Happy New Year, Writing Goals and Other Meaningless Crap

[asphaltcowgrrl]

So, first and foremost, Happy New Year!  Congrats on making it through one more revolution around the sun!  Let me just say, there were a few times when I wasn't certain I was going to make it through last year.

But, thankfully I did, becuase today is a rather momentous occasion.  My baby is now thirteen.  Holy crap, how did that happen?  Where did my little girl go?



(And let's not even get into the fact that my other child will be FIFTEEN in a month.)

Lastly, I figure I ought to put my writing goals into print somewhere, so I can be held accountable.  This last year, I wrote over 240,000 words and posted a little over 220,000 to my journal here.  That's actually pretty good for me, to be quite honest.  So, I figure a good set of goals for me this coming year would be these:

1. Write 300k words over the course of the  year.  An increase of almost 50k.

2. Post 250k words over the course of the year.  An increase of almost 25k.

3. Finish at least one full-length fic in my new original world.  This might be rough, because I have a lot of research to do, but I think it's possible.

4.  I don't know... yet.  But something.  I want to do something new this year.

Wish me luck!

Comments

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

That's right - I remember your post about that. Thankfully, I have a couple years before I have to deal with that. My older girl will be 15 next month. UGH. (Aw, thank you - she can be moody, but she's a good kid.)

Thank you! It's a lot for me, so I was happy. I made sure not to up the goals by too much, just in case. I think that sounds like a good goal though. Write as much as you can, post as much as you're able, and you'll be fine. Either way, writing is writing, no matter how many words you make.

Hah! Yeah, I totally know what you mean by that. You have the best of intentions and then life intervenes.