The (Near) Future!
Dec. 2nd, 2010 06:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoI failed NaNoWriMo in spectacular fashion. This would be okay if I had produced something of equal value during the same time. Sadly, this is not the case.
I wrote 2 short stories and one story fragment. I wrote a review of Graceling. I worked on that board game design that really seems like it might be playable and fun. I designed some Magic: the Gathering mechanics and cards. I painted an octopus wearing a helmet and holding a sword.
Okay, that last thing was pretty cool. And I'm glad to be getting closer to printing up another prototype for my board game. But considering that I was really going to try to be productive last month, I can say with total honesty that I consider November to be an epic failure for which I have no excuses whatsoever.
This makes me sad, but it also makes me freaking angry. So I'm going to try to cut back on my escapism and time thrown away into the internet. Sure, it's not NaNoWriMo anymore, but that doesn't mean I can't try to make sure I write something every day. And if I don't write something then I'd damn well better paint something, or make a few more card mockups for the board game. So whatever I get done isn't always going to go up here, but sometimes it might - I will attempt to tag and cut tag things so as to a good LJ Citizen.
So December will be the great experiment. It's the sort of thing that I think a lot of people would put off and make their New Year's Resolution, but I hate those things. "I know, I'll try to change my life in fundamental ways! But not until the new year, because artificial markers in time are a good excuse to put it off for a while." Heck, I feel bad enough that I didn't make a firmer decision about this sometime in November.
I wrote 2 short stories and one story fragment. I wrote a review of Graceling. I worked on that board game design that really seems like it might be playable and fun. I designed some Magic: the Gathering mechanics and cards. I painted an octopus wearing a helmet and holding a sword.
Okay, that last thing was pretty cool. And I'm glad to be getting closer to printing up another prototype for my board game. But considering that I was really going to try to be productive last month, I can say with total honesty that I consider November to be an epic failure for which I have no excuses whatsoever.
This makes me sad, but it also makes me freaking angry. So I'm going to try to cut back on my escapism and time thrown away into the internet. Sure, it's not NaNoWriMo anymore, but that doesn't mean I can't try to make sure I write something every day. And if I don't write something then I'd damn well better paint something, or make a few more card mockups for the board game. So whatever I get done isn't always going to go up here, but sometimes it might - I will attempt to tag and cut tag things so as to a good LJ Citizen.
So December will be the great experiment. It's the sort of thing that I think a lot of people would put off and make their New Year's Resolution, but I hate those things. "I know, I'll try to change my life in fundamental ways! But not until the new year, because artificial markers in time are a good excuse to put it off for a while." Heck, I feel bad enough that I didn't make a firmer decision about this sometime in November.
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Date: 2010-12-02 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-02 11:19 pm (UTC)The plan is to try to cut back on stupid things so that my pieces of time are larger and worth spending on art/writing. But even if all I have are short spans of time I'm going to try to get something done in them anyway, and see if I can train myself to get into that mindset more easily.