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

[skyesurfer12.livejournal.com]

I really like the fact that you've put these out there. I have one in the reading arena but I haven't really thought about the writing ones.... word quantity has never been an issue, but you may know that ;)

Happy Birthday to your baby! I still scratch my head as to where time goes....

[kaige68.livejournal.com]

*fingers crossed*

You can totally do this!!

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

OMG! I totally know what you mean about the time thing. My eldest turned 18 this year and left school. I just can't wrap my head around that! And my youngest will be 13 this year too, so I know where you're at! (she looks like a sweetie, btw, hope she remains it through teen years!)

Wow, your word count is incredible, but I'm sure you can make the new raised goals! Good luck. I've had to revise my own goals down because 2014 was a bit of a failure and I just don't want to let things get out of hand. I'm aiming for 100K written, and as much posted as gets posted. I will be glad if I manage to finish some of the (far too) many WIPs and don't start any more!

And if I could just get on with the jobs I set myself for my time off work (already five days in and no words and not nearly enough jobs done before I go away at the weekend) that would be great!