Thursday, December 23, 2010

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

Surely that makes some semblance of sense. Christmas Eve is tomorrow, which is the day before Christmas, so it's Christmas Eve Eve today. Anyway, I had actual content today, at least a little bit... oh yeah! I managed to tear myself away from Minecraft enough to get my BFS goals sorted out. Here we go, in order of when they're to be accomplished.

  • Participate in NaBloPoMo (January)
  • Take the ACT again (February 12th)
  • Finish Fictionpress story (February 25th)
  • Finish Latin Course (March 11th)
  • Edit Crystal Frontier (May 25th)
  • Complete Italian course (March 13th - August 11th)
  • Write/Translate a story in/into Ganyi. Say, at least 5,000 words? (October 31st)
  • Participate in NaNoWriMo (November)

There. That gives me all of December off for relaxation and finals, since I imagine I'll be in college then. That's why the majority of these goals are before school would start. I can only cram so much into those months though, so I've got my Ganyi goal just to be finished before November. November is November, after all.

I should probably explain and quantify these goals. NaBloPoMo will be not quite daily. I'll take Sundays off, but I'll plan to post every other day of the week. The ACT is the ACT, but my goal is to get a better math score, since I now know at least something of Trigonometric Functions. That Fictionpress story just needs finishing, and I'd like it to be done by March, which is NaNoEdMo. I plan to start editing Crystal Frontier then, and I just figured I'd give myself extra time for that.

Wow, the school year's not even quite done for me yet. I'm a little tired of not finishing things, so my latin course will be done before school's out, and then I start my new Italian book, which I would like finished by the time I start college, wherever that happens to be. It probably won't start until after the 11th, right? They already start sickeningly early. Anyway! short summer for me.

My Ganyi goal may be put off for a while, and/or just take a long time. It doesn't have to be long, just 5,000 words, but it's in a different language, and one I'm making up, no less. That doesn't particularly make things easier.

November is NaNoWriMo. This is an invariable law of the universe. I will participate in NaNoWriMo, and then I will pass out, wake up, and most likely begin studying for finals. Thus the empty December.

Just because I want to rehash everything, my month-by-month schedule looks like this:

January: NaBloPoMo, Latin, Fictionpress, School
February: ACT, Latin, Fictionpress, School
March: Crystal Frontier, Latin, Italian, School
May: Crystal Frontier, Italian, School
June: Italian
July: Italian, probably at least start on the Ganyi thing
August: Italian, Ganyi, College
September: Ganyi, College, plotting?
October: Ganyi, College, Plotting
November: NaNoWriMo, College
December: Finals


Ok then! June is empty. That'll probably be when any summer noveling gets done.

Uhm, that's probably enough for now, yeah?

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Hmm... It's December...

Which means I suppose it's time to think about Big Fun Scary Goals. Unfortunately, a year is kind of a vague deadline to finish these things, so I may take a more structured approach. Brainstorming stuff, then. For today's post, we'll start with the stuff I'd like to get done:


  • Work Italian into an actual conversational language for myself
  • Begin work on Swahili
  • Get Ganyi somewhat functional
  • Finish editing Crystal Frontier
  • Maybe get a little bit of a plot on paper for yet another draft of Crystal Glare?
  • Participate in NaBloPoMo (I'm thinking January for this? Maybe a little modified to take Sundays off)
  • Take the ACT and get a better score
  • Find a college
  • Start college
  • Finish that one Yavn story I've been putting on Fictionpress and get the whole thing on there. That means editing the dang thing too.
  • Get another summer novel written, I suppose
  • Of course win NaNoWriMo.
  • Wait, maybe make that help make sure my mom wins NaNoWriMo this year, whether I do or not.
  • So maybe I should make that "finish NaNoWriMo in a week or two so my mom can have the rest of the month to write her brains out."
  • Ouch. 50,000 words in a week.
  • Oh, and I wouldn't mind actually finishing my Latin course either. It's helpful for language learning and making, I've found. Stupid cases and tenses and conjugations.

Hm, lots of bullets xD anyway, somebody remind me next week or something to get these into monthly schedules or something. I was thinking maybe finishing my Italian and Latin courses by September, and when school starts I start Swahili, under the careful tutorship of my parents and maybe a few more books. Ganyi perhaps should be put into the actionable goal of a novel or so many stories written in the language.

Speaking of! I need to do another worldbuilding novel for another country. I think it's going to be a nomadic people, and their language is gonna be an isolating one. I should learn Mandarin for research on that, I guess.