September Goals
September 3rd 2009 03:58
Goal setting is incredibly important for a writer. You need to have clear, concise goals that are achievable, and you need to know how to reach those goals, and make each step its own miniature goal.
Personally I've got a couple Big Goals which are more long-term and several smaller goals which mostly build towards reaching those Big Goals. For example, one of my Big Goals is to finish the rough draft of one of the books in the Jihad series by January 1st, 2010. Smaller goals reaching towards that include worldbuilding, character building and outlining.
Here are my writing goals for September:
1. Blog consistently (at least every other day)
2. Get the poem count for Bleed up to 40 (I'm at 23 right now I believe)
3. Edit The Beginning myth for the Jihad world
4. Write 5 pages background notes on the original formation of Appollinia (a kingdom for Jihad)
5. Write 5 pages background notes on the old Elvish kingdom (Elwin's time and his son's time)
6. Write up a 3-page character bio for Elwin, the first Elvish king.
7. Write up 3 pages about the Phoenix (an old Goddess who is found in very early Elvish myth)
8. Write up 3 pages about the Demon (later named Elric; the main evil God)
9. Write up 3 pages about the Fatalis Intarnati (can't really explain these guys here)
10. Brainstorm possible plots in the Jihad world
11. Flesh out one of the adopted plots stolen from the Nano forums.
12. Write one chapter of A Cutter's Journey.
In order to reach all of these goals, I am enforcing a minimum productivity level of one worldbuilding page per day.
Also... I've decided to, at least for the moment, abandon Eternia Falling. Why? Because although I'm familiar with the characters and the world, I'm more familiar with the world 10, 000 years after the fact. I'm not very familiar with the world during Eternia's time. I need to do some mapping, some culture-building for the time period, things like that, before I can properly write the novel. So I'm abandoning that project for the moment, leaving me with more free time to accomplish other goals. Worldbuilding for that will begin again December first.
What are your writing goals for September?
Personally I've got a couple Big Goals which are more long-term and several smaller goals which mostly build towards reaching those Big Goals. For example, one of my Big Goals is to finish the rough draft of one of the books in the Jihad series by January 1st, 2010. Smaller goals reaching towards that include worldbuilding, character building and outlining.
Here are my writing goals for September:
1. Blog consistently (at least every other day)
2. Get the poem count for Bleed up to 40 (I'm at 23 right now I believe)
3. Edit The Beginning myth for the Jihad world
4. Write 5 pages background notes on the original formation of Appollinia (a kingdom for Jihad)
5. Write 5 pages background notes on the old Elvish kingdom (Elwin's time and his son's time)
6. Write up a 3-page character bio for Elwin, the first Elvish king.
7. Write up 3 pages about the Phoenix (an old Goddess who is found in very early Elvish myth)
8. Write up 3 pages about the Demon (later named Elric; the main evil God)
9. Write up 3 pages about the Fatalis Intarnati (can't really explain these guys here)
10. Brainstorm possible plots in the Jihad world
11. Flesh out one of the adopted plots stolen from the Nano forums.
12. Write one chapter of A Cutter's Journey.
In order to reach all of these goals, I am enforcing a minimum productivity level of one worldbuilding page per day.
Also... I've decided to, at least for the moment, abandon Eternia Falling. Why? Because although I'm familiar with the characters and the world, I'm more familiar with the world 10, 000 years after the fact. I'm not very familiar with the world during Eternia's time. I need to do some mapping, some culture-building for the time period, things like that, before I can properly write the novel. So I'm abandoning that project for the moment, leaving me with more free time to accomplish other goals. Worldbuilding for that will begin again December first.
What are your writing goals for September?
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