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cunning as a weevil ([personal profile] firethesound) wrote2025-12-01 01:29 pm
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November Wrap-Up / December Goals

2025 GOALS

2025 Total Wordcount Goal : 78,583 / 100,000

2025 Total Writing Days : 100 / 365


NOVEMBER
I was expecting October to be the rough month and then November was supposed to be an easy glide to the end of the year, and somehow. SOMEHOW. That was not the case. Mostly due to being sick four times in four weeks, most recently with influenza A. I have not had the flu since 2017 and it was every bit as miserable as I remembered it being. I feel like I am only just beginning to crawl out from the crushing exhaustion that comes along with it. Ugh. Get your flu shots, y'all.

November Wrap-Up : I finished the month with 9,835 words which is fantastic considering everything else that's been going on. A total of 7 WIPs got words, with all words going into 7 Old Guard fics. I did not meet my goal of 20k.

DECEMBER
My biggest goal is just to get back into a writing routine again. I was doing really good at being consistent, and then last month I pretty much fell apart. I would love to get something small finished and posted, but I think that I need to just focus on the longer ones this month instead of getting sidetracked.

December Wordcount Goal : 15k and I still feel like this is going to be a little bit of a stretch, considering all the usual holiday madness that comes along with the month of December. But let's see how it goes! This will leave me a little bit short of my updated wordcount goal for the year, but I already met my original goal of 50k, so I'm all right with it.

December Fics to Focus On
food truck au : and I know I'm not going to finish it this month, but I'd like to get through the next chapter at least, ideally the next two chapters. The next one ramps up the pining, the one after that has the confession of feels and the actual getting together, and that one's already mostly-written so should go fast if I can get through the next one. There's one conversation in particular that's holding me up. Estimated wordcount, 70k.

horrorguard : Aiming to get this on finished and posted in early January, which is comfortably ahead of when the collection closes in February. I've done some work on this one, wordcount got bumped up just a smidge, but thankfully I have the whole story sketched out by now and it didn't spiral. I've got bits and pieces written from beginning to end, and now it's just a matter of filling in the gaps. Estimated wordcount, 15k.
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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_news2025-11-30 02:42 am

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

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