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I’m not good at…

December 22, 2017 by Jenn Leave a Comment

  • Short stories
    • I have trouble with the length… I either write way too short or way too long.
    • I have trouble figuring out how much of the story to tell. There’s always more – whole world’s worth- that I know.
    • I have trouble with submission deadlines. Short stories always take longer than I think they will.
  • Keeping things updated
    • Remembering to update
    • Deciding what to write an update about
    • Making enough progress to be worth updating

I want to get better at both these things and I think I’ve got a plan that will help.

I’m scheduling time to write at least one short story each month in 2018. And I’ll publish those either as individual stories or collections. I may go as far as to schedule the actual days that I work on them first. Practice should make me better at writing short stories. Or at least make them a little easier to write.

I already have several update posts scheduled for the first part of 2018. That means I don’t have to try to come up with what kind of update to write. I have a tracking spreadsheet almost finished to help me keep track of the things I want to update. And I have people asking to see some of the stories I’ll be working on in 2018.

So here’s to recognizing what needs improvement and putting a plan in place to make it happen.

Filed Under: The Work, The Writing Tagged With: Anthology, decisions, drafts, planning, projects, To-Do

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