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writethisfanficHello, all, I'll be doing the check-in posts this week. Hope your Sunday is going well for you!
For discussion, let's talk about your goals and plans for the week. I personally find that it's useful to have a larger, overarching goal that's broken down into smaller elements. The elements keep me from feeling overwhelmed by the larger goal and give me a sense of accomplishment and progress when I'm able to check them off my list, so I might be thinking "I want to finish this story," but in practice I'll break it down to "Today I want to write five hundred words/finish this scene" or similar small goals. Sometimes, when writing is hard, I'll settle for "Today I will write a paragraph" because every little bit helps.
How do you approach your writing goals? Does it help you to break things down into smaller steps, or are you a big-picture person? Or do you prefer to freestyle it instead of making plans?
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What have you been working on today?
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Researching
1 (20.0%)
Plotting
1 (20.0%)
Writing
3 (60.0%)
Sending stuff to beta
0 (0.0%)
Editing
0 (0.0%)
Posting
0 (0.0%)
Replying to feedback
0 (0.0%)
Resting
2 (40.0%)
On a scale from Argh to Whee, how are you feeling today?
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Mean: 5.80 Median: 6 Std. Dev 0.75
Mean: 5.80 Median: 6 Std. Dev 0.75
| Argh 1 | 0 (0.0%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 3 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 4 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 5 | 2 (40.0%) | |
| 6 | 2 (40.0%) | |
| 7 | 1 (20.0%) | |
| 8 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 9 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| Whee! 10 | 0 (0.0%) |
For discussion, let's talk about your goals and plans for the week. I personally find that it's useful to have a larger, overarching goal that's broken down into smaller elements. The elements keep me from feeling overwhelmed by the larger goal and give me a sense of accomplishment and progress when I'm able to check them off my list, so I might be thinking "I want to finish this story," but in practice I'll break it down to "Today I want to write five hundred words/finish this scene" or similar small goals. Sometimes, when writing is hard, I'll settle for "Today I will write a paragraph" because every little bit helps.
How do you approach your writing goals? Does it help you to break things down into smaller steps, or are you a big-picture person? Or do you prefer to freestyle it instead of making plans?
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