there are two major projects that i have utterly failed to move forward on this year. the first is my iceland video, the pilot for a series of videos i would like to create that walk through the logistics of travel in an infotainment format. i’ve done nothing to move the ball on that since i set some achievable, bite-sized goals out for myself earlier this month. i feel the pull of the project but it falls to the wayside under all of the other projects i’ve been working on this month. i definitely think that i did the right thing by focusing on what i did this month, but i didn’t set aside this long-term project in a healthy, conscious way, so even though the result is the same, the lack of intent is a fail.
i’ve also completely left my fiction series to gather dust since the spring, and i’m feeling the weight of that very heavily this week. i suppose part of the issue is that i’ve been lulled into inaction as i’ve read so many great series this year. but currently i’m between series or waiting for new sequels to be published so it’s as good a time as any to abandon my reading habit and dive into writing headfirst.
so what can i do to correct these infractions of inaction? number one, i need to slow down on seeking new photography work so that i can take the time to work on this larger project. i need to finish this travel video because i spent so much time planning for it that i need to see what the result of that planning will be. i need to know if this is something i could be good at. if it’s an idea that i could sell.
on the writing front, i am going to download a novel-writing app that will help me organize all the work i’ve done so far and to make sure i’m coloring inside the lines as i get to the actual writing portion of the project. i wanted to be well into the writing phase by now, with hopes of having a decent manuscript by the middle of 2019, and despite being behind schedule, i could still meet my deadline if i push hard on this.
i am going to check in at the end of january on these items, and hopefully at that time it will be with a link to the iceland video, and with all of the scaffolding for the fiction project completed.
i can do this.