Week 5 Month 1/2

weekly goals (wednesday to tuesday)

1612/7500 words written or edited

2/2 fiction or poetry submissions

1/1 story read out loud

1/1 critique
1/1 Spanish Language story, poem, or article read

Monthly Goals January

1/2 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

0/1 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)

0/1 novel chapter (not a short story)

2/2 critiques extra

1/1 poem (all other poems are just for fun!)

2/2 blog posts

0/1 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English

2/1 novel read, at least, no excuses

2/2 writing exercises

0/1 article written
1/1 magazine market read cover to cover

Monthly Goals February

0/2 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

1/1 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)

0/1 novel chapter (not a short story)

2/2 critiques extra

0/1 poem (all other poems are just for fun!)

1/2 blog posts

0/1 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English

0/1 novel read, at least, no excuses

0/2 writing exercises

0/1 article written
0/1 magazine market read cover to cover

To catch up

59/10405  words written or edited

0/2 fiction or poetry submissions

0/2 story read out loud

2013:

0/197104 words

0/39 fiction or poetry submissions
0/25 story read out loud
0/71.75 hours revising
0/47.75 hours novel
0/9 spanish thing read
0/17 revised stories

0/4 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)
1/31 critiques

0/8 poems

0/4 blog posts

0/8 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English
0/9 story submitted for peer review
0/4 submission I expect to be reviewed to a peer review site of worth
0/10 writing exercises

Week 4 Month 1

weekly goals (wednesday to tuesday)

7500/7500 words written or edited

2/2 fiction or poetry submissions

1/1 story read out loud

1/1 critique
1/1 Spanish Language story, poem, or article read

Monthly Goals 

1/2 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

0/1 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)

0/1 novel chapter (not a short story)

2/2 critiques extra

0/1 poem (all other poems are just for fun!)

2/2 blog posts

0/1 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English

2/1 novel read, at least, no excuses

2/2 writing exercises

0/1 article written
0/1 magazine market read cover to cover

To catch up

59/10405  words written or edited

0/2 fiction or poetry submissions

0/2 story read out loud

2013:

0/197104 words

0/39 fiction or poetry submissions
0/25 story read out loud
0/71.75 hours revising
0/47.75 hours novel
0/9 spanish thing read
0/17 revised stories

0/4 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)
0/31 critiques

0/8 poems

0/4 blog posts

0/8 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English
0/9 story submitted for peer review
0/4 submission I expect to be reviewed to a peer review site of worth
1/11 writing exercises

Week 3 Month 1

weekly goals (wednesday to tuesday)

1432/7500 words written or edited

0/2 fiction or poetry submissions

0/1 story read out loud

1/1 critique
1/1 Spanish Language story, poem, or article read

Monthly Goals 

1/2 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

0/1 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)

0/1 novel chapter (not a short story)

0/2 critiques extra

0/1 poem (all other poems are just for fun!)

2/2 blog posts

0/1 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English

2/1 novel read, at least, no excuses

2/2 writing exercises

0/1 article written
0/1 magazine market read cover to cover

To catch up

0/4337 words written or edited

0/1 story read out loud

Week 2 Month 1

weekly goals (wednesday to tuesday)

7500/7500 words written or edited

2/2 fiction or poetry submissions

1/1 story read out loud

1/1 critique
1/1 Spanish Language story, poem, or article read

Monthly Goals 

1/2 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

0/1 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)

0/1 novel chapter (not a short story)

0/2 critiques extra

0/1 poem (all other poems are just for fun!)

1/2 blog posts

0/1 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English

1/1 novel read, at least, no excuses

2/2 writing exercises

0/1 article written
0/1 magazine market read cover to cover

To catch up

185/4522 words written or edited

0/1 story read out loud

Week 1 Month 1

Happy New Year to me.


weekly goals (wednesday to tuesday)

2978/7500 words written or edited

2/2 fiction or poetry submissions

0/1 story read out loud

1/1 critique
1/1 Spanish Language story, poem, or article read

Monthly Goals 

0/2 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

0/1 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)

0/1 novel chapter (not a short story)

0/2 critiques extra

0/1 poem (all other poems are just for fun!)

1/2 blog posts

0/1 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English

1/1 novel read, at least, no excuses

2/2 writing exercises

0/1 article written


Old stuff

2013:

0/197104 words

0/39 fiction or poetry submissions
0/25 story read out loud
0/71.75 hours revising
0/47.75 hours novel
0/9 spanish thing read
0/17 revised stories

0/4 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)
0/31 critiques

0/8 poems

0/4 blog posts

0/8 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English
0/9 story submitted for peer review
0/4 submission I expect to be reviewed to a peer review site of worth
1/12 writing exercises

2012 (remaining):

Words Written or Edited (0/106349)
Completed Short Story Rough Draft (0/1)
Stories Submitted (0/35)

New sets of goals and thoughts on goals

Okay, here are the goals I currently have:

Weekly Goals:

7500 words written or edited

2 fiction or poetry submissions

1 story read out loud

5 hours revising (including rewriting)

5 hours on novel project

1 Spanish Language story, poem, or article read

Monthly Goals 

2 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

1 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)

1 novel chapter (not a short story)

8 critiques

2 poems

2 blog posts

1 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English

1 novel read, at least, no excuses

1 submission I expect to be reviewed to a peer review site of worth

2 writing exercises

The goals that are currently working the least well are: 8 critiques, 2 submissions, both sets of hourly goals, and 2 revised stories.

Here are my deficits for the year:
0/197104

0/39 fiction or poetry submissions
0/25 story read out loud
0/71.75 hours revising
0/47.75 hours novel
0/9 spanish thing read
0/17 revised stories

0/4 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)
0/31 critiques

0/8 poems

0/4 blog posts

0/8 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English
0/9 story submitted for peer review
0/4 submission I expect to be reviewed to a peer review site of worth
0/12 writing exercises

The hourly one fucking disturbs me, and has been a lot of my problem. I'm not spending ten hours a week writing. Or even doing writing related stuff. If I had spent the deficit time SINCE OCTOBER when I started counting, just on the writing bits, I'd have a conservative 72,000 extra words on there- or more than a third of what I owe for the year.

I can do this shit, I'm just not doing it.

Incidentally my 2012 shortfall was:

Words Written or Edited (0/110659)
Completed Short Story Rough Draft (0/11)
Stories Submitted (0/35)
Writing Exercise (0/5)

I don't think moving critiques to monthly helped anything. Nor the writing exercises, but I don't care as much about those. I'm not going to do the time goals anymore, but I am going to keep track of time in the little file where I do my wordcounts. I'm going to stop goalposting there and just observe for a bit. 

I don't know about the blog posts. They get put out on the back burner- so do the poems- but the honest truth is I don't care that much about the blog. 

Hmmmm. 

So new goals, at the moment:

7 Thousand word blocks (Ideally 1000 words a day, but 2000 would count for 2 and 500 for nothing)

7500 words written or edited

2 fiction or poetry submissions

1 story read out loud

1 critique
1 Spanish Language story, poem, or article read

Monthly Goals 

2 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

1 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)

1 novel chapter (not a short story)

2 critiques extra

1 poem (all other poems are just for fun!)

2 blog posts

1 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English

1 novel read, at least, no excuses

2 writing exercises

I will also keep a to-do list on the side, with dates to be aware of. Which means buying back my duotrope submission. May as well, right?

remaining weeks of 2013

Lets be honest, shall we? I went home and didn't write a damn thing. Totals will be updated accordingly. Did read a novel though. 

NEW Catch up

0/80623 words
0/22 fiction or poetry submissions
0/10 story read out loud
0/71.75 hours revising
0/47.75 hours novel
0/9 spanish thing read
0/5 revised stories, with less tolerance for shit flash pieces

0/4 short story rough draft (I will go over the number anyway and it's not meant to be the focus)
0/30 critiques

0/4 poems

0/4 blog posts

0/4 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English
0/4 submission I expect to be reviewed to a peer review site of worth
0/7 writing exercises

To Catch Up 2013

0/116481 words written or edited
0/1 short story or novel chapter critiqued
0/5 writing exercise
0/17 fiction or poetry submissions
0/9 story submitted for peer review
0/15 story read out loud
0/12 short stories or chapters revised to submission quality
0/4 poems
0/4 story, article, or poem translated from Spanish to English