~pretend there's a pretty image here~


hi, i'm mel! this is my .. 12th? year of doing wriye, if you count all the years i didn't really participate. which i will, because why not? last year (pretend i'm writing this in 2021) was the first time i ever actually reached my goal however, which is a huge win for me. over 300,000 words! in one year! so i'm going to try and do it again.

IRL i am a graphic designer and if you live in washington or alaska, i make some of the junk mail and trash you see in one of your local grocery stores. fun fact - i made some signs that are in some super remote alaskan grocery store, way at the tippy top of the state. (look up barrow, ak on google maps. it's crazy yet beautiful and now complete with mel originals™)

i write (obviously) primarily fantasy and space opera. i have a habit of never finishing things and abandoning them (crystal souls and crumbly bits) but one of my goals this year is to start tackling the editing beast by reworking, rewriting and then editing a story i wrote in 2020. i also play far too many video games, generally of the RPG variety and sometimes write fluffy mass effect fanfiction that no one on this earth will ever see except for me.


yearly goals

• write 300,000 words
• rewrite and potentially begin edits on mechs
• read 50 books

vague goals

• art
• code

January

so, it's finally 2021! i'm excited to start a new year, though i'm still cautiously optimistic how much better it will be. maybe later on things will improve for everyone but until then, i am embracing my inner hermit and just staying home. which gives me time for .. writing and art. ;]

don't ask me how long it took to spell 'perseverance' correctly. i still rely on my laptop's autocorrect function tbh. if it's still wrong, blame apple. it's my theme for the year - to just keep going, keep writing and work on all those various things i want to accomplish. i've noticed that i've gotten better over the past year and so, want to continue to improve. that almost sounds inspiring, doesn't it? ;p 

i'm taking writing easy for the month - keeping a low word count, though i hope i can easily get 10k. my true goal is to stop cheating at 4tw, write at least a little every day and keep working on my various projects. if i don't get all the RaTs prompts into the generator, feel free to kick me. 

monthly writing goals

• write 10,000 words (0 / 10,000)
• 4tw streak (369 days)

other goals

• finish RaTs Generator
• read at least one book
• sketch a day ( 0 / 31)

Best of luck, Mel! Thanks for taking on the RaTs Generator!

Jan 6, 2021 17:53:15 GMT -5 Roisin said:

Best of luck, Mel! Thanks for taking on the RaTs Generator!

Thanks for the reminder that I need to keep working on it.

Good luck with everything! Perseverance definitely is the key. I know from discord you are already smashing your goal of the RaT's generator and your sketches have been amazing on sketch a day. Go you!

i love the thread title!
also the generator is GOLD. <3

January

Thanks everyone! Compliments fuel my work, I won't lie, lol. Right now, I'm working on adding in toppings so you can either get a random one, or pick your own.

So apparently, I greatly underestimated my word count goals for the month. Unfortunately, none of it (save like 800 words) is original fiction, just a very long, rambly fanfiction story. But! I don't care too much, because it's getting me to write and all words are good.

Art goals have been meh so far, with only drawing a few of the prompts. My seal is my favorite. I feel like I may have better luck just picking a subject and drawing from there, because the randomness makes me think too much. ;p

monthly writing goals

• write 10,000 words (21,715 / 10,000)
• write 30,000 words (21,715 / 30,000)
• 4tw streak (377 days)

other goals

• finish RaTs Generator
• read at least one book
• sketch a day (2 / 31)

Looks like you're doing great on the word count front! All words are definitely good, and long, rambly fanfiction can be amazing. What fandom are you writing for?

January

wardenred Greedfall! It's a fantasy RPG around colonialism (which sounds.. bad and admittedly I tried to help the native people as much as I could lol) but it has some really interesting characters, but not a lot of interactions between them, and so that's mostly what I've been writing.

January is going.. surprisingly well? I couldn't really tell you how, but I guess it's a cross between things being slow at work and me writing a combination of fanfic and restarting Mechs. The latter is going well, and it's pretty much entirely different. Oops. The important things are still the same, though. It just has .. more plot? now, which is probably a good thing. 

Next week will be interesting - I have to start going back into the office two days a week (I've ranted about this extensively on discord lol) for no good reason, so that may cut into my writing time a bit. Or maybe I'll write more, because it's easy to pretend I'm doing work. ;]

monthly writing goals

• write 10,000 words (21,715 / 10,000)
• write 30,000 words (32,338 / 30,000)
• write ??? words (32,338)
• 4tw streak (383 days)

other goals

• finish RaTs Generator
• read at least one book 2!
• sketch a day (3 / 31)
• no murdering 

So is the no murdering goal related to having to go back into the office, or not killing the entire book cast...?

That's awesome that you accomplished both your word count goals this month. The plot of your book sounds very interesting as well. I've never heard of a fantasy novel set in the colonial era. I'm also glad you haven't murdered anyone (yet). LOL! Keep up the good work!

yessss take full advantage of being able to "fake" work since they're making you go back into the office.
stupid work people.
glad your january is going well!

Jan 19, 2021 0:02:04 GMT -5 khelessindarae said:

So is the no murdering goal related to having to go back into the office, or not killing the entire book cast...?

The office. 😂

January

thanks everyone! my first 'week' at the office was SUPER EXTRA boring to no great surprise. didn't get a lot of writing done, mostly because they've added a lot of new 'security' that i don't really want to mess with. (i'm sure IT really wants to read my awful novel trash lolol) so i might just bring my laptop in. no one has been bothering me though, which is nice. (also super weird. but whatever.)

as for writing.. i don't even know what my goal is anymore. 50k? i mean sure, why not? it's mostly just garbage (but it's MY garbage 😂) so it doesn't feel particularly significant, but i have been making some progress with original fiction. just not a lot. 

RaTs Generator has been on hold a bit as i've run into a problem with updating the toppings - the logic keeps breaking when you want multiple prompts, alas. the rest of it still works fine and i think i still have a few hundred (if not thousand) more prompts to add, mostly the obscure ones. whee!

monthly writing goals

• write 10,000 words (21,715 / 10,000)
• write 30,000 words (32,338 / 30,000)
• write 50,000?? words (39,391 / 50,000)
• 4tw streak (392 days)

other goals

• finish RaTs Generator
• read at least one book 2!
• sketch a day (3 / 31)
• no murdering 

Sometimes writing trash is just needed. And fun.

Great job with all the words so far.