{"id":2528,"date":"2014-01-02T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2014-01-02T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:42:14","slug":"back-and-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/02\/back-and-forth\/","title":{"rendered":"Back and Forth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2530\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/02\/back-and-forth\/attachment\/2014\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/2014.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"479,251\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2014\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/2014.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/2014.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2530 aligncenter\" alt=\"2014\" src=\"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/2014.jpg\" width=\"479\" height=\"251\" \/>Before I get moving on a new year of writing, I figured I should look back at what I did in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>My goal was 1 million words. I made it to just over <strong>400K<\/strong>. <strong>230K<\/strong> of that was on my own projects, while the other <strong>175K<\/strong> was for various freelance clients. December was pretty sparse due to holiday prep and a really heavy October &amp; November where I wrote just over <strong>130,000<\/strong> words for 3 different freelance projects. Needless to say, I was pretty burned out so it was nice to spend a month baking, crafting and just enjoying some time off.<\/p>\n<p>This year, my focus is going to be on <strong>finishing up some works-in-progress<\/strong> and polishing them up for publication. I&#8217;m going to <strong>aim for 500K<\/strong> this year, since I know much of my work will be rewriting and editing.<\/p>\n<p>I have a number of novel series on the go right now, so I want to try to get those onto a schedule so I can edit &amp; submit them and continue working on the next books in each series, alternating between them.<\/p>\n<p>They run the gamut from<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a paranormal investigator in Victorian England<\/li>\n<li>A near-future sci-fi novella series<\/li>\n<li>A suspense\/thriller series<\/li>\n<li>a collection of horror short stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m always tweaking and adjusting my writing process, so I&#8217;ll keep doing that. Although I do also own <strong>Scrivener<\/strong>, I&#8217;m still using <strong>Liquid Story Binder<\/strong> to write. Although it needs some improvements and an update, I just like the flexibility of LSB. I also use <a href=\"www.mindola.com\/supernotecard\" target=\"_blank\">SuperNotecard<\/a> to outline, and some little tricks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pomodoro_Technique\" target=\"_blank\">Pomodoro Technique<\/a> (and the <a href=\"www.focusboosterapp.com\" target=\"_blank\">Focus Booster app<\/a>) to keep on task.<\/p>\n<p>My other goals include trying another year of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.write1sub1.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Write1Sub1<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be going for the monthly goal again this year (trying to write &amp; submit 1 new short story per month). If you&#8217;re looking for a motivational community of writers, check out the website or their <a href=\"http:\/\/absolutewrite.com\/forums\/forumdisplay.php?f=221\" target=\"_blank\">board over on Absolute Write<\/a>. Although I only check in from time to time, everyone there is fantastic and you can even find beta readers if you need one.<\/p>\n<p>So, another year with lofty goals. Even though I didn&#8217;t hit all my goals for 2013, I managed to hit some awesome milestones (including almost 500K of writing; my best month with 81K words; getting some new freelance work; experimenting with my writing voice). That&#8217;s something I can be proud of.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the writing goals, I want to read more, spend less time on social media and just try some new techniques to up my writing game.<\/p>\n<p>So, what are your goals for 2014, writerly or otherwise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at what I accomplished and starting on a new year of writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[239,237,304],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-writing","tag-goals","tag-new-year","tag-pomodoro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - 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