The Year of DNF and other WIPs

So the first month of the year is almost over, thus it seemed like a good time to look up from the list of goals, books, shows, projects, etc., that I had the best of intentions of starting and finishing but now lie half finished and forgotten under a layer of dust and pet hair and make a new list of things filled with good intentions.

As almost always, Crowley is right

I found most of the things that I wanted to accomplish were things I hadn't last year. What was the point of making more goals if I was already surround by piles of Did Not Finish, Works In Progress, and To Be Read.

There is a good chance that someday I will be crushed to death under my TBR pile alone.

At least that's how I am hoping I'll die. #deathgoals

So I decided to start with that, get a handle on my reading. Go through the ones that I had started and then drifted away from like the ghost of a eighteenth century French ballerina off to haunt her duplicitous betrothed in the forest and not finished. Go through the piles of books that I just haven't gotten around to looking at and get them off the floor and either on a shelf or re-homed (Michener why do I have so many of your books? I've never even read you!). Just not buy any more books until I finished the ones I have. That at least should be easy!

I lasted a week.

Damn ebook sales.

You try passing up a sale copy of Alyssa Cole's An Extraordinary Union though. Have you seen the reviews for it? It looks awesome!

Anyway, I had already failed, somewhat gloriously and I was fine with that. I could still go with the second part of the plan which was to actually read through all those DNF books forgotten on the odd side table, under the stack of yarn that needed to be crafted (more on that in a minute), or long forgotten on my ereader when a new JR Charles or Cat Stevens book had shown up.

Yay reading! So that's the plan, alternate books that I have wandered away from with ones that I have been desperately wanting to read. You'll probably be able to tell the difference when reading my reviews.

The second part of this challenge is turning out to be a bit more hands on. Crafting.

So yeah. I have a ton of crafting supplies that were bought for a project and either I had leftovers or that project just never...happened. And now I am in danger of being killed by the fiber arts, and if I am going to die of the arts I'd rather it be by something that involved less googly eyes.

So the yarn will be the first to go. Anything that can't be turned into gifts or made into stuff to be donated will itself be donated at the end of the year. You hear that sub-par red acrylic? You are hanging on by a thread!

Now to writing...sigh

I am soooo close to finishing the first of this last year's Nano. That's the goal...I have the rest of the chapters outlined...it is totally going to happen...now if I could just figure out how to finish the revisions on my other finished draft that would be good.

So there you have it, some steps in the battle of the DNF, WIPs, and TBR specters that haunt me. Now to just keep from wondering off into the haunted forest of distractions...