#small goals

And who does not like a good Roald Dahl book? I managed to get my hands on Charlie and the great glass elevator at a secondhand earlier this week. I have not read it and decided it was time to learn something new. :)

Bonus art!

Let’s go

These are the WIPs I’m hoping to get done and how many words I’ve written on them since trying for a small goal (in this case, it was literally to write anything, even if it was a single word):

“The Price” chapter 1 (FrostHunter, The Flash) - 79 words

“15 Minutes” chapter 6 (John/Reader, Halo) - 4 words

“Choices” Emile’s chapter (Noble Team/Reader choose your own Spartan adventure, Halo: Reach) - 129 words

“Itch” new one-shot, not a WIP (John/Cortana, Halo) - 3 words

Still in the running but nothing in the last day or two: “Recreation” ch3 (Kai/male Reader, Halo), “Guardian Angel” ch3 (Eobard/Time Wraith!Caitlin, The Flash) and never-ending editing/rewriting/weeping and wailing 😱😉 for “Cupid’s Kiss” ch3 (Eobard/Caitlin, The Flash).

Frens, I’ve been thisclose to admitting defeat, to throwing my hands metaphorically in the air and declaring that I’m never going to write again. I probably would have if not for the fact that I honestly love each of these fics and characters and there’s at least some spark of them all still alive in me. I want to read what happens next, too. I want them to get to have as decent an ending as possible.

Setting small, almost literally “please just write one single word” goals has kept me from giving up all together. I wasn’t even going to mention this because, come on, is writing 4 words really something to tell people about like you’re proud of it? In this case, yes. You have no idea how hard it was to write those 4 words because my brain is screaming at me to give up. That whatever I write will be so bad, so awful, it would be less embarrassing to just never finish these WIPs and never write that new one-shot. I just... let it scream and wrote around the noise as best I could. 4 words but I had to fight for each one. I didn’t give up. I won’t give up. It’s like my car is on fire and all of the wheels are about to fall off but I still want to finish the race.

Small goals. I’ll post another update when I have one. Wish me luck pushing this shrieking fireball on down the track a little more. 🤞😣🤞