101 again (#SFWApro)

This has been a lazier weekend than expected (not that I’m complaining!) so not much blogging getting done either. However I did want to note that as of Friday, my second 101 in 1,001 project expired.
As noted at the link, this is where instead of a New Year’s resolution, you choose 101 things to do in 1001 days. My 1001st day for the 2011 list was Friday.
The first time I tried this, I got two-thirds of my 101 items done. This time out, it was maybe 46 percent. Part of that was because dealing with Mum’s problems last year used up a lot of time and energy (TYG’s two surgeries were actually easier to work around). And moving, suprise, sucks up time like bally-o.
One goal—12 hours fiction writing a week—I kept up right until the past month. Up until August, if I missed time I made it up, eventually. But various odds and ends and the two spec assignments left me unable to catch up (if I had another 101 days I’d work on it … but I don’t).
The accomplished goals include lots of minor ones. Going out with TYG to one movie a month. Give a total $500 to charity. Bake dessert once a month. Watch 200 movies (I had a hard time fitting videos into my schedule the first year I was up here). Some were personally important (take part in wedding planning. And, you know, get married). The writing goals accomplished include attending Dragoncon, submitting my book proposal to McFarland, studying 100 people and describing them, and finishing 20 short stories (Fiddler’s Black and Fox and the Hedgehog last week brought me to 20).
Unsurprisingly, there were lots of unaccomplished goals. I had a list of specific stories I planned to finish and only three of them were in the 20. Not a problem. There’s no way to know which story will actually come together, so I consider that part of the list very flexible (it’s not as if I’m under contract for any of them). The two writing goals I’m most disappointed at missing were that I didn’t finish Brain From Outer Space and that I only sold eight stories. I’d wanted 12.
I am curious how I’ll perform without the 12-hour mandate (I have another set of 1,001 that runs out next year, but it’s all different goals). It was remarkably effective at keeping my nose to the grindstone, particularly when adverse events threw me off. However now that I’m working all day and not in the evening, I think my total productivity is up. So I’m optimistic I can keep up the 12 hours even without a written goal (like everyone says, having it written down really can make a difference). Time will tell.