Written November 1, 2020
It’s important to set goals especially outside of the New Year. The other main reason I’m writing this is that I’m setting everything up for this god-forsaken website and it’s all a wee bit much (no, WordPress, your advice may be useful but that doesn’t mean that I won’t be a stubborn piece of work and “figure it all out on my own”). Everyone, please bear with me.
Such as it is, having let my current work in progress sit out on the counter for a little while, the impeding deadline of having it finished by the end of the year is especially tiresome. I do think I can manage, considering at the time of writing this I’m 42k words into the draft — the bare minimum for a novel is 50k. Just speed through the climax and resolution because that thing should never see the light of day (frankly, it’s embarrassing that it sees the light of the computer screen).
I want to have finished a “polished” novel by the end of my High School career. It may be a little ambitious but I have let myself down a number of times, and this is hardly different.
“I have expectations, not standards.”
– Jay Birb, far too late into the evening
I wish to get better with my editing. Get better, please, I hardly have edited anything at all. And there lies my problem. I think through doing short works, I can get a better idea of what the editing process is like. Short work editing and novel editing are differing beasts from differing lands, however, they still are technically the same species.
I want to get better at writing short stories and opinion pieces, hence, this glorious little tangle of words and code.
Alrighty, friends, lets see if this thing works. I mean, it works but does it work? Damn the English language.
J. V. Montague 