2019-2020 Eeveeyear Writing and Reading Goals

This is what I'm hoping to get done this coming year, starting October 1st. These goals are ambitious, and I probably won't meet all of them. That's okay, I'll see how well I do and it will be a learning experience. Some of them might also seem a bit asymmetrical. Sometimes that's because of non-obvious factors on my end (My freelance work sometimes requires that I read Very Long books which will contribute a lot to reading time but not a lot to book count). Sometimes it's because they are, because I'm making this up as I go and I'm only a little better at intuiting numbers than most people.
Writing Goals:
1. Write for 1000 hours. (Includes drafting and editing my own fiction, editing other people's fiction, all freelance writing, writing and editing blog posts).
2. Write 250 handwritten pages. (Includes fiction, blog posts, and occasional other things. Includes rewriting, where applicable, as well as drafting).
3. Write 30,000 words of fiction. This may be waaay too hight or too low. (Includes words of fiction transcribed from handwritten drafts or written directly on the computer).
4. Get at least two short stories ready to submit around.

Reading Goals:
1. Read 100 books. (Includes physical books, entire issues of fiction magazines, ebooks, audiobooks that I haven't read or listened to before, Fantasist submissions over 30k words, initial reads of manuscripts over 30k for editing or beta reading, any 25 short stories that could not otherwise be counted).
2. Read for 1200 hours. (Includes the above, plus portions of books that I do not intend to read in full, and short stories are timed individually, not in groups of 25).

Progress bars for most of these goals will go up over the course of the next day or so.

Weekly Update 9-20-2019

(This is a backdate post - the actual date it went up was 9-29-2019)
I am drastically behind on pretty much everything, except a massive freelance project that even I don't find that interesting, but like, money is a thing.
I did finish reading Night Seeker, which went in a less Tam Lin-y direction than I was expecting. She's not pregnant yet as far as I can tell, her fae lover is as rescued as he's likely to get, and she just got handed a crapton of new responsibilities. And obviously I finished The Unkindest Tide the day it came out. It did the major plot thing it needed to do, and we met a new firstborn, which is always nice, but it did feel a bit "well now that we have that out of the way". The book used the phrase "blood on the floor" like three times, which is so similar to the recurring phrase "blood on the snow" that I sort of think there might be another Indexing book in the offing, even though I kind of got the impression there wasn't supposed to be. And theres an adorable novella from Raj's perspective, which finally follows up on what's been happening with Helen.
I did also start Seawitch, but I'm not really far enough in to have thoughts about it yet. She's working closely with Solis on this one, so that should be interesting.
While I haven't been getting much writing done that isn't for this freelance thing, I have started using an app called 10,000+ to keep track of the time I spend reading and writing. So the 20,000 hours project is sort of back on. I counted like 100 hours from that towards the new tracking, and started the reading from scratch. I might go back to doing the progress bars again, or I might just post screenshots from the damn app. I like it because it has a trendline which gives me a more reasonable and less wildly changeable daily goal to hit than a mean. Before the end of this month, expect a post about reading and writing goals for the coming year, which I have decided starts on October 1st.
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Weekly Update 9-5-2019

Hi, I'm back, like I said I would be.
I started work on a new short story that I'm pretty excited about, although as always we'll see if that goes anywhere. And while I'm still working out the plot of my urban fantasy murder mystery, I'm starting to put together some of the whys and wherefores of the murder itself, which had been a real sticking point.
I have so far managed to read exactly one Agatha Christie novel, and only part of Pride and Prejudice, but I have two others out from the library. I also read Adam, so I could decide for myself what I thought about the controversy surrounding it. Short version: I didn't like it, and it was cringey as hell, but there's meaningful nuance around the parts that are bothering people. I wrote up a whole thing about this on Facebook, and I will crosspost it here sometime this month.
I read Demon Bound, by Caitlin Kitteridge, about which I can say very little without massive spoilers, other than that it seems to start the overarching plot of the series, and I feel unnecessarily called out by Jack as a character. Also What If It's Us, by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, which is exactly the kind of cute, fluffy, self aware mlm romance that I needed more of when I was an actual teenager. And Incarceron by Catherine Fisher, which is an oddly compelling quasi-dystopian YA...thing, and refreshingly unafraid of not always making sense. What we know about the tech doesn't always line up with what we see it do, and the existence of magic is as-yet unconfirmed, although there's a sequel so who knows. It's nifty.
I finally got around to reading The Glasswright's Progress, which goes some way towards addressing the autism question from the first book. I'm still ambivalent, but it did the bare minimum that I needed it to do.
Oh, and I read Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee, which is amazing. I'm not gonna say anything about it here because I'm going to review it later this month, but you should read it. Especially since the review will contain spoilers.
Most recently, I read The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long, which is this weird Tam Lin/Snow White mashup. It sort of works, and gives a decent balance of who rescues whom, but the pacing is super weird, and it's Prince Charming Jack whose heart ends up in a box (or is a box?), while he plays the role of the Huntsman at the same time. And that's actually a really valid consolidation, but we've also got Jenny's brother Tom as our Tam Lin for most of the story, only to have his extraction from Faerie be carried off rather anticlimactically so Jenny can go back and do the final rescue with Jack. (And she will change me in your arms, etc.)
As you can see, I have not been idle during my long absence. If nothing else I've kept up with my reading. The next three books for me to read are gonna be The Unkindest Tide (October Daye), Night Seeker (Indigo Court), and Seawitch (Greywalker). Also there's a new season of Bakeoff out, so I'll likely be getting more writing done than usual.