Now that we are past the New Year, I am thinking about what I would like to accomplish over the next year. I feel happiest when I get things done and feel that I have achieved something. Goals are not just amorphous ambitions, they can be the yardstick to measure success as defined by oneself. The more concrete and attainable while still being achievable they are, the better. Further, as I recently read on D. Thomas Minton's blog goals can be set at any time. Often New Year's Resolutions feel like they are made more out of sense of tradition than from honest conviction. If one wants to change, any time is a good time to make that decision and do it. I have also been thinking about how if I just keep making small and steady progress that this can accumulate and add up. So here are my goals from now until January 21, 2013:
1. Keep writing on this blog. Write one post for every day of the year.
2. Write an additional 500 words per day or edit and revise 1000 words. (By the way, that's a cumulative total of 182500 words if I write 500 words per day.)
3. Write at least two stories that exceed 6000 words.
4. Send out 10 stories and try to get them published.
5. Post one recipe per week on this blog because this forces me to take my recipes beyond experimentation and get them in a readable format for my cookbook.
6. Read 12 fiction books.
So what are your writing goals?
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You are super-ambitious!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to apply to some workshops, finish revising this book, and flesh out a reasonable draft of the next project, currently a half-written mess.
I sat yesterday afternoon and thought about these goals. I wanted to make them things that I thought were realistic and yet challenging. I also wanted them to be things that I enjoy doing. I typically can do a blog post in an hour or so and I really enjoy reading poetry and doing research on some of the artists. I have been reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin and she talks in there about using small amounts of time cumulatively and I think I can use this to write more.
DeleteYou have some pretty ambitious goals as well! I am trying to work my way up to writing a novel-- that's why I am increasing the word count on the stories I write and set a goal for 2- 6K stories.