An annual tradition here at F_D 1, let’s kick-off the year with a full disclosure of goals. Rather than set vague “resolutions” and lame half-promises to yourself, why not think of the new year as an opportunity for a little personal growth? A couple of little benchmarks to set your aggressive little sights on throughout […]
2009 has come and gone. Every year I make some commitments to myself–be those to improve myself in some way ot simply to challenge myself–and at the end of every year, I take stock of those accomplishments. 2009 was the third year that those goals were featured “full disclosure” style here on F_D. Where did […]
July, August, September: have you really gone so quickly hither? I hardly knew Summer before it had colored itself with Autumn’s crayons! Oh well… Let’s see where we landed goals-wise: Write at least three hours per week. Getting better, almost back to “peak” output…? August and September were clearly the strongest so far this year. […]
April through June: gone as quick as they came. Shall we check in on the goals I set for myself? I think we shall. Write at least three hours per week. To echo my sentiments from last quarter: not a banner year. I have hardly scratched out a few incoherent words let alone incoherent sentences. […]
January through March, come and gone. Where did I land for the goals I’d set for myself for 2009? Well, it’s been kind of a mixed bag. But mostly a bag with a big hole in the bottom. Write at least three hours per week. This is not going to be a banner year for […]
A little late in posting (compared to last year) but worth posting for the full disclosure aspect of it all. (Plus Mike said he wanted to see them.) As before, they’re like New Year’s Resolutions except measurable and realistic &c. and not vague. It’s the vagueness that’s cause for so much failure and abandonment, I […]
2008 was the second year that we tracked some SMART goals here at F_D for its humble narrator. Our accomplishments during 2007 were excellent overall, so we decided to repeat the experiment. We mixed it up a bit for 2008, tweaking the individual goals, adding some new ones, removing other irrelevant ones… And 2008 mixed […]
Personal goals for 2007: let’s see where we are after Q3: Write approx. 80,000 new words of fiction. …with at least 40,000 words of “totally new” fiction. As I updated this goal once already this year, I won’t bother updating it again. That would seem like cheating. That said, I think I may have picked […]
Personal goals for 2007: doing pretty well last quarter; let’s see where we are now: Write approx. 80,000 new words of fiction. This is updated from “write another 80,000 word draft of my novel”. Good news, re-writing the goal helped me get motivated. As if to say “all of my writing counts”. Bad news, I’m […]
Back in January, we put forth a few personal goals for 2007. Let’s see where we stand, eh? Write another draft of my novel. We’d written this up as “another draft of at least 80,000 words with at least 40,000 words worth of new material.” To date, I’ve written 6,475 words. Maybe 3,500 of those […]