Category: goals
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Goal setting—a fiction writer’s how to
I didn’t used to like creating specific goals. It always felt artificial and a recipe for disappointment. Because, sure, I could set a goal to write XYZ, but when I fell short I thought the fact of falling short would overwhelm any sense of accomplishm…
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Feedback
Ever wished that markets would provide feedback about why they did not select the submitted story
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Distractions
It seems that my blog rolls in a cycle I talk about goals, targets, what my plans are and how I’m going to achieve them. The next week I’m back making excuses, explaining why nothing came to fruition, accepting failure and doing better the next time. (I swear this time I’ve got a really good…
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ZERO
Just thought I would throw out an update (Mainly because it is relevant to my last two posts) On Monday aiming for my target of 500 words I wrote the magnificent figure of zero. Yes you did read correctly I wrote zero words. Absolutely nothing. Zilch. Sweet fanny Adams. I failed, but today though I’m…
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Targets
This one is going to be super quick. I’ve stumbled over (been shown) an important consideration for any perspective writer, freelancer, storyteller, blogger or any other creative person. I’ve rambled on about setting goals and how they help me. I’ve talked about making them manageable, dealing with failure, overcoming blocks and a host of other…
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A BIG FAT F
So how did I do with the remainder of NaNoWriMo? (The title may have given it away). Not well, to put it delicately. In fact it was my least productive month of writing for the entire year. I had goals, targets, plots, characters, I had four stories I wanted to write and I wrote absolutely…
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More Than I Can Chew
All right this is going to be a short one. So first up how did I do on my monthly goal? Am I writing chapter 10. Yes I am. Unfortunately for me when writing the previous post I mislabelled the chapters. I was already writing chapter 10 and I was supposed to be in chapter…
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I like being lazy…
Good. You are back. Or you have just arrived. Eh, either way, good.Let’s get down to brass tacks first.Word Count: 42,741 (Yeah yeah… only 3k more than last time)Progression: Actually, my progression is my topic. No, I will not write about writers block, fucking stupid. There are god knows how many things already written about…