I. The Wrong Hobby For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer of some kind. I didn’t start writing with the idea of submitting and selling pieces until my junior year in college. But even before then, I wrote. In third grade, I wrote a story about two friends who…
I set a goal for myself in 2022 to write two blog posts each day. This is a step up from my 2021 goal of publishing one post every day of the year. Note the subtle difference: in 2022, the goal is to write two posts per day, not necessarily publish two. As far as…
The Little Man is learning about the scientific method in school: making observations, asking a question, forming a hypothesis, making predictions, testing prediction, wash, rinse, repeat. Writing this novel, while not a perfect fit for the scientific method, certainly borrows from it. Observations I have made in the past when attempting to write at length…
Over the next 7 days, I’ll be doing a series of posts that look back over my various goals for 2011 and set some new ones for 2012. Last year, I mostly did this in one or two post. So why spread these over 10 posts this year? A couple of reasons: I wanted to…
While there are still 16 days left in 2010, I thought now would be a good time to get my writing goals for 2011 down on paper. A number of factors have influenced the goals for 2011: My goals for 2010 were very aggressive I realized that I am not yet ready to write novels…
Tomorrow, at the Arlington Writers Group meetup, I will be leading a discussion on NaNoWriMo and writing goals. In light of that, it seems appropriate to provide an update on my own writing goals for 2010. I set out four major goals, each of which had some objectives. I’ve had mixed results, but I see…
I think my nadir of laziness has passed this weekend, as I suspected it might. I am turning things around. While Sunday’s are my day to just veg, I have spent this morning planning how to get back on the exercise wagon and stay there. I have set a personal goal for myself, and I’ve…