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Personal Goal
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#41:up: :up:
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#42Day #2:
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Lady Delores Briggs
The Flight of Retribution
Children of Glass
Chromids
Machine Intelligence of the Cosmic Era
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#43Day #3:
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Lady Evica
Halan Of Gimirrai
The Church of the Exquisite Blade
The Friends
Goblet Of Sin
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#45Day #5 (the last):
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Pra'Eimus, the Grand Archer
Ko Girls
Progressive Stiletto
Daughters of the Slug
Vauraki
Goal accomplished. I'm going to take a little break but I will have another goal soon. I'm ready to get back to writing again. -
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#46New goal: Questor 4-Pack
And now for something completely different.
I have proven to myself that I can write daily when I set my mind to it. And while it feels good to get things done and posted in a short timeframe, I want to improve the quality of my work. With that in mind, I set the following challenge for myself:
I will produce 4 subs, each for a different quest that I have not yet entered. I give myself 5 days per sub: 2 for drafting, 1 for a cooling-off period, and 2 more for additions and edits before posting.
The following are the due dates:
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Wednesday 9/4
Monday 9/9
Saturday 9/14
Thursday 9/19
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#47Good luck, Moon! You should try to make the quests line up with guild quests where possible!
After that, if you want a different take again on personal goals, have us give you some keywords or themes that you have to adhere to for your next subs!
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#48I debated whether or not to post progress updates here. I decided to do so, at least to keep myself honest (with myself, of course :P ) No skipping writing days.
Attached is my first stab at a sub for the Zombies (the apocalyptic kind) quest: Zombie Servants of the Ch'thra. It is not yet complete. Tomorrow I finish the first draft. -
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#49Getting into the swing of things with the completion of the first draft. -
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#50:yourock: :victory2:
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#51First set of edits, though most of them are minor. After taking a day off from it I can see a number of areas that could use improvement, notes for which I have added. Tomorrow will be a day for filling in all those extra details. -
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#52Second set of edits completed. I ran out of time before I could put in everything that I wanted, but it's still far more complete than my original draft. I may add a few details in later as ideas.
I present the Zombie Servants of the Ch'thra.
(Just for fun, I am attaching the raw file of the final draft.) -
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#53Moon, I am reading your zombie servants sub; but ittle take me a while :p im doing it in instalments. So far it sounds cool! A whole new zombie apocalypse. -
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Moon, I am reading your zombie servants sub; but ittle take me a while :p im doing it in instalments. So far it sounds cool! A whole new zombie apocalypse.
One must always be ready for another zombie apocalypse :)
A little sleep-deprived, but I have the beginnings of an entry for the 20,000 feet under the Sea quest: Refuge Beneath the Waves.
So far it is mostly just a rough outline with the tiniest bit of narrative. Zombie Servants of the Ch'thra kind of grew organically and had become a bit unwieldy. With this one I'm making a better effort at being organized from the beginning. Subs are a lot easier to manage when they're 1,000 words or less :)
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#55Made some headway, though not as much as I'd like. Time to let it go for a day before I come back and finish it on Sunday and Monday. -
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#56Made a few tweaks, but otherwise didn't get much done. That means I have only tomorrow to finish it. -
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#57Done: Refuge Beneath the Waves -
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#59Day 2 of Winter's Gem. It's flowing a bit better than the last one. Time to let it sit for a day and then come back to it. -
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#60More of Winter's Gem. One more day to post. -
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#61Winter's Gem is complete. -
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#62Starting work on Travvak, Planet of the Trallong. It will be finished on the 19th and will complete my latest personal goal (probably my last for awhile.) So far I just have the basic outline with some of the beginning sections.
Many thanks to Chaosmark for helping me get this off the ground. -
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#63Only a few minor additions made to Travvak, mostly to fill out the rough outline. That gives me Wednesday and Thursday to finish it up. -
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#64And with only 2 days left, I missed my mark. Even so, I'm pretty happy with how well I did. Having an explicitly stated goal has made me far more productive and helped me push myself much further than I had before. However, I'm going to retire this thread for the foreseeable future. It's been a great training wheels type of tool for me but now I'd like to see how I fare when making goals in a less public way.
I very much appreciate all of the encouragement, helpful ideas, and feedback which I have received during this time. -
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#65Awesome job Mystic. I have been meaning to finish my location subs based on SE's Decathros for months now. I have what I want to write, just need to buckle down and do it!!