LifeLog #5

Hello, and happy Valentine’s day to all. Whether you have a significant other or not, I hope the day’s been good for you.

So, this week I have come to the consensus that as much as love my piece, Realm of the Demon Empress, shit’s gotta change. Starting with the name. It’s working title will not be Amilia, named after the main character and I feel like it suits it more. And secondly, with the outline.

It’s been a few months since I last touched it and looking over it, and thinking about the story and coming up with some new ideas, this outline is rather outdated. So, for this month instead of starting to write the story, I’m going to be focusing on reworking/completely rewriting the outline.

A lot of it is still going to stay. But I just have way too many better ideas I want so desperately to use them all. So, out with the old and in with the new, right?

That’s what I’m thinking anyway.

I think it’s going to be interesting though because I’ve never reworked an outline like this before. I’ve of course edited and changed many an outline, six drafts in anyone? But just never once I was set on it, and never after this amount of time has passed.

So, that’s what I’m planning to get working on.

What are your plans for the coming week? How was your week previously? Are you having/did you have a good Valentine’s day? If not, think about all that discount chocolate tomorrow. Mmm.

Anyway, that’s all I got for you today. I hope it’s been a wonderful day for you. And if not, I hope it gets better. You deserve it.

And I will see you next time.

-T.R. Flynn.

2020 Goals

Happy New Year everyone!

I hope this year will be good for us all. But we shall see.

So, seeing as it is the first day of the new year, we all know what that means! New year resolutions are being thrown around left, right, and centre. And I’m no different. I’m getting on this bandwagon and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop me.

So, what are my goals for the new year? Well, let’s get into that.

1. Firstly if you haven’t seen my update post about what I”m going to be doing with TftPR and WftGK, I’ll link that HERE for you to check out, otherwise, this won’t make sense. I want to finish the edits for War for the Good King(which I think is the working title I’m going to keep referring to it by), get it all clean and polished and ready to be torn apart by beta readers. Which brings me to my next point.
2. I want to get WftGK put through at least one round of beta readers this year. If possible I’d like to get it through two and start querying by the end of the year, beginning of next year, but we’ll see.
3. I want to get serious edits with the anthology done. I have several things I need to reconsider as it is, so this will need some serious work. I’m hoping to get at least a good chunk done this year.
4. I would like to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve never done it before, I’ve heard things from people who swear by it and from people who think it’s ridiculous. But, I don’t have any personal opinions on it just yet, so I want to try it myself. I’m not quite sure which project I want to work on for it yet, but I’ll figure that out, probably come summer.
5. Now, if I do end up doing NaNoWriMo, and not having a break down like I did last year, I would like to do daily updates on here about my progress and my word count thus far. Why? Because I’m a masochist, that’s why.
6. One of the bigger projects I’ve been planning out last year and one I’m super excited about is something I’m calling ‘Side Quest’ for right now. I have it mostly figured out, but I’m trying some new things in terms of world-building, figuring out characters, and even my outlining. So, for this year I want to get my character creation and world-building done. If I can also get it outlined that would be amazing, but I’m not going to hold myself to just yet.
7. This is a heavy outlining year for me because I have another project I’m super excited for, and that I really want to get outlined as well. This one, because the working title I have it under gives a little too much away, I’m just going to call project ‘death’. I’m sure everyone has a death project in the works somewhere. So, I want to get that outlined as well if I can.
8. I would like to enter at least one writing contest this year. Last year writing contests just did not happen at all for me, so, I’m gonna give it another shot with something much more manageable than before.
9. Once again we venture back into my mind and wonder just what the hell I’m thinking because I have another giant project that I want to get outlined and get a proper working title for because right now the best I got for it is ‘Steampunk 4’… I will give you a minute to get over how ridiculous that sounds… We good now? Cool. You understand where I’m coming from. Now, this project is much more in the preplanning phase than it is the outlining phase, so I’d like to get it completely planned out and the outlining at least started before the end of the year.
10. I got Realm of the Demon Empress outlined last year. This year I would really like to get the rough draft written. Whether or not this is the project I’m going to use for NaNoWriMo, I don’t know just yet. But I can say fairly confidently, probably not.
11. Now, this one might sound a little bit insane, and that’s okay. I got my start/love of writing from writing fanfiction. I stopped writing it when I decided I was going to start getting serious about my actual writing and focus all my energy on that. But I loved writing fanfiction, and I want to get back into it. So, this year I wanna pull the dust off my old blog and go back to posting on that. It’s not going to be every week like I had posted before, but at least once a month I’d like to aim for.
12. Just like last year, I want to try and read at least 25 books. I’m sure I can do it.
13. This goal doesn’t have anything to do with writing, but I want to take up bullet journaling. I’ve seen them everywhere last year and I really want to get into it. And what better time than the new year?

So, that’s all I have for you today. What are some of your goals for the new year? I’d love to know if you’d like to share.

I hope you are having a wonderful new year, and if your day isn’t going well I hope it gets better. And I will see you next time.

-T.R. Flynn.