Goals: Recap and Roundup

This has been a fantastic year in so many ways. Elisa already did her final goal check in of the year, so I’m going to hop onboard to take a look at the goals I set to start the year, and what I’ve accomplished since then.

The What Follows apocalyptic anthology happened. Despite numerous bumps and setbacks, it actually happened. (And my story in it is pretty awesome. So are Kate’s and Elisa’s. Please check it out!)

In other writing: I set a goal for myself of two novels and three short stories. At the time, I thought it was horribly ambitious, though still within the realm of possible. I prefer to set realistic goals, because I’m encouraged when I succeed and discouraged when I don’t.

Over the last year, I have discovered that, with the full-time day job and life, a rough draft of a novel takes me about six months to write. As awesome as it would be to whittle that time down, I doubt I lack that much discipline. And all in all, that’s not terribly shabby, considering everything else I’ve been doing.

Two novel drafts completed, as well as three short pieces. I listed the short stories in my last check-in posts, so I won’t make you read that again. As we speak, I am paragraphs away from the end of another short story, with two more buzzing around my brain.

The tally system has proved to be total magic. I have averaged just under one non-writing day per month. Even if I take one between now and the end of the year, that still means I wrote 353 days out of the year! How amazing is that?

In travel: Istanbul (happened), ReaderCon (happened), World Fantasy in DC (happened).

In balance: I will constantly struggle with this. I find equilibrium only to jump into another play or project or trip. But I’m fine with the lack of a magical formula now.

Yes, this has been a pretty great year.

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