It has been a good week and a bad week at the same time, which you can probably tell by the fact that this post is two days late. I’ve done a lot of writing on three different projects but did neglect my “pro writing” throughout the week. My organisation last week wasn’t very good and the start of this week has only been a little better. I feel like I’ve been thrown into the middle of the semester even though it’s only Week 3. It’s been a little chaotic with my different commitments stacking up on one another but I think I’ll be able to sort myself out this week.

I need to make sure I’m finding time for daily writing rather than just letting it build up and trying to chip away at it at the end of the week. Is this something that a lot of people have a problem with? Or am I just a pleb writer, haha.

Currently, my targets for the week are at:

• 11,658  / 10,000 for “Personal Writing”
• 3,764 / 5,000 for “Professional Writing”

The three projects that I have been working on are TAS, The Doll and my KWB306 Writing Project that is currently named Interview with a Serial Saviour. Now, the goal was to finish the first two projects once and for all, with my extended deadline being last Sunday, but I only managed to wrap up TAS, unfortunately, making it a failure on the part of The Doll. I’m not incredibly upset about this and intend to try harder and write smarter next time the writing month starts with a Focus Project. If I don’t make the deadlines next time, then I need to reconsider the length of time I’m giving myself.

I’m not great at adhering to a writing limit because I just get carried away and I think that was the issue here. TAS was only meant to be 20,000 words originally and finished at 86,000 words, biting into the time I should have been working on The Doll. If I can’t fix my problem of writing more than I planned to, I’ll probably need to extend the deadline by a month and give the focus projects two months. But it’s a little frustrating because I know I should get better at managing my word limits but if a story becomes something bigger than it was meant to be, I don’t like trying to stop it.

I’ve rearranged my desk again and so there is a lot more of a window-view. I don’t know if this will be better or worse in terms of being a distraction, I just know that it’s a lot easier for me to move things around and have three notebooks open at once. It’s also a lot more agreeable to spreading a notebook out in front of me and writing without having to push my laptop off the desk.

March and April will be focused on drafting (and completing) TAS and The Doll, with my uni assessments taking up the bulk of my writing targets and focusing a little more on actually trying to make quality content on my WordPress sites and build upon my Dungeon Master skills without needing to flip tables. I should also start proofing my posts properly. I don’t actually re-read all of them because I’m usually pressed for time when I’m trying to get them completed and it’s probably bad practice not to proof-read them properly as a writer. I think one of my issues is that I’m insecure about what I post and so am basically limiting myself so I can use the excuse of “I don’t try too hard” if anyone ever says “your blog is garbage”. I do try, but I don’t work as hard on it as I probably should if I want it to become something. The other part of me also likes posting stuff raw, as that’s how I’ve always written in the past, just making sure that my grammar and spelling is correct. But learning to properly clean up my posts and make them more engaging is something I will need to learn how to do. And that means I need to learn how to push aside my stubbornness and lack of self-confidence and enter the writing community properly, even if it means just starting with properly reading through the blog posts and work of other writers (which I definitely don’t do enough of).

Here’s to trying to make improvements!

My Writing Reflection is finally done, and with this, I close the chapter of last week.

And now let’s do it all over again.

That’s my Writing Reflection for the week starting the 2nd March 2020.