Haven’t updated for about ten days now, so I thought I’d throw this up there. Assuming the same goals for last week as the week before that, I’d say I managed pretty good. I got my writing done, and I managed to throw some general creativity in there, too.

So that’s good.

But not good enough. I need to step up my writing goals if I want to actually get somewhere with this project. So far all I’ve got is background info, and I feel like there’s a lot more ground to cover in that area. World-building. That’s a dangerous path for me. Easy to get stuck and just focus on the setting, while forgetting the other parts that make up a story. The setting is obviously important, perhaps more so in a fantasy story than in a more realistic work, but no novel gets far without characters or plot. No one wants to buy an encyclopedia covering a made-up world. Well, maybe they do, but not from an unpublished author.

So, anywho. That’s something that will need to happen. I have just enough of the world figured out that I should be able to start writing something at least. There’s a lot more to map here, but most of that can come later.

GOAL #1: Write at least 500 words of actual story, and at least 500 words of world-building and/or character description and/or plot synopsis. This won’t be enough if I expect to ever finish this project and start writing a new book, but hey: Baby steps, people. Baby steps.

I also have another post in the works. A little thing I made, well, a damn good while ago actually, that I thought I might update a little, tweak just a tad, and subject you all to, my dear, dear readers.

Thus we have GOAL #2: Put up that, uh, thing. It’s not that easily classified, to be honest. It’s a silly thing, and I thought it fairly amusing at the time. Still do, I suppose.

Well. Take care now. Do something good.