I titled this post “unfinished” because that is so often the story of my life! I plan projects well and start them well, but it takes me forever to finish. I just don’t like the process, I am so easily bored. It really affects me both in the SCA and mundanely. I knew this anyway, but really noticed it this morning when I went to update my list of A&S 50 persona projects. I’ve been working steadily on several projects so I assumed I could put in updates, but no — the new projects were all in process! Ack!

Some of this is unavoidable since several projects are slated for Caid’s Pentathlon. Two projects are done (one poem, one prose piece) but I won’t post them until Pentathlon is over. And the rest of the projects will be done by the April deadline and Iwill post them then. But still.

What I want and need to do — both in the SCA and mundanely — is pick a project and finish it. I can’t work on more than one project at once anyway, so why not target its completion and just do it? And with a longer project, plan it in stages and milestones and do that. It’s completely obvious and I get that, but I still struggle to do it.

So. Here is my public plan for my SCA projects: pick one project (or portion thereof) and get it done. Then start the next one. I believe it will look like this:

1. Finish my research paper on late Anglo Saxon burial practices (I’m weird like that).
2. Write a poem in the Anglo Saxon style and provide documentation.
3. Finish my red checked wool by March 7.

O.K. — here I go. Wish me good hunting, because if I can learn to take projects to completion than my life will be much, much improved.