So January has so far been a complete failure on trying to meet my goals. It is the 23rd, and I just passed 4,000 words this month. I'm intending to pass 80,000 words on Fealty today, which will put me at 5,000 words towards this months goal of 30,000. The reason? Life happens. The month started with the usual end of Christmas/start of New Year chaos. After that. it was mostly work. I'm an accountant in my 'day job,' and January is year end, so work has been sucking out all of my ... Read more »
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New Year, New Goal, Same Challenges
So, it is now 2011, and my goal for January is very simple: Finish Changeling's Fealty. I was at 75,000 words at the end of 2010, and the story looks like it will be around 100,000 words. The target for the month is 30,000 words or when the novel is finished, whichever comes first. How far have I got? About six hundred words. The same year end stress that hammered my writing in the first half of December is back. I've got lots of catching up to do. ... Read more »
December Goal – Made it (or close enough)
I am finishing up for December at 74,923 words. This puts me 77 words short of where I intended to be at the end of the month, and I can live with that. Having the goal for the month led me to really push myself to write more this last week, and its been good for me. The monthly goals will continue. And to show everyone just what I've been up to, here's our intrepid main character dueling a vampire: "The room was much cleaner than the first three, no scattered blood, no bodies. The ... Read more »
Yuletide Greetings
Happy Holidays everyone! So, as December draws past the Solstice and towards the Christmas/Boxing Day Extravaganza, I'm taking stock of where I'm got on my objective for the month. I targeted 25,000 words, and currently have bang on 15,000. I plan on writing some more tomorrow, and am aiming for a couple of three or four thousand word days - I do have three more days of holiday that aren't the 25th or 26th. I may actually manage my 10,000 remaining by the end of the month. I'm going ... Read more »
Goals, Specific and General
So for December, I am at just under twelve thousand words of a twenty five thousand word goal. Slightly less than halfway there, with more than two-thirds of the time gone. Anemic as my progression towards my goal has been, I still think that it has been an essential motivating factor this month. I mentioned work business in my last post, and it didn't abate at any point. I'm now away on my christmas break, and I intend to catch up quickly. And, because I have a goal, I know where I ... Read more »
December Goal Update
I intended to post here more this month, maybe even including an actual article to get back into posting thoughts on writing. I even have some new ones on viewpoint I probably should articulate. However, my day job is as an accountant, and its year end, so my out of work energy levels have been low enough that writing is hard, and nothing else is happening! Ten days in, how do I stand? I've written 6,171 words out of a goal of 25,000 for the month. Not up the standard I was making for ... Read more »