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Marseille · 01-01-2015, 10:18 PM

I'm still working out the details. I feel good about a lot of the work I've done recently even though none of it has borne fruit yet. One concern is that my stable of projects in early development actually shrank over the past two years as I focused on bringing a certain number of projects to completion.

I'm trying to tweak my goals to ensure I keep my ideas 'binder' healthy so I've got a nice farm team in the wings. Instead of only tracking word counts, I'm going to try tracking writing events more broadly, and I'm still defining what an event is. So x words, y ideas, z units of outlining, etc, would all count as an event. Progress tracking has always helped me stay motivated.

I still aim to prioritize finishing projects above all else, and if I could go back to when I was a kid, that's the biggest piece of advice I'd give myself: finish everything, no matter how crappy it turns out. If I'd done that I'd have been at the skill level I am now 10 years ago. But I also don't ever want to sit down with time and inclination to write without an exciting project ready to be written in.

01-01-2015, 10:18 PM	#2
Marseille Guru Posts: 687 Karma: 5700000 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: kindle	I'm still working out the details. I feel good about a lot of the work I've done recently even though none of it has borne fruit yet. One concern is that my stable of projects in early development actually shrank over the past two years as I focused on bringing a certain number of projects to completion. I'm trying to tweak my goals to ensure I keep my ideas 'binder' healthy so I've got a nice farm team in the wings. Instead of only tracking word counts, I'm going to try tracking writing events more broadly, and I'm still defining what an event is. So x words, y ideas, z units of outlining, etc, would all count as an event. Progress tracking has always helped me stay motivated. I still aim to prioritize finishing projects above all else, and if I could go back to when I was a kid, that's the biggest piece of advice I'd give myself: finish everything, no matter how crappy it turns out. If I'd done that I'd have been at the skill level I am now 10 years ago. But I also don't ever want to sit down with time and inclination to write without an exciting project ready to be written in.