2010 Writing Goals
January 13th 2010 20:23
I kept my writing goal for 2009 vague. Apart from my NaNo novel, I didn't write any fiction. As I wrote a substantial amount of freelance articles, it doesn't bother me too much. Still, it's not how I imagined my writing balance sheet would look a year ago.
The best way to make sure it doesn't happen again in 2010 is to set myself a few fiction writing goals and make them public. So here they are:
- Write a novel first draft in November.
- Write at least two, ideally three blog posts.
- Write a short story every month.
The novel is going to be easy. I know this sounds arrogant, but this year will be my ninth NaNoWriMo. I won every year since 2002. I know I can write the required amount of words in 30 days, or in half the time if I have to, because I've done it before.
Blogging regularly, I suspect, might be a lot harder. I have a history of neglecting this blog and I hope to rewrite it. The reason why I take part in NaBloPoMo this month is to force myself to blog daily. After that, writing a post at least twice but ideally thrice (wow, nobody ever uses thrice anymore) a week should feel like I'm slacking. Fingers crossed.
I used to write short stories. Then I discovered writing novels isn't as though as it seemed and I jumped story form, never looking back to my abandoned short stories. Then I had an idea the other day for a story and I quickly realised that there wasn't enough substance for a novel. I started writing it anyway and decided that I'll write a short story every month and submit them to magazines and anthologies.
In addition to these writing goals I have one more writing-related goal:
- Revise my 2008 novel.
In between revising the novel and writing a short story a month, I suppose I'll find enough topics for three blog posts a week.
The best way to make sure it doesn't happen again in 2010 is to set myself a few fiction writing goals and make them public. So here they are:
- Write a novel first draft in November.
- Write at least two, ideally three blog posts.
- Write a short story every month.
The novel is going to be easy. I know this sounds arrogant, but this year will be my ninth NaNoWriMo. I won every year since 2002. I know I can write the required amount of words in 30 days, or in half the time if I have to, because I've done it before.
Blogging regularly, I suspect, might be a lot harder. I have a history of neglecting this blog and I hope to rewrite it. The reason why I take part in NaBloPoMo this month is to force myself to blog daily. After that, writing a post at least twice but ideally thrice (wow, nobody ever uses thrice anymore) a week should feel like I'm slacking. Fingers crossed.
I used to write short stories. Then I discovered writing novels isn't as though as it seemed and I jumped story form, never looking back to my abandoned short stories. Then I had an idea the other day for a story and I quickly realised that there wasn't enough substance for a novel. I started writing it anyway and decided that I'll write a short story every month and submit them to magazines and anthologies.
In addition to these writing goals I have one more writing-related goal:
- Revise my 2008 novel.
In between revising the novel and writing a short story a month, I suppose I'll find enough topics for three blog posts a week.
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