This Week’s Goals

Posted by Jo | Filed under Productivity

I need to get back to my goal-setting. My goal is to finish up the novel and have it ready to start looking for an agent within a couple months. I had considered self-publishing, and I may still go that route, but I think I’ll try the more traditional route first. I want to get a couple other short stories published so that I’ll have som writing credits other than my freelancing. I’ve been doing well lately with article sales, but I’m not sure how impressive that might be to a literary agent.

I’m trying to be a bit more specific in my goals as well, which I hope will help me plan things out a bit better. Also, I’m going to work on prioritizing what I need to do a bit more. I find that if I don’t, I tend to get bogged down doing the easier, but less important, tasks.

By next Sunday, before I go to bed, I want to…

  1. Write 1000 words on the novel daily
  2. Write 3 blog posts for each blog
  3. Go through my email
  4. Leave 40 comments on others’ blogs
  5. Spend 2 hours visiting Entrecard blogs and dropping cards
  6. Spend one hour on the Zombie short story I have going
  7. Buy some ad campaigns for the blogs
  8. Check elance for projects I might like to bid on
  9. Write two articles to sell on Constant Content

As you can see, I have a busy week ahead of me.

Anyone else out there want to share your writing plans?

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Comments (1) | August 31, 2008

One Response to “This Week’s Goals”

  1. DebMc Says:
    September 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    You mean, like, put it is WRITING? In real words so that people can understand what I’m trying to accomplish? Gads, someone might hold me ACCOUNTABLE or something. Very, very dangerous.

    Grin.

    Excellent advice and better practice.

    I’m in my last year of homeschool my teenager, so making sure he can write is taking lots of time. I plan on finishing a rough draft of a lengthy policy manual I’m doing for my church by seven days from today. That means two or three hours a day.
    One hour this week revising a short story.
    Two hours this week doodling on my non-fiction book idea.

    Next week, I’ll have more. Keep reminding me to reach after my goals!

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