So four days ago I said that I was going to begin a goal of finishing not only a book, but also a manuscript. It’s been a tough three days to really finishing anything note worthy, but I feel very accomplished with what I have done.
To start I picked a book on day 1. It was a book which I have already been working on and have been very influenced by it lately. It strange that I get influenced by a book that you yourself are writing, but sometimes I forget what my goal for that book is. I had to force myself to sit down and write bits and pieces of an outline on day 1 and some of day 2. Though the outline isn’t finished I feel accomplished that my rough draft for a plot is laid out.
So my first goal was to finally pick a blasted name for the book because if I don’t do that after the first few pages then I spend my time thinking of possible book names instead of the book itself. Then it was off to decide how many pages I was going to push myself to write each day. After much struggle with my mother’s good opinion I made it a good two whole pages on the lovely OpenOffice.org which has been faithful to me since day one. Finally I had to set myself to a guess of how many pages I desired for the book to give myself a time line as to not get off task.
So its day 3 and my small goals are all set and I’m doing my best to fulfill them each and every day the sun comes back up. I thought it would be nifty to give a little outline of my progress so those of you watchers, or lurkers as Stickam calls it, and commenters can see my progress yourself.
Progress:
Day 3 / Day 365
18 pages / goal 400+
Wish me luck!
