Daily Goals Progress (Accountability and Encouragement!)

Gideon Smith · 2024-12-02T00:06:51Z

I found @ease “Writers Aspirant Accountability” thread having me state goals and then give an update on whether I made it at the end of the month really helpful. It helped me be accountable, and it also inspired me through seeing what other fellow forumites were doing. Some of it was WOTF related, some of it was not, but as he stated in his ‘aims’ statement for the thread, we grew into better and more productive writers through it together. One thing it hasn’t done for me, at least, is keep me on track for my goals during the month. Sometimes I wander off track and have nothing to report. This month I had posted a mid-month update and it helped me achieve goals EARLY, and I decided it might be helpful to do daily or weekly ‘updates’, but I don’t want to overwhelm the other thread - I find it hard enough to find my goals there as it is. I thought it could be helpful to set up this new space in which to do that, both for myself and for anyone else that would find such a space for on-going accountability check-ins AND hopefully for cheering each other on towards those goals as I think supportive posts do help! If you want to join in, please do! It doesn’t have to be daily, the idea is just that it's a place to report in on a regular basis in less than the monthly frequency to set up some friendly support. I thought today would be a great day to start as while not all of these will be WOTF related, I am sure for many of them they will be, and today we have 31 days till the end of the V42Q1 window. What better way to get yourself writing and get that in, than to have a daily check in here! It can be anything you want - wordcounts, draft number, section you worked on - or even what got in your way and stopped you from working on it! All are valuable and worthy of reporting, accountability, cheers and support.

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I have a whole heap of old stories which have not been sent out (ever) or only once (wotf) but which I need to fix 'just one smll thing' in.... and so they have been sitting on my harddrive. So I am trying to motivate myself to go back an tinker/edit these so I can send them out one by one. No one's going to accept them if they just sit on my harddrive forever.

"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines

Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: HM Q2: P Q3: P Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 82 submitted 4 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance

2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections

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Posted : June 12, 2025 5:38 am

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