Yay, finally got a date for my preliminary appointment with a psychotherapist.

Anyway. It has recently been brought to my attention by one of my nagging voices (which finally got itself heard over the zOMG UR 2 FAT one - yes, I appear to be turning into Bridget Jones and I hate it) that not only am I not writing enough, I'm writing all the wrong things.

Simply put: I have a multipart WIP that has been sitting around gathering dust, simply because I am a lazy h0r who can't get anything of any real length finished. No, it's not Roses in Rain. It's a little fic known as Seuche, which some of you may in fact remember hearing about from time to time, and I have not touched it in months.

This saddens me, as I seem to remember that it was rather good and I liked it.

In a desperate attempt to finish Seuche sometime before the Last Trump, I am going to try and do any and all of the following until the wretched fic is finally over and done with, and I can stop feeling bad about this too. I want this finished, and I suspect finishing my fanfic is going to be considerably easier than getting myself in a decent enough shape that prospective employers aren't going to take one look at me and think um, not a chance. An action plan is required and this will involve the following:

• I will not start any new chaptered WIPs until Seuche is finished.
  
  
• I will endeavor not to start any new one-shots either, provided I can avoid falling victim to the Hideous Porn Muse again.
  
  
• All the chapter fics I have started writing but have yet to post the openings to will be placed on hiatus until this fic sorts its shit out. This won't inconvenience anybody except me because, as I've said, I haven't posted the first parts of any of them yet.
  
  
• In fact, I will put all my current WIPs on hiatus except for Seuche, Roses in Rain, and One Way Ticket - and the last one only gets the reprieve because I'm writing it as a companion piece to Card's Mindfuckery Fics and don't think it's fair to make her wait for me to finish a very lengthy WIP before I apply myself to this thing.
  
  
• I will not spork more than three badfics a week.
  
  
• I will not write more than two fanfic rants a month.
  
  
• I will not waste time editing old sporks so I can post to marysues, which is sucking quite badly now anyway and really isn't worth wasting the effort on when I can just post to badfics and have done with it.
  
  
• I will not waste whole days or evenings in rereading old fanfic rants or badfic sporks, unless I really need to make myself feel better about my own ability to string a sentence together and even then I will not spend all evening doing it anyway.
  
  
• I will not accept any more writing commitments along the lines of RPs and such. I will, of course, not be dropping out of the ones I'm doing because seriously, they rule, but I probably won't be in any position to do anything more until such time as this fic is done, because I'm going to need the time to do my own work.
  
  
• I will not go on an icon-making binge (like the one below - fortunate I've got it out my system, really) until this fic is well and truly finished. Instead, I shall reward myself with one after it is done.
  
  
• I shall set myself the target of finishing one chapter every four weeks, because this sounds like something that I not only could achieve, but could exceed if I really pushed myself, unlike pledges to write [X] number of words a day, week or month which always end up sounding either utterly pathetic or really scary.
  
  
• I shall set myself an entirely arbitrary date by which the fic needs to be completed lest the world be plunged into darkness. At present I'm thinking something in mid-July.
  

So, it's going to be kind of like NaNo, only with no word goal to achieve and no one-month time limit, because I know I can't write that fast and not end up producing something which is, put simply, total rubbish.

Instead the goal is simply to FINISH THIS DAMN FANFIC, YOU LAZY H0R.