There's nothing I hate more than the end of winter. Not because I like winter, but because it takes so damned long for the season to give up and let spring take root. I'm at the point where I'm just always tired and easily irritated. Sick of the cold and all the snow and my car looks like crap and I'm stalled out in basically everything.
There's still at least five weeks of winter to go if one believes in the groundhog, so I've decided to use that as my goal. Five weeks. A little over a month. The official first day of spring this year is 3/20, so that will be my deadline. My goal is to finish the first draft of my longest unfinished work to date, Sable and Haze. Sure, it's "just" a NaNo novel, but I didn't do anything silly like trying to pad it unnecessarily for the word count. In fact, my NaNo only lasted about six days before things came up. Still managed 12k or so on it. I don't know exactly how long it will be but I'm aiming for somewhere around 60k. Short for the fantasy genre, but I don't feel like I should be writing a huge 100k tome when the story I'm telling doesn't require such a massive amount of words.
So, given that ballpark total, I have a little over a month to write a little less than 50k. It's basically NaNo redux. Maybe it'll help me get over this terrible winter rut. Happens every year, never seems to get any easier.
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