Writing Goals 07-08
For the record: I’ve done a fourth step of 30 Steps to Becoming a Writer, and set my goals for the year ahed (wich, incidentally, started yesterday, may 1st, 07).
Those goals are (in no particular order; they’re all musts):
- A script for the first part of the Kriegsmarine Romance.
I might have to write some more if some ifs come True but part 1 is mandatory, come hell and high water. - The first draft for the novel code-named D.A.
That’s the one piece I want to write even if it’s the only thing I write. But since I want it to be good and since I never wrote any novels and since I’ve better keep it real, the first draft is more than enough for the year one, I guess. - A Lyadoff & Anchutkin novel.
Or maybe a novellete. Or a screenplay. Anyway, that’s a much lighter, humorous, pulpish one, which is why I wanna make it my trial balloon. - 12 acceptable short stories.
Acceptable by me, that is. One short story per month can be done, I guess. Even though the stories I did before were no more than 1500 words and took me a month or even more to produce. On the other hand, I wasn’t quite as persistent then as I occasionnaly am now. - Some [moonligther’s] work like journalism, copywriting or screenwriting.
No idea as to particulars. The merrier, the better. Money might help, too.
I might try the 5. in English: is there a better way to learn a language than to go and use it? Might even write a tentative story or two. As for the bulk of my fiction, I guess I’ve better stick to Russian yet. I know it, I feel it, I still got things to improve. A lot of them.
So, I don’t know why I write it all in English :) Maybe I just keep my Russian page for the showy stuff, and unmaterialized ambitions don’t show much. Especially here: russian authors have an unnerving ability to lose interest in their project even as people are willing to buy ‘em.
Good thing I’m a half-Jew, then.
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