So many words. So little time.
Tag: goals
I didn’t write any fiction this week. My brain is not cooperating with that currently.
But, I did write a fair amount of non-fiction this week:
-four book reviews
-three staff profile blogs for the internship +
-finishing a super long blog post +
-transcribing an interview for another blog post for the internship.
Hopefully, my brain will cooperate with the fiction-writing next week. Turning over some ideas in life is taking up all its energy right now.
I decreased my fiction-writing goal to one session a week this week. Which is…sad, I know, but with things so stressful lately, I’ve needed to put resting and de-stressing at the top of my list.
And it worked, more or less. I got in my writing session on Saturday. I also wrote a long piece for the internship and a shorter personal profile as well.
More importantly, I survived the unusually chaotic and stressful workweek, so there’s that.
I got in three writing sessions for the week, for a total of 2,250 words. I only completed one writing lesson this week, however, but…work was tough this week, despite being off on Monday.
-Tuesday: worked 3.5 hours at my day job + 4 hours at my internship.
-Wednesday: worked 14 hours at the day job.
-Thursday: 4 hours at the internship.
-Friday: worked almost 17 hours at the day job (Yeah, that sucked as much as it sounds like, especially since I have to do it again tomorrow. )
I’m hoping to catch up on that missed writing lesson this week.
I had another good writing week! Three days, two 10-minute sessions each day, for a little over 2,250 words.
I know that’s chump change to my old daily word counts, but I’m happy with the consistency.
I also outlined five scenes and completed two writing lessons, so I hit all my writing goals for the week!
I had a good writing week. I got all my words, but I changed my sessions just a bit to accommodate my schedule: three sessions on Tuesday, one after work on Wednesday, and two on Saturday.
I also outlined five scenes and did two writing lessons this week, so I hit all my writing goals!
Not only did I get in three writing days this week—a bit over my goal of 2,250 words—but I also finished up two lessons in HTWAN! So I hit both goals for the week!
Writing-wise, I’m still wandering, as I have only a bare idea of plot, but my goal for this week—in addition to word count—is to outline five scenes (sentence per scene), so I have some idea where I’m going. I know from experience that I wander when I don’t outline, so it’s time to correct that.
Words. No wandering.
This week was crazy busy. Seriously. But, I still got in two writing days!
About 1,500 words of fiction this week. (Ah…10,000-word days are such a fond/unbelievable memory now. Thank you, NaNo!). I also wrote five book reviews this week (three of those were written and scheduled on Thursday, before I left for my conference.)
For accountability purposes: in addition to three writing days this week (or 2,200 words), my goal is also to get two lessons done in HTWAN, because I am woefully behind.
How was everyone else’s writing this week?
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had/is having a good holiday weekend.
This is, of course, the obligatory re-hash of my 2016 goals, as well as a public declaration of my goals for 2017.
In 2016, my goals were:
Writing:
1) Finish Witches HTRYN. Didn’t happen. I started work on it, and realized that I have to re-write the story from scratch (mostly).
2) Finish 1st draft of Siren Song. Done! (More or less.)
3) Finish 1st draft of The Fall. Nope. I did write some of it, but not much.
4) Start Camelot Done! (To the tune of 1 chapter, a sort-of prologue, and some brainstorming.
5) Revise Casting Shadows. Didn’t even look at it.
6) Finish copyediting classes and make X dollars at it per month. Also no, although I did work on the classes some.
7) Have 500 followers on this blog. Only up to 314.
8) Have 200 followers on my personal blog. Only up to 199.
Reading:
1) Read Gone with the Wind. Done!
2) Read 1 book per month from my TBR shelf. Done!
3) Read all books on the reading list for my American Women Writers class (8 total). Done!
4) Read one classic per month. Done!
5) Read one book of poetry. Done!
6) Read 2 books per month to review. Done!
7) Read one inspirational book per month. Done!
8) Read 75 books total. Done! Actually, I read 128 books—WAY over my goal—which I’m pretty happy about. You can check out my books on the 2016 Goodreads challenge here.
Writing:
1) Finish draft of The Fall.
2) Finish draft of Camelot.
3) Finish Witches revision.
4) Self-pub something or find agent.
5) Revise Chasing Shadows.
6) Publish/sub Chasing Shadows.
7) Do/win NaNo (with the Southern Fic story).
Reading
1) Read one book per month set in a different culture or by an author from a different culture.
2) Read 100 books.
3) Read one classic per month.
4) Read one spiritual book per month.
5) Review 5 books per month.
6) Read one book from TBR pile every other month.
7) Read Battlefield Earth.
Tomorrow Is Another Day 