I’ve spent the better part of the week finishing up a giant chart to track my progress on my writing goals. I’m hoping this is a good investment, because I certainly didn’t get any actual writing done. Here it is!
Here it is, in all its glory
I’m cynical about most things, but when it comes to New Year’s Resolutions, a thing most people are cynical about, I’m genuinely in favor. You should always strive for self improvement, no matter what the avenue.
Earlier, I went through my 2011 resolutions for writing and found I had come up lame. I made three, and all of them centered around a single goal: write with more discipline, consistently. I’m better now than I was, but not nearly where I need to be to make it.
In 2012, I’ll be spending a lot more time tracking my progress of my goals, as I go, something I didn’t do at all in 2011. It’s the main reason people fail with resolutions, they don’t hold themselves accountable. They don’t monitor their progress. I didn’t either. I failed.
So the theme this year is the same. Write with more discipline, consistently. How will I get there? Read the rest of this entry »
I’m a big believer in self improvement. So it’s no surprise that I like New Year’s resolutions. It’s even less of a surprise that I usually fail at them, like most anyone else. I thought it might be interesting, now that I have this here fancy blog, to go back and track my progress and how I did on my writing resolutions. After all, you can’t expect to achieve a goal without measuring how you’re doing.
Not to spoil the fun, but I failed. On all of them, I’m sure. But what’s also important to me is that I didn’t give up on them and tried to make progress, any progress, throughout the year. It’s one thing to fail, it’s another thing entirely to quit.
Let’s go back and recap my 2011 writing resolutions and see how I did, with a few reminders of what I had written back then. Read the rest of this entry »
A little while back, this article was making the rounds. And it’s clear why. 10,000 words a day is an incredible feat, especially regularly. That’s an unbelievable, prolific pace.
The tips in that article are good ones, and definitely worth taking seriously, even if you can’t hit that same output. But the reason I really bring it up is for a broader point–it’s important to mix things up in your writing routine in an effort to find ways to make things easier. Read the rest of this entry »
On the 7th I posted about a new roadmap for an author looking to get published. For years there was a pretty standard path to follow, outlined in that post, which has changed. It seems like everyone wants to sell you an absolute method to getting published, one way or the other, but the best option may lay in between. I’ll outline step two here tonight.
STEP TWO:
You’re writing. You finished something and you’ve done your homework (rereading, editing, revising, workshopping) and if you followed this road map, you’ve sent it to an agent. And the second step is where the road forks a bit and you have some choices in getting to your destination. Read the rest of this entry »
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