Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Today I’m contemplating both what I want to work on next, and what I ought to work on next. I don’t really want to look back at my January 1st goals right now, because I suspect I’m drifting well off that track while also falling behind.

Once, I had great discipline and focus, and I would work on only one project at a time, refusing to consider another until the first was done. I don’t seem to work that way anymore. In theory flexibility is good, but I’m not so sure that’s true in this case…

…because right now I have four projects in mind – and that’s leaving out three others that I’ve contemplated working on.

First, what I ought to do: the novel I’ve been writing on and off since September now has a sort-of complete draft. I need to expand and revise until it’s sufficiently whole to hand off to a beta reader.

Next: Last fall I wrote a novelette set in The Nanotech Succession story world, and featuring the character Zeke Choy from The Bohr Maker. It’s scheduled to be published at Analog in the fall. I want to write two more stories involving Zeke, so it’s past time I tackled story #2.

Third, I want to start plotting another Puzzle Lands book.

And fourth, I want to start plotting an entirely new novel using some ideas developed in recent short stories, and see if that goes anywhere.

I post this stuff here because putting it out in public may provide some motivation for spending more time on writing and less on peripheral things.

One thing’s for sure though: * I Must Write Faster *

Posted on: Saturday, May 5th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Categories: Writing.
Tags: writing goals