#Prose

As I suspected when I decided to do quarterly goals this year, I have had to reevaluate my plans for the year already. There's still another month left in the first quarter but there has been enough change I feel it's appropriate at this point to simply set my second quarter goals now and roll March's progress in with them.   First, an update on my first quarter plans:

• Write more stories! While I have not written as many as I had hoped for I have indeed been writing. I also spent a lot of time organizing my Facets of Fillimet short story collection, and organizing my future writing intentions. This goal will carry over throughout the year and possibly beyond, although it may shift forms to focus on specific projects.

   

• Progress in my "Creatures of Fillimet" article. This one has changed, as I determined my "Magic of Fillimet" article to be more useful and more important right now. As magic is a major foundation to Fillimet it makes more sense to work that first. Progress has been good, with many magics gaining stronger definitions this quarter. A few of my more recent ones below, as I work on my Divine Magic.

   

• Participate in Kickstarter's February Zine Quest. After much introspection I determined that this year was not the right time for me to run a Kickstarter. I have not abandoned this goal, but rather rescheduled it to 2022. In the meantime I will still be working this one behind the scenes to have a product closer to finalization by ZineQuest next year. Expect to see more Fillimet professions on the horizon, especially as I work through each class of magic.

  As I am sure you have guessed by now, many of my adjusted first quarter goals will carry over into this quarter:  

1. Write more stories! These will still remain in the form of short stories within articles in all likelihood, although I hope to branch out into more longer (but still short) stories as the quarter progresses.
2. Continue working the Magic of Fillimet. I hope to have my Divine Magics completed by the end of March, at which point I will pick the next category to work. (I am also open to requests if there's something you want to know.)
3. Organize Vazdimet. One of my personal goals for the year was to take better care of my mental health, and so I am throwing in a fun side project to my current quarter goals. My world of Vazdimet is a reboot of my science fiction world from high school, rewritten instead as a science fantasy set in Fillimet's far future. I don't plan to be writing much here this quarter, and hence the work in Vazdimet will be largely invisible (excluding Damion Otter's lovely CSS updates), but my old notes will be undergoing a metamorphosis as I determine how best to update them to fit the world's new foundation.

  Other smaller plans include writing spells and professions to fit with Fillimet's magic system, and to continue my efforts towards ZineQuest 2022.   How are your goals for 2021 shaping out? Any new directions you have found yourself taking now that we are two months in?   #Vazdimet #Fillimet #Prose #Goals