Snowflake Challenge #2: Goals
Jan. 5th, 2024 08:43 pmSnowflake Challenge #2 is to create some goals for the upcoming year. So, I'm going to make a few goals for writing:
For my 2024 Monthly Short Pieces:
- Don't miss any this year--no skips or gaps. 12 MSPs for all 12 months.
- Each MSP will have at least 1000 words, every month.
- At least two MSPs will have at least two drafts.
- I have a terrible habit of treating a first draft as a final draft--and while often my first drafts are good enough to publish, they're not as good as they could be, by a long shot. (In addition, on the rare occasion that I do write more than one draft, the story can end up changing drastically, and for the better.) I want to get better at actually doing drafting and revising.
For other writing:
- I want to restart work on my Eldritch Rei AU WIP (probably including rearranging drafts and documents) and publish at least the first chapter of the first work sometime this year! The Eldritch Rei AU is a huge, huge project--I'm not sure on chapter numbers, but it'll end up a series with at least three or four works, and at least two of those works will likely have over thirty chapters (which is long for a chronic oneshot writer like me). It's a project that'll likely take years. But it'll never get started if I don't take that critical first step.
- I also want to complete And the Universe Said "I Guess We're Doing This The Hard Way", a much shorter work that I did for the Natshig Big Bang last year.
- Finally: I want to finish my rewrite of Wild Magic, which was one of my MSPs for September 2023 after skipping July and August. It's good, it's one of my longest works, but I think I can do better, especially with this idea.
Of course, there could be some Life Things getting in the way: I'm taking a heavy load for this semester so that I can graduate college in April, and then I'll have to move and find a job, along with all of the assorted stuff that goes with transitioning from college culture to full-time-job culture. Still, I've got a whole year (and ADHD meds), so these goals seem pretty in reach.