My ROW80 check-in:
For all my proclamations about what I planned to do with my outlining and writing, etc., and how I had a plan to not be overcome by the end-of-year, holiday season slackerness that often hits me…I’m slacking a bit. So this week I set a goal to just read through the rest of K.M. Weiland’s Outlining Your Novel Workbook without doing any of the exercises, making notes, etc. Just read it through to help myself get a general vision of my book. Hopefully next week I’ll be reporting that I got that done and am actually back into doing the outlining.
I am still playing with the Bullet Journal technique, making notes and getting a good feel for the system so I can translate it into a novel-planning system. I have to say, the more I look at this stuff the more excited I get by all the possibilities. I haven’t even started officially using it yet, and I’m already a huge fan.
And now the just-for-fun stuff:
Reading: On to the third book in Seanan McGuire’s InCryptic series, Half-Off Ragnarok, where we get to meet one of the Price boys, Alex. I’m having lots of fun with this one and really hope Shelby is going to be sticking around.
Watching: Marvel marathon! So far, in the eleven years since we started planning our own Thanksgiving weekend viewing marathons (before that I just went with what was on Sci-Fy/SyFy), this one was my favorite. We watched all of the Marvel (not animated) movies plus all of the Marvel One Shot short films inserted in the appropriate places. For a great list of the movies, the short films, and the TV episodes in order, check out this list from MarvelTV.org.
Listening: I’m still catching up on the StoryWonk Sunday podcasts. Appropriately enough, I am on “Episode 97: Every Part of the Pig.“ It’s about superheroes and there’s lots of talk about the Marvel universe.
For the coming week, I’m going to keep reading and then working through the outlining book, and I’m going to gather the best posts, etc. about Bullet Journal to share. And there will be more Seanan McGuire in there, because I’m on a kick now. What do you have planned for the week?
The Marvel Marathon sounds like absolute heaven! I’m totally with you on the whole slacker thing – I can’t seem to catch up on anything! I’ve never heard of Bullet Journal and am definitely going to be checking that out, so thanks for sharing 🙂
Melissa, the marathon was the best! My favorite we’ve every put together.
As for the slacking…I really find that I get more done if I have a clearer idea of *what* I want to do, the actual details and steps of it. So lists and things like that really help me get back on track (well, except for this week–I think I have holiday brain!).