Renaming and Reclaiming Goals

First things first, I am renaming this blog as I have been getting away from the books part of what this blog is dedicated to. I am still reading, slowly, but I just haven't been wanting to do reviews. It's selfish, but I want to keep my views to myself or post something small to Goodreads. If you were here for the book reviews, the very few that I did, feel free to find and friend me on Goodreads. Just mention that you found me here first and I will friend you back. I only don't friend back those who seem like spam accounts or accounts that are about hooking up only (I'm looking at you Instagram). So, yes, renaming the blog. It is going to now be Words 'n Geekery. I am naming it that because that's what I do here. I spew words, either through writing a blog post here or writing my books / fanfic, and I geek about things.

I am going to have up a review post about Star Trek: Discovery as I have some strong feelings on it. I am just sort of sitting on my feels at the moment as I want to rewatch the pilot. I also have negative feelings on the fact that CBS is making us pay for the show but that's a tangent best for the post. Also, I plan on having more posts talking about things that I do on a normal basis, like Starbucks stuff and Avengers and everything that I love talking about. I just feel that it should be on a bigger scale. On this note, another reason for renaming the blog is that I am working towards having Words 'n Geekery be a podcast as well. I don't know when this is going to happen. I am slowly working on it now to get it up by the end of the year but it might be early 2018 because NaNoWriMo is coming.

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I'm just here for the GoT memes, I know nothing about the show or the book outside of the first one. It's just not my thing, which... yeah. That might also be another topic coming up or it might be a podcast episode. We'll see. However, that's not all we're here to talk about today.

The second part of the post title says reclaiming goals. I set goals for myself at the beginning of this year and I'm slipping on them. This is okay because I'm starting to feel they're slipping because I'm not ready for the end result just yet. Like I wanted to get Mystery of the Dark out to publishing houses this year. This might still happen and I'm terrified. It might also be an early 2018 thing and I get less terrified. The being terrified part is not because it's new but because... I'm not a social person. I have issues putting myself out there when I need to be in front of people talking, even on a one on one basis, because my brain works better in writing format. I am better in email where I can go back and re-read what I've written a million times (or not) before sending it off. My brain freezes in front of people sometimes. So, I want to work on that and I think doing the podcast will help with that as well because, even with it not being a live audience, it's still an audience.

The next part is that I want to start having quarter goals as well as big year goals. So, with WriYe, we have the year sectioned into four quarters and they're much like the financial quarters. Quarter 1 is January through March, second one is April through June, third is July through September, and the fourth is October through December. Those are the four quarters of the year. For the last quarter that is coming up, I am going to make myself some quarter goals and do my best to stick with them. One of those quarter goals is going to be the same as the big year one that I have which is to get Mystery of the Dark out of the final editing stage to the push it out to publishers stage. It's just something that needs to get done. Another quarter goal is to read more. While I have been reading and reading slowly, I haven't been finishing books. So I'm going to try and read 1 new book and finish 1 book that I've been in the middle of for forever. Magic's Price, I'm looking at you, as you're the first big one I'm going to try this on.

So, it's stuff like that. I also have a quarter goal of blogging more and figuring out podcasting. We'll see how it goes. What are your quarter goals and what do you think of the rename? Feel free to leave comments down below as well as poking me on Twitter at CrescentLizzy. Until next time, keep on doing you. 

[WriYe Blogging Circle] Hello 2015: There Can Be Only One

Hello everyone!  I'm back, after a few days of getting into the feel of 2015, and decided to kick off with doing the WriYe Blogging Circle.  It will become known as the WBC when I'm feeling too lazy to type that all out.  For those who are new, this is a once a month blogging prompt about a certain topic.  For example, this month is about the one goal for the year and then asking a few questions about it.  What I do is usually list the questions and then have my answers follow them.  It's a simple format and I might change it up or I might not.  Either way, it's a fun once a month prompt that I like to answer.

Goals: What is your one main goal for this year?  Call it your writing resolution - not two, not five - your main and only one.  Why is it your only goal?

Well, I do have a lot, but the one big main goal is to publish this year.  I've got a novel on it's third draft, called Mystery of the Dark, about dhampirs and vampires and all those good supernatural stuffs.  I'm hoping to find a small press instead of a big one, mostly because I feel that a smaller press would be better for me, but we'll see where the chips fall.  Either way, I've got to get 3.0 done to get to 3.5 to get to 4.0.  Draft four goes out to the readers to see if people like it enough and to make sure that I'm hit all the narrative points.  Don't have plot holes and the like.  It's going to be fun in the end.

Bonus: Make a mantra to tell yourself all year when you feel as if you can't reach this goal.  Share it with us!

You mean aside from "Let It Go"?  I think the mantra is more "Yes We Can" or "I Can Do It".  The "Yes We Can" coming from the year that I started winning NaNoWriMo (2008) along with all the other craziness going on.  The craziness being working as a volunteer in the field on a Presidential campaign, getting sick right after, but being able to write 50,000 words in such a short time after.  That was the year that I truly, in my mind, became a writer.  Therefore, "Yes We Can" doesn't sound half bad.


That's it for now.  There might be something coming up this week but we'll see.  It's still early in the year, so I'm going to try to keep on blogging as much as I can, so watch this space.