Old People Writing for Teens, IV

Mine is to reach 50,000 words in my WIP. I'm currently at 15,000. I know that's unimpressive for most of y'all, but I've accepted that I write at a slower pace. I'm also in a writing-reading-heavy graduate program, and I don't have time to write each day. Alas. 50,000 would be much closer to my ultimate goal!

Happy 2013, fellow old people!

My writing goal for the year is simple: write every day. I know that seems small for a lot of you who probably already do it, but I'm weird. I have a hard time getting into "the zone" unless I know I have a good chunk of time set aside. You'd think being a stay-at-home-Mom would be conducive to that, but...no. So my aim is to learn to pump put a few words when I can steal 10-15 minutes, every single day.

I think that's a great goal, JB. I think being a SAHM is one of the hardest jobs out there. If you find 15 extra minutes, you must be doing something right!

Sage, just wow. Amazing goals. I am super impressed that you write two books a year.

100 books (not including re-reads) for me this year unless Goodreads does it differently, in which case, like that.

GRADUATE.
More writing - lots more writing - starting off with short stories (Paragon Academy will still be coursework).

Signed up for it. I'll be starting it with the next fiction book I read, which will be for uni, actually.

Happy New Year, folks!

I'm not going to count beta reads. And isn't it just a case of not including them in your currently reading list?

Also, it seems to be taking a long time for my recommendations to come up...

writing goals:
finish a book.
sell book, rinse and repeat lol

other goals:
be a better person
go somewhere new
win the lottery???



I happen to be a very optimistic person haha

Oh, do you need to have a "date read" for it to count in the 2013 thing? How do you do the dates read? The day you finish the book?

Wow. 100 books? I try to read one a week, so you're doubling what I read.

I'd like to write at least one new first draft this year and revise something to a query-worthy state. I'd love to make a goal to write everyday, but I know it can't happen. Maybe I could come up with an average instead of a daily or weekly goal.

Hope 2013 is a wonderful writing year for you all!

I'm a fast reader. If I do nothing but read, I can read a bunch of books in a day, sometimes.

What if you just added them (like I did), but don't know...

Ohhh OK.

And how do you work progress while reading (print AND ebook) and post comments while reading?

Sorry for the newbie questions.

New Year's goals?

Okay, ahem...

*Quit saying dumb things to my wife (which rules out about 50% of our conversations);
*Try and be a better father to my Lindsay Lohanesque daughter (but you know what? Having said that, methinks she needs to make a resolution to quit being so Lohanesque);
*Stop hating the heinous woman across the street...well...at least a bit more;
*Lose weight (after about three weeks of binging on crap food. Gotta' crawl up to these things or they don't work);
*Quit secretly smoking (I know, right? Never said I was smart.);
*Call my mom daily (naw, the hell with that. Weekly? I'll work on it);

Crap, forgot to mention why we're all here (except for, of course, to wish you guys a happy new year, good goin', best wishes on future endeavors, kickin' tidings, bla, bla, bla, I think I covered it)!

Writing goals! My goals are:
*Finish two new first drafts of books;
*Strive to improve my writing (something I'm constantly working on and something I don't think I'll ever be happy with);
*Try like crazy to get two books pubbed this year (I'm sitting on five others, in various needs of revising).

Lofty, yes, but set your goals high everyone!

This group is prolific. I am like the bird in the avatar person who is a slow drafter. I try to put the pedal to the metal, but get sidetracked by research. Maybe I don't plan ahead enough. Just tonight, I got sidetracked by religion, of all things. I didn't realize this would be a theme. It comes up in multicultural romance.

My goals for 2013:
- Find true balance between creative and freelance writing, or dump the latter. (If only I could avoid the instant gratification of payment within a week).
- Finish first draft of new YA novel, hope it is as lovely as it appears.
- Polish the prose on MG novel, circulate it to eager agents or editors.
- Outline new idea for YA novel that makes me want to dance at its brilliance. Wish I had one million hours to write!
- Attend at least one writer's conference this year.


SIK, I used to be a secret smoker. I gave it up a few years ago, and it was easier than I thought it would be. Good luck with that! It is a great choice for your health. I no longer worry when I get a cough.

Adding in

Writing Goals:
-Continue writing 5/6 days a week. But increase daily goal to at least 2,000 words everyday.
-Finish the third draft of Talented by end of January and send to Betas
-Finish my query, synopsis
-Put on my big girl pants and post in SYW
-Finally start emailing agents
-Rewrite Witch story AND Sidekick story.
-Read 80 books for the year.

I'm sad that I only have four more days of vacation left After struggling the first few days, I really found a system that worked and got a lot done.