Augment your work count goals with percentage based benchmarks for more focused writing

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As I discussed over here, I completely redid my writing goals for 2014. A couple of people have asked me to explain my new system (and I know that other post is mad long) so here’s the TL; DR version.

Instead of just setting a single total work count goal for the year, I set a yearly goal with percentage based benchmarks based on my current needs. For me, this was that over 50% of my writing had to be focused (which means editing or working to...