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I’ve been writing and rewriting the same novel for longer than I care to admit. I’m too embarrassed to tell you how long, so lets just call it my War and Peace, and leave it at that.
I have come to view it as a novel with training wheels. I didn’t know what I was doing when I set out to be a writer and naively chose to start with writing a novel first, instead diving into short stories. It would’ve been so much easier to learn the craft with fewer pages to write, but that’s not what I did, and it won’t help me to get where I’m going, which is to FINISH THIS BEAST. Or, at the very least, finish this draft in 80 days. Yeah, I’d be happy with that. Then I just might be able to take those training wheels off.
So I humbly submit my goals for this round, knowing that I will be modifying them sometime in the future:
Ultimate Goal: Finish the current draft of Oghalon.
HOW TO DO THIS:
1. Write everyday, with one day off (this is what Steven King does), even if it is just a scribbled notation (everyone has bad days). The goal is to train myself to write everyday.
2. Start at 250 words per day and increase until I get to 1,000 words per day. Stay in the range of 250-1,000 words. As I get closer to the wire, increase the payload (I can hear my typing fingers groaning already)
OTHER RELATED GOALS:
3. Read 4 books on writing and/or other novels in my genre.
4. ON my day off, I will illustrate the pictures for my novel. That will be my illustration day.
That’s it for now.
Good luck to everyone in this Row80!