List #4's Goals Not Started
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just_the_thingsThese are goals I completely and totally failed on. Didn't even start them.
35. Dig up some of Dum Spiro Spero and do something with it
Man, I wish I'd been able to do something with this set of novels I started more than 20 years ago. Because I still love the characters and wish I could transform them into something worth reading. But I just couldn't think of what to do with it. Turn it into short stories? Archive it forever and write it off? Finish the novels? Think of better plots? Nope. I got nothing. Poor Clan MacLennan of Kintail!
37. Publish a Writers’ Roundtable anthology/collection
Technically, I did do one thing toward this goal. I looked into using Submittable to get submissions from roundtable members. However, there was no plan that fit my budget. And that's where my momentum ended. So it was hardly a beginning. This just didn't happen. I did end up spending over a year self-publishing my own collection of stories, so my efforts went into collecting, editing, organizing, adding, editing more, commissioning cover art, and putting it all together. I wish that project could replace this one. But that's not the way my list works.
45. Drive the whole Blue Ridge Parkway
I am SO sad that I didn't get this done. I wanted to do it some autumn, which normally would be a pretty good time work-wise for it (and weather-wise as well). But lately my life has been so busy it just never happened. I had no chances to sit down and plan and even fewer to actually take off a week of work to do it. I hope that I'll be able to do it some time in my life!
79. Go through all my CDs and floppy discs
Okay, so I'm really not as lazy as I seem! No, I didn't even start this (okay, technically I did go through one stack of CDs, but I didn't do anything with them, so I don't think that really counts. The reason I didn't get this one done is because I ran out of hard drive and backup drive space. I have nowhere to put any of the files that live on those DCs and floppies. And without somewhere to put them, there really wasn't any reason to go through them. I'm adding this to my list #5 though. Now I know what it takes (an additional, large backup drive) I feel like this will be a fun project.
92. Have someone take a photo of me with one of my collections (Eeyore?) in this style: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyblincoe/sets/72157633958747915/
I had a couple mental planning sessions for this, and there was one day I almost did it, but it rained badly. So now my deck is a awful-looking and the photo is probably going to be terrible. But I'm having a friend over on Saturday who might be able to help me with this. It'll count in my grace period.
Total not even started: 5
35. Dig up some of Dum Spiro Spero and do something with it
Man, I wish I'd been able to do something with this set of novels I started more than 20 years ago. Because I still love the characters and wish I could transform them into something worth reading. But I just couldn't think of what to do with it. Turn it into short stories? Archive it forever and write it off? Finish the novels? Think of better plots? Nope. I got nothing. Poor Clan MacLennan of Kintail!
37. Publish a Writers’ Roundtable anthology/collection
Technically, I did do one thing toward this goal. I looked into using Submittable to get submissions from roundtable members. However, there was no plan that fit my budget. And that's where my momentum ended. So it was hardly a beginning. This just didn't happen. I did end up spending over a year self-publishing my own collection of stories, so my efforts went into collecting, editing, organizing, adding, editing more, commissioning cover art, and putting it all together. I wish that project could replace this one. But that's not the way my list works.
45. Drive the whole Blue Ridge Parkway
I am SO sad that I didn't get this done. I wanted to do it some autumn, which normally would be a pretty good time work-wise for it (and weather-wise as well). But lately my life has been so busy it just never happened. I had no chances to sit down and plan and even fewer to actually take off a week of work to do it. I hope that I'll be able to do it some time in my life!
79. Go through all my CDs and floppy discs
Okay, so I'm really not as lazy as I seem! No, I didn't even start this (okay, technically I did go through one stack of CDs, but I didn't do anything with them, so I don't think that really counts. The reason I didn't get this one done is because I ran out of hard drive and backup drive space. I have nowhere to put any of the files that live on those DCs and floppies. And without somewhere to put them, there really wasn't any reason to go through them. I'm adding this to my list #5 though. Now I know what it takes (an additional, large backup drive) I feel like this will be a fun project.
92. Have someone take a photo of me with one of my collections (Eeyore?) in this style: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyblincoe/sets/72157633958747915/
I had a couple mental planning sessions for this, and there was one day I almost did it, but it rained badly. So now my deck is a awful-looking and the photo is probably going to be terrible. But I'm having a friend over on Saturday who might be able to help me with this. It'll count in my grace period.
Total not even started: 5
