Posts Tagged ‘writing goals’
weekly summary 10/24
In writing goals on October 24, 2008 at 8:00 pmmy goals for this week were:
#1 / revise poems for my next submissions
#2 / write one new poem
#3 / begin to write a summary/vision for the manuscript
#4 / read one poetry collection
#5 / (optional) complete & share one free write
here’s what i left undone
#1 / revise poems for my next submissions
#3 / begin to write a summary/vision for the manuscript
#4 / read one poetry collection (I finished a memoir and started a novel, but no poetry)
here’s what i accomplished:
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weekly summary 10/17
In process, writing goals on October 17, 2008 at 3:51 pmmy goals for this week were:
#1 / identify poems for my next submissions
#2 / write one new poem
#3 / revise two existing pieces (one to submit to a journal; one for the manuscript)
#4 / read one poetry collection
#5 / (optional) complete & share one free write
here’s what i accomplished:
#1 / identified poems for next round of submissions, which will be prior to month’s end
#2 / wrote several* new poems, including the sensitivity poem, the dead artist poem, the forest poem, the many colored fiction poem part 1 and part 2 and the running poem
#3 / revised two poems
#4 / read immortal sofa by maura stanton (here’s a great interview with her)
#5 / completed and shared one free write
#6 / finished a collaborative piece with poco pal slynne
#7 / met with my writing buddy jill
here were my challenges:
anxiety. unhappy thoughts. family & studio commitments. lack of focus on the more linear aspects of my goals (revision, selection, planning).
my goals for next week are:
#1 / revise poems for my next submissions
#2 / write one new poem
#3 / begin to write a summary/vision for the manuscript
#4 / read one poetry collection
#5 / (optional) complete & share one free write
*this level of productivity is a result of the poetry gong i’ve started with jill. the risk is writing a bunch of crap; the benefit is breaking the back of the creature that has kidnapped the muse and silencing that mean, mean inner critic.
weekly summary 10/10
In process, writing goals on October 10, 2008 at 9:25 amanother decent, productive week on the writing front. sometimes i wonder how that can be when my brain is otherwise in shambles. maybe there’s something to the stereotype of the mad scientist, the unstable poet, the bizarre artist.
my goals for this week were:
#1 / identify three journals for my next submissions
#2 / write one new poem
#3 / revise two existing pieces (one to submit to a journal; one for the manuscript)
#4 / read one poetry collection
#5 / (optional) complete & share one free write
here’s what i accomplished:
this week’s summary
In process, writing goals on October 3, 2008 at 9:13 ami have started an intensive goal-setting and accountability process, and part of it is assembling a weekly writing summary and setting goals for the following week. that task falls to fridays, and i’ve decided to share my efforts via the blog.
my goals for this week were:
#1 / submit one poem to pebble lake review illness issue
#2 / write one new poem
#3 / revise two existing pieces (one to submit to a journal; one for the manuscript)
#4 / (optional) complete & share one free write
here’s what i accomplished:
