Interviewing The Great And New Years Thoughts
December 22nd 2009 01:58
I'm sure some of you have heard of Robert J. Sawyer, a Canadian Science Fiction writer. Well, Sawyer lives near me, in Mississauga, a mini-city that is just a little ways outside of Toronto. And today, I'm meeting him, and I get to interview him!
For my Careers class I have to interview someone who has a career in a field that I'm interested in, and so I'm interviewing Sawyer. I'm really excited about this, and if he gives me his permission, you guys will see the interview here tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'd like to talk briefly about 2010.
I haven't got all of my goals worked out for 2010, but I do have some of them ironed out, so here are the goals that I've picked so far:
~Rewrite Phoenix Falling; this is likely to be a bit nightmarish
~Run a one or two week workshop on this blog every month
~Start a Fictional Worlds website complete with best of page and newsletter
~Write 1, 000, 000 words of fiction
~Start building a new world and write at least one non-Jihad novel.
What are your goals? Will you be revising the book you wrote in November, or a different book that you wrote in 2009? Will you be starting something new? Building a world?
As a writer, it's important that you set yourself goals. You might not finish them when you want to, but having a list and having a number of them checked off will prove to you that you are working towards what you want, that you are making progress, and at the end of 2010 you'll be able to look back on your life and say 'this is what I've done this year'.
When you're picking your goals, know that life can and will get in the way. You probably won't get everything done that you want to get done. But you can at least make progress on everything.
Make your goals realistic for a one year time period. Is your goal to revise a novel? That's realistic. Now divide it into chunks. For example, during January and February you want to organize your novel and make sure you know where you want the story to go and how you want the characters to grow. Then in March participate in NaNoEdMo and spend as much time as possible revising your novel, preferrably with some help from critiques. Put it aside for a month and then go back to it. Repeat.
Make your goals for the year, and then divide them into monthly goals, smaller goals. Put your list of goals somewhere where you know you will see them at least almost every day, if not every single day. Check them off as you finish them. Give yourself stickers. That kind of good stuff.
For now, think about what you want to get done, and what you think you can realistically accomplish. And in the New Year, let's all work towards our goals together.
What do you want to do next year?
For my Careers class I have to interview someone who has a career in a field that I'm interested in, and so I'm interviewing Sawyer. I'm really excited about this, and if he gives me his permission, you guys will see the interview here tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'd like to talk briefly about 2010.
I haven't got all of my goals worked out for 2010, but I do have some of them ironed out, so here are the goals that I've picked so far:
~Rewrite Phoenix Falling; this is likely to be a bit nightmarish
~Run a one or two week workshop on this blog every month
~Start a Fictional Worlds website complete with best of page and newsletter
~Write 1, 000, 000 words of fiction
~Start building a new world and write at least one non-Jihad novel.
What are your goals? Will you be revising the book you wrote in November, or a different book that you wrote in 2009? Will you be starting something new? Building a world?
As a writer, it's important that you set yourself goals. You might not finish them when you want to, but having a list and having a number of them checked off will prove to you that you are working towards what you want, that you are making progress, and at the end of 2010 you'll be able to look back on your life and say 'this is what I've done this year'.
When you're picking your goals, know that life can and will get in the way. You probably won't get everything done that you want to get done. But you can at least make progress on everything.
Make your goals realistic for a one year time period. Is your goal to revise a novel? That's realistic. Now divide it into chunks. For example, during January and February you want to organize your novel and make sure you know where you want the story to go and how you want the characters to grow. Then in March participate in NaNoEdMo and spend as much time as possible revising your novel, preferrably with some help from critiques. Put it aside for a month and then go back to it. Repeat.
Make your goals for the year, and then divide them into monthly goals, smaller goals. Put your list of goals somewhere where you know you will see them at least almost every day, if not every single day. Check them off as you finish them. Give yourself stickers. That kind of good stuff.
For now, think about what you want to get done, and what you think you can realistically accomplish. And in the New Year, let's all work towards our goals together.
What do you want to do next year?
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