And that's just the 2010s awesome diverse scifi I know! Let's not even get into the other books, the podcasts, the historical RPF (I could request Mary Anning!! I kind of want to, but I have to think about how many requests I want to have).

Also, Write Every Day is hosted by silveradept in November!

Okay, I'm too tired to continue, so that's all for tonight!

Comments

[ysilme]

I'm happy to hear that your 100-word-rule works so well for you! :o) Joining that challenge to help you with this sounds like a good idea to me. I'm also going to do something similar to stick to major projects from now on - I'm usually allowing me to write other things if I'm stuck with the major project or have energy or other issues, but lately, that has brought me off the major project far too often.

[auroracloud]

I had such promising experiences with it this week that I'm very happy with that approach. It fits with what I'm starting to learn about how I operate, anyway. Better to have small, easy goals that don't make it too difficult to start.

I'm usually allowing me to write other things if I'm stuck with the major project or have energy or other issues, but lately, that has brought me off the major project far too often.

Yeah, that's kinda what's been happening for me. I've been having a harder time with the novel after I passed the 30K mark and the well-outlined part of it, so I find it too easy and tempting to switch to new projects. But this way, I don't have to abandon the new projects, while I still make sure I focus on this one. :-)