Category: writerly resolutions
Having gotten relatively clear of my depression, I seem to be finally being a bit more productive. The new story is almost ready for workshopping and I hope to have revisions done later today or, worst case, tomorrow. Bunches of rejections over the course of the month, but also one acceptance, my first of the […]
So I’m climbing out of the depression, although not quite as fast as I’d like. Most of my writing this month has been on the working on the new story, which I have managed to finish the rewrite on which seems to have expanded the story by a bit over 10%. I only had two […]
My big revelation this month was that wasting time playing games online isn’t the cause of my not writing so much as a symptom of the cause which is that I’ve been kind of in a depressed state for most of this year. That said, I did manage to at least complete the revisions that […]
Another disappointing month for progress. I’ve been a bit more attentive to my mental state though and I’ve noticed a few things: With the fixed-goal approach, I ended up being reluctant to get started when the daily amount of writing I had to do crossed a certain threshold and I ended up doing nothing instead, […]
Yet another disappointing month of little progress. A nasty flu at the beginning of the month and a new job haven’t helped. but mostly it’s indolence and procrastination to blame. New Novel. Ideally I’d have at least finished a chapter to be on pace this month. Not so much. I wrote 2037 words over the […]
Well, I’ve at least gotten better at Terraforming Mars, although there is some better progress on the resolutions: New Novel Get two chapters finished. The revisions on the first of the two chapters was finished, but I only have 596 words of a second chapter written. Goal for March–April: Finish this chapter plus one more. We, […]
As I try my new bi-monthly system of resolutions, I find myself falling short of my goals. I wish I could attribute it to circumstances beyond my control but largely it’s a consequence of having gotten addicted to Terraforming Mars on Board Game Arena. I really need to exercise some self control, especially since I […]
Towards the end of last year I had to do some retrenching on my resolutions and having set a two-month plan to close out the year, it occurs to me that two months is a good time period for goals, short enough that I can’t let myself delay too much and long enough that there’s […]
So looking back on the year, I set three goals: Complete draft of the new novel Between indolence, deciding that the last novel could use another round of revision and ill-advisedly beginning a new large fiction project, this didn’t happen. I set an end-of-year goal at the beginning of November to get two new chapters […]