In order to keep up with writing in a month when I had last minute (or first available) surgery followed by pretty frequent physical therapy, I am writing short stories. I hope to write enough to publish a collection, maybe by July, if editing and revision goes extra smoothly.
Of course, I have conlanging projects I am trying to get into shareable shape too. I have good progress into one of those, at least. It needs to be finished, edited, and revised whenever I can manage that.
Perhaps I should have gone with a word count goal after all, something I could do across all projects. I guess it doesn’t really matter, since I am doing this on my own anyway, and I am just proving to myself that I really can write more and can finish things.
I’m just going to write like it will never be read. I tend to ruin a lot of writing thinking too hard about what other people might think as I am drafting up my first version. I realize that it is best to consider your audience when you write, but on a first pass where you’re just trying to get the guts of it onto the screen or paper, it might be best to let that audience be hypothetical at most. There’s plenty of time to shape it for them in revision.
The Mia Experiment 