I'm a big believer in chipping away and not losing faith in projects. I take this approach in both my professional work and in my writing work, where I aspire to be a professional.
While there's nothing like the big old days of dedicated labor, I think there's something to be said about the continual journey forward. The slow progress, a day at a time, gradually turns into a journey of miles. I don't know if this is the right path, and I don't know if it's the wrong path. All I know is that some progress is better than none, and I hope that as long as I keep moving forward, I'll get to where I'm going.
Sometimes, however, time runs low and more time needs to be invested. That's the nature of the game. And sometimes there's no other choice but to bite the bullet and get it done. I'm not sure if the time I'm investing is enough. I hope it is, but I don't know, and that scares me. On some days, it even haunts me.
Maybe I'm in a bit of a pessimistic mood while writing this blog post, but aside from my current mood, things are going pretty solid. I'm still struggling to hit my 30-hour-a-month editing goal, but still making immense progress and hitting my 10k word drafting goal pretty much every month. Of note, I've also got a real shot at hitting a tried and true deadline.
I need to have submitted to 50 agents by the end of September 2024 and to have completed what I'm calling Gloradel's Draft 4 by the end of August as well. Gloradel's edit is complete and ready for what I'm going to call my self-publishing phase if no agent picks it up, and I've got 10 agents left to go with the submissions. While I'm hoping someone does express interest, even if an agent doesn't, I won't let this stop me from my writing journey.
I've simply spent too much time on it to stop now. It's kind of funny how powerful a sunk cost fallacy can be, even with something I do love and enjoy.
Aside from the chipping away and moving forward bit, I saw the Wolverine and Deadpool movie and thought it was really good. The Dragon Age playthrough is going pretty well; I finished the first and the second one, but still need to start Inquisition. And I'm finally, finally, almost done with Kim's Convenience.
I'm also trying to be on a big gratitude kick, and we shall see how that goes. I'm enjoying it a lot, and although life can sometimes pull me back into the weeds, high level, things are good.
Anyway, that's all I have for this month. I'm going to continue with these monthly updates. I think next month I'll do a check-in, provide a high-level writing update, and then after that, I will do my secondary world blog post.
Also here's my AI picture prompt. This one is: 'A lifetime left of chipping away'.
Thank you again for your time and I hope y'all are having a nice day.
Sincerely,
Josh Acocella
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