Six months into the year, it’s time to see how I’m doing on the goals for the year.<\/p>\n
1) Send out a news letter each month. <\/strong><\/p>\n So far, so good. I’ve written and sent one news letter each month. A couple times I was finishing the newsletter in the last couple days of the month, but I sent one out each month. It has been interesting picking the topics each month. This year I’ve written about: Dwarfs, Journals, Fight Scenes, Where is God, World Building, Where I’ve been.<\/p>\n 2) Post at least one character blog entry per week.<\/strong><\/p>\n Julie – 6<\/p>\n Hector – 1<\/p>\n Samuel – 1<\/p>\n Annay – 2<\/p>\n Turies – 5<\/p>\n Brian – 4<\/p>\n For a total of 19 in 26 weeks.<\/p>\n Better than half, but not were I wanted to be. Part of the problem is that I sabotaged myself. I started looking at my blogs and wondering if they were becoming a prequel to my novel. In other words if they were or should be centering around a central story. While thinking about that question it distracted me from writing just random posts. I think I do want to have the blogs tell a story, but I still want the blogs to be spontainous and free formed. I’m going to spend the next couple weeks mapping out where I want the blogs to go and get back to writing one a week.<\/p>\n 3) Have my story flogged.<\/strong><\/p>\n I sent in the first 16 lines and they were flogged. I learned a few things and I’ve made some changes. At some point I probably should send in my revised 16 lines.<\/p>\n 4) Complete the first revision of my book by June.<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m about a third of the way through and have not made any progress in the last three months. It has been a bit frustrating. I think there are two my reasons that I’ve been making slow progress. The first is that I’ve been working so much at my full time job that I come home I am mentally exhausted. The second is that I think that my check list of things to check in the first revision was too ambushes. I think I need to go back and run through the book in multiple passes.<\/p>\n My new goal is to get through the grammar pass by the end of July. Then I’ll pick something else off my list and try and do that in August.<\/p>\n 5) Read the two books I got for my birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n I’ve read 3\/4 of the manuscript makeover book and skimmed through the other. I want to finish the manuscript book this summer. It is still a little early for the second book to have much meaning to me. Maybe this coming winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six months into the year, it’s time to see how I’m doing on the goals for the year. 1) Send out a news letter each month. So far, so good. I’ve written and sent one news letter each month. A couple times I was finishing the newsletter in the last couple days of the month, … Continue reading “Goal Check”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglasgclarke.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}