Writing Resolutions for 2013??
Did anyone here set any writing related resolutions for themselves this year? I did. I want to get at least one novel length work written, edited and published. Maybe a collection of poetry as well & a collection of flash fiction stories written.
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's tha' all!? Wot y gonna do with the rest of the year then?Crich70 wrote:...one novel length work written, edited and published. Maybe a collection of poetry as well & a collection of flash fiction stories written.
Happy New Year, and Good Luck with your endeavours
Vic
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vic-k wrote:'s tha' all!? Wot y gonna do with the rest of the year then?Crich70 wrote:...one novel length work written, edited and published. Maybe a collection of poetry as well & a collection of flash fiction stories written.
Happy New Year, and Good Luck with your endeavours
Vic
Thanks and the same to you. If I manage to get those projects done I will probably go on to try some more. And certainly there is NaNo 2013 to look forward to.
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Well, I've not gone so far as to make concrete, quantifiable and verifiable resolutions(*), but I am making an effort to be more focused in my creative endeavours.
Including, but not in any way restricted to:
- Using time to actually write that I might otherwise have spent thinking about writing.
- Being more diverse in my choice of projects.
- Being more diverse in my reading (including authors and genres I probably wouldn't normally have tried).
I'm also going to give the blog thing a go, because obviously it's hugely important to a great number of people(**) that they know my highly opiniated views on whatever minor issue loosely associated with writing is occupying my mental bandwidth at any given moment.
(*) Like, say, writing at least 3,000 words a day, or restricting myself to just the one adjective per noun.
(**) That number is two.
Including, but not in any way restricted to:
- Using time to actually write that I might otherwise have spent thinking about writing.
- Being more diverse in my choice of projects.
- Being more diverse in my reading (including authors and genres I probably wouldn't normally have tried).
I'm also going to give the blog thing a go, because obviously it's hugely important to a great number of people(**) that they know my highly opiniated views on whatever minor issue loosely associated with writing is occupying my mental bandwidth at any given moment.
(*) Like, say, writing at least 3,000 words a day, or restricting myself to just the one adjective per noun.
(**) That number is two.
'Listen, some quiet night, when you've shirked your work that day. Do you hear
that distant, almost inaudible clicking sound? That's one of your
competitors, working away in the night in
Paris or London or Erie, PA.'
that distant, almost inaudible clicking sound? That's one of your
competitors, working away in the night in
Paris or London or Erie, PA.'
pigfender wrote:I'm also going to give the blog thing a go
dear lord, no.
i am happy to give feedback on short passages.
be warned, though. my feedback can be blunt... always well intentioned and aimed at helping you improve, but possibly more honest than you are used to.
as such, i will only chip in if directly invited.
be warned, though. my feedback can be blunt... always well intentioned and aimed at helping you improve, but possibly more honest than you are used to.
as such, i will only chip in if directly invited.
I am going to enjoy beer more, worry about things I cannot change less, sleep better, eat better, exercise better and in doing all of these things I think it will affect my writing in a positive way.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is still dead.
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Foxtrot wrote:I am going to learn how to complete cryptic crosswords.
Probably the closest I will get to writing something with words in a meaningful order that is not work related.
"Lorelle on Wordpress", the site ranked as 29,294 in the world for traffic (Literatureandlatte.com is 47,126 for comparison purposes) and with 15,199 regular subscribers posted a copy of a piece of fiction you helped write saying that we
shook the writing world with an innovative “Write a book in a day” project.
And that's just one link that I stumbled on by accident. Who knows what else is out there to get people to read what you wrote.
You did somethin' cool, is all I'm sayin'.
My writing-related goals for 2013:
-- write at least two tech books and two novels this year
-- blog & otherwise promote the books that are currently available and upcoming
-- attend two writing conferences or retreats, more if I can manage
-- spend less time aimlessly surfing and more time actively working
-- delegate household nonsense so I can carve out more writing hours
-- send the twins off to college in the fall, which will free up a LOT of time!
-- write at least two tech books and two novels this year
-- blog & otherwise promote the books that are currently available and upcoming
-- attend two writing conferences or retreats, more if I can manage
-- spend less time aimlessly surfing and more time actively working
-- delegate household nonsense so I can carve out more writing hours
-- send the twins off to college in the fall, which will free up a LOT of time!
JennK wrote:-- send the twins off to college in the fall, which will free up a LOT of time!
Good luck. I sent my twins off to university a few months ago, and I'm still waiting for the free time to materialise!
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My resolution is to finish my pean to one of my favourite cyber buddies. Someone who has taken all the maligning and character assassinations I've aimed at her over the years, and run with it, making it very chucklesome in the doing. Stymied only by the weirdest set of coincidences,...even by my standards 
Made me think perhaps I shouldn't bother with it.
Since it's a declarAtion of affection and reSpect, and she having the final say as to wheTher or not it gets posted, I've decided to bite the bullet and finish it..mind you, it'll pRobably be when I've read the complete works of Herman MelvIlle and Nathaniel Hawthorn. Free time seems to be at a premium...Dunit!!?
Vic
Made me think perhaps I shouldn't bother with it. Since it's a declarAtion of affection and reSpect, and she having the final say as to wheTher or not it gets posted, I've decided to bite the bullet and finish it..mind you, it'll pRobably be when I've read the complete works of Herman MelvIlle and Nathaniel Hawthorn. Free time seems to be at a premium...Dunit!!?
Vic
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What happened to the "D"?
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xiamenese wrote:What happened to the "D"?:twisted:....vic-k wrote:Dunit!!?
As a professional, you, are your one and only asset. Without integrity you are worthless, but with it, you are priceless.