Good evening, squiders! I hope your week is going well.
So far, this random number generator plan I mentioned last week is working great. I’ve outlined my SkillShare class (something I’ve had on my to-do list for, like, two months), made great progress on my trip book and character drawings, and have finished my edit and sent it off to my final beta.
And I’ve actually made a lot of progress on other goals, like reading and playing video games.
I do think I was psyching myself out. Because when I was making my daily to do lists, I was listing drawing AND editing AND writing AND outlining, and so it’s no real surprise that I was having a bit of issues with prioritization and focus.
Now I’m just putting “Creativity” on my to-do list and doing whatever the task for the day is, and not feeling guilty because I’m not getting to it all.
So, fingers crossed, but so far, so good!
Also, now that it is October, the best of all months, it means MileHiCon is coming up. It’s a bit inconvenient this year, because EVERYTHING is on top of it, and I have a training that I’m going to miss part of, and then have to leave the convention early for, so that’s grand.
I have three panels this year: We Named the Dog Indiana (I’m assuming on naming things), Everything Dinosaurs (self-explanatory), and then I’m moderating a panel called Horses (Because We Can). An interesting selection, as always, and no straight writing ones this year. Ah well.
Normally I wait a little longer to start MileHiCon prep, but it won’t hurt to start things early instead of stressing myself out.
So, to do list:
- Check book stock and order more if necessary
- Research and prepare for panels
- Follow up with author co-op table sign up if haven’t heard by Friday
- Figure out if I have any Writers’ Motivation fliers left over from last year and if not make more
- Bookmarks??? (And if so, of which book(s)?)
- Make sure we have Venmo, Square, et al set up and ready to go with all the pieces
- Business cards??
I feel like I’m forgetting something but we have time. Especially if I start working on stuff.
MileHiCon is one of my favorite times of the year, and I’m a bit sad that I have to truncate it this year because of the aforementioned training (but also annoying that I will have to miss part of the training! who plans this stuff) but it is what it is.
Anyway, hope you’re doing well! See you Thursday-ish!
