Jan 14, 2018
Hello Readers of Tales and Verse! It has been too long. We shouldn’t have to limit our time together to National Poetry Month.
We should be doing this ish all year round!
In that spirit, I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news is that I will not be focusing on this project any time soon. Though I will be working away at it piece-by-piece behind-the-scenes until its time comes again.
The good news is that I have begun implementing a new project schedule so that I can actually finish what I start on my ever-growing-and-evolving to-do list of books and stories and poems and plays that I spend way too much time shaking my fist at (And instead keep the writing progress going year-round).
Less fist-shaking, more writing.
My plan is to go back and forth between helpful writing and creative writing (all with ties to fairy tale principles, obviously) with each project being given 100 days as my number one priority (10 days in draft mode, 90 days in campaign mode). Here’s my current schedule:
- 100 days spent working on 31 Days of Narratemes, a guided journal for questing the crap out of your daily life;
- 100 days spent working on The ABCs of Hoarding Like a Dragon, a memoir written as an alphabet book rather than as single linear story (it’s a Polish literary genre, and I’m Polish, so I’m doing it);
- 100 days spent on Puttin’ the Puss in Boots, a guidebook to the MASTER CAT method for living happily ever out there; and,
- 100 days working on Sally Forth, a paranormal young adult book about a pair of sisters in the aftermath of one of them becoming a ghost who can only communicate by quoting Bill Murray (a very loose re-telling of SnowWhite).
Now a big part of how I plan to get this done is an accountability practice which I am making public so that we can all get things done together (plus some not-public writing practices):
- Every morning from 9:00am-11:30am I live stream my Morning Writing HERE so that anyone can join along and do what they’re going to do;
- I have created a 2-part Facebook event (because apparently you can’t created events with more than 52 individual dates) HERE and HERE where folks can keep up-to-date on book section releases and partake of my public accountability practice and get a few bonus goodies along the way;
- When I’m not publicly work on 31 Days of Narratemes, a guided journal for questing the crap out of your daily life, I have off-camera writing time scheduled for completing my memoir (then when the memoir writing goes public, my off-camera writing time will be spent on the guidebook, and so forth); and,
- At the start of each 100 days of Morning Writing, I’ll start informing readers of my incomplete projects (like you folks reading these poems) of my updated project schedule so that we don’t all forget that this is happening, people, some way, somehow.
Here’s to having the fairy tale without the lame-isms!
Good journey, my friends,
Rose