Golden Anvil

Happy 4th (to those of you who actually live in the U.S. (although I'm pretty sure that's all of my vast readership (but still, as I've already read once so far, non-Americans can get pretty tired of "people" assuming that everyone on the internet lives in the U.S.))).

Guess what? It's a new month. That means a new project! Actually, I hate to say this, but last month I got tired of doing last month's project, so I started this month's project early. It turns out that I was interested in doing the layout for the Fangor book, but not as interested in doing the actual writing. Ah well. At least now I'm "legal" on my project. Anyway, I've already put in an estimated 26 hours on this project. Pretty good for *cough* only having worked a few days on it.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm making an attempt to pick a single project each month and focus on that project. This serves two benefits. First, it forces me to actually pick a single one of my many projects and make significant progress on it. This is good for helping me learn how to make progress towards completing my projects and how to stick with something even when something else catches my imagination. Second, it gives me a chance to actually switch to other projects periodically. Really, a month isn't that long to wait to get to do something else that sounds interesting.

The nice thing is that I'm not giving myself the expectation of actually finishing a project in a month. Instead, at the end of the month it'll just go back in the big bucket o' projects, and I'll move on to something else. Some month down the road I'll get back to the project and do some more work on it.