Thanks to the example of Crystal Cook on her blog Write Because You Must, I'm going to start setting weekly goals. They seem more manageable than monthly or quarterly goals because I tend to procrastinate. I commend all of you who manage to write 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000+ words per day, but I'm not there yet. As much as I'd love to be able to write that much, I know that if I set my goal too high, I'll give up before I even begin. Besides, I haven't written since the March Marathon on Throwing Up Words, so any word count will be better than my current situation!
This week's goals:
- Write 500 words a day for at least 5 days on my current WIP.
- Work on revisions for chapters 9-11 on my previous manuscript.
- Finish critiquing a writing partner's manuscript before my writing group meets on Saturday.
- Submit online.
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These are great goals! I find setting weekly goals works best for me too. I posted my weekly goals yesterday and now I need to read over them and get to work. Good luck this week.
Look at you go! I do think setting daily, weekly and monthly goals really helps keep a writer on task.
Good job.
That's a good idea, weekly goals. I should do that too. I always have a pretty general monthly goal, like, "work on this novel." I might try weekly goals!
Hey thanks for the shout out!! :) :)
I'm glad to see you set your goals, go you!! you will make it, just wait and see :) and here's another smile because you're awesome :)
Lovely blog. Keep up the incredible work!
I try to set weekly goals as well. Usually, they're in the form of chapters: finish these chapters by Sunday and edit these. I also try to reserve one day to just read the manuscript with a clear mind.
I'm glad you had fun and followers from the Blogfest. I was impressed by the variety and depth of work everywhere.
I plan to set some goals, just as soon as I can take a breath again. I've been holding my breath for weeks now. I think no news is good news.
I am like you in that if I set my goals too high, I psyche myself out. I was on a roll of writing 1000/words a day, five days a week so I decided to up it to 2000/words a day...I ended up not a word for almost two weeks! Now I am grateful if I can hit 1000/day....so start manageable for sure!
Good luck on achieving your goals! I'm also envious of those who write 1000+ words a day, but I'm a very slow writer, so my current goal is also 500 words a day. It seems very little, but in 6 months, I'll have a novel. :]
Great goals. Good luck achieving them. :)
Dude, I go day by day. It's all I can do. Weekly? I might crawl into bed and never get out. Right now I'm going for 1000 words/day. So far, it's working.
Finding a steady pace and schedule that works for YOU is the trick.
Consistency is important to finishing projects.
Go You!!
I'm in Scriptfrenzy. Gotta write 100 pages by the end of the month! Yikes. Been awfully busy, so I'm going to have to run off and hide so I can write.
Good Goals! Maybe I should do something like that to keep me on track.
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You have a beautiful blog! I set weekly goals for myself, too. Best of luck reaching yours!!
These are wonderful goals! Lisa and I are in the brink of goal-setting ourselves. We need to buckle down.
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