Hey, there’ll be other New Year’s Eves! Probably.
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Happy New Year! 
I’m continuing my previous goals, but I also want to focus on editing achievements this month. Looking at some of my favorite games with achievements, I’d like to aim for the descriptiveness and usefulness they have.
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Actually this is a rather common amount of words used by anyone familiar with NaNoWriMo. The goal of 1666 words a day gaurentees you 50k words by the end of the month.
Do you have a plan in place to make this happen? A quantifiable goal with rewards and timeframes helps a lot!
If it helps, I remind myself of the quote “The first draft is just you telling the story to yourself.”
Quantifiable goals have a higher chance of being acheived! Writing everyday is great! Would writing 200 words a day be doable? What about 50 words a day?
I wanna put acheivements in my game too, but honestly I can’t think of any right now, so I’m waiting until the actual structure of the game is finished, before I put in any.
FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR BABYYYYYY
That said, I’ve spent the morning doing my yearly tarot readings for myself and my husband, and working out my planner shit so that I can be ORGANIZED AND FOCUSED for the new year! (oddly, it worked really well last year when I got a planner for my birthday, so… who knows! Maybe this will keep up too!)
Wish me luck all!
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I’ve spent the past few months adapting. Got my first job after spending a good chunk of my early adulthood helping care for my little sis (special needs kid; teenage body but maturity of a toddler) then just trying to sort myself out, I took the plunge to get some sort of independence.
On the upside, much like back in school, it gives my imagination time to wander. Picture scenes, connects a few dots, and plug certain holes, etc. Plus, I think being out of the house alone has done wonders for me.
Now, if only I can find time to sit down rather than sleeping every second I’m home…
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Well I didn’t write for most of a week thanks to travel and then I caught COVID, so barely scraped by the last few days, but I finally managed to hecking get my chapter over the line.
So my demo is ready! It feels not very real and I’m nervous as hell/convinced there are some incredibly obvious bugs that I am overlooking and things are gonna crash immediately, but nevermind that, I did it.
Now just to… write the whole rest of the thing.
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Happy New Year to everyone, first and foremost.
January is my birthday month, so I expect it to be extra special. As for my goals…
- Continue with the production for Falrika the Alchemist, now that the festivities wind down.
- Finally enact the upgrade to my PC, since it lacks a graphics card first and foremost.
- Finish the additions to Occhiolism, my Ludum Dare / Game Jam Plus entry from last year.
- Participate in the 2024 Global Game Jam. This marks a decade since I participated in game jams in general.
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Happy new year all! Woooo!!
This January I start college, but amidst the craziness, even just getting a couple hundred words in per day–or even per week–is my goal. I always have so much trouble starting the writing, but when I do, I find it’s really cathartic to do it at all. Maybe it’ll be a welcome break from writing homework. And any progress is good progress.
As for the year, number 1, survive. Number 2, write 50k words! Even if they’re crap! As long as they exist!
Thank you so much for making these!! Remember even if you don’t hit your goals, you’re brilliant and amazing and human. Woop for 2024!
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Goodluck! 
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I find when I put a solid number on it, I’m more reluctant to actually do it.
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Valid and fair! I’m the opposite. I tend to find if I don’t put a number to it, I’m like, Eh, I’ll just do it tomorrow!
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Yayyyyy new goals for a new year! For January, I’ll be hammering out the current chapter so I can post an update and, if there’s time, get some work done on the next.
Wishing everyone out here a Happy New Year and all the best for their writing projects! May the Muses be with you.
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Oh boy, yearly goals. I rarely think that far in advance because, well, I try to take things one step at a time, and subscribe to the ‘it’s a marathon, not a sprint’ school of writing. But I suppose in that sense it might be useful to see where the marathon is headed.
For 2024, I would like to:
- Finish editing, Steam Capsules, ad copy, &c for Asphodel and finally submit it for publication
- Finish writing, editing, capsules, ad copy, &c for Diaspora and submit that.
- Get stuck into Asphodel’s sequel. Given my writing pace, I think about 3-4 chapters this year would be a good number to shoot for, but who knows? I might look at this in twelve months and laugh at myself.
- Make writing a feasible full-time occupation (I’m close right now, but not quite there yet, so here’s hoping!)
For this month, I have at least some solid steps in that direction planned:
- Rewrite/edit chapters P-6 of Asphodel. This seems ambitious to me, but I’m going to shoot for it.
- Finish the first draft of Diaspora. Never any guarantees with this project (I think this has been my goal like… four times in recent months, but the end is within spitting distance this time.)
Happy New Year to all, and good luck with your goals this year, be they writing-related or otherwise. 
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2023 was a bad year, I feel like I lost a lot of willpower and creativity, and forced to live a dormant life
I hope this new year would bring something good to us all
but there is one good thing I found from 2023: keep it simple, stupid ( KISS )
yes, a jargon that I found from college now popped up again and shows how relevant it is, no matter where I go in this life.
I got stuck a lot in whatever I do in 2023 because I want to make it extravagant, make it something out of the box, when I literally have no experience of
so in 2024, I will keep everything simple and learn from simplicity
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@leiatalon – I am transferring the discussion here, so when the December thread closes, we can continue on without interrupt.
My pleasure.
I took a look at my entry (first time since October) and my imposter feelings kicked in. So, for those that have this happen, know that you are not alone!
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Yea i think I’m just intimidated by having to write the perfect first chapters in order to post a wip so I can get feedback, but honestly writing a big first draft will help me so I’ll just have to wait with posting a wip lol, thanks for the tips
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I am past my goal of 1666 words for yesterday. Just need to sort out my thoughts as I still can’t settle on whether to
- keep the power from a rune non-elemental but given the shape of an element which I think is more interesting but it’s proving tricky to describe without making it sound like it IS the element.
Or
- make it so the power IS elemental which would be easier to write but I feel it wouldn’t be as interesting.
Or
- keep the non elemental nature of the power but instead of shaping it like an element it is shaped like something else (I.e shards, walls, chains, maelstrom, electricity) this might be better than option 2 but is too similar to Shade power which I don’t want it to be.
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That’s definitely a dilemma I know well.
Wanting to get that first draft written without obsessing too much about getting everything perfect, versus putting up a ‘perfect’ demo, to get feedback, approval, and motivation.
Also, I love your username.
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Writing goal for 2024 is quite simple for me…
Finish The Bureau and submit it for publication.
That is all.
It’s been a long road, and will be an even longer one to complete the trilogy, but this will be a major accomplishment for me personally.
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Goodluck!!! 
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I won’t be doing any serious writing today as my mind isn’t in it as I finally heard back from the doctor about my Echocardiogram. I, unfortunately, have to have a heart operation, which wasn’t what I was expecting, so it’s knocked me into a daze.
So I’m just doing some notes for a new idea instead of working on Daemonglass just something simple I don’t really have to focus and just lose myself in my writing.
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