2023 Writing Goals

I wrote 493,377 words in 2022.
It was 6,623 words short of 500,000 words.
This month I haven’t really gotten any writing projects in. It’s been hard to focus.
During new years. . . I was going to give myself a very ambitious goal of 750,000 words, but I think even 600,000 words would be a stretch. I am keeping it at 600,000, I would be happy getting over 500,000 this year. (2023.)

I also want to finish the two projects I had started last year. (Vortex and my personal piece)
I also want to get back into my vampire project even if its not book 2. . . maybe I’ll focus on Book 3 or the vampire war.
I just want to be writing more.
I need to get all of my hand written stuff onto my computer.
I also need to get more blogs posted.

I have no steady table or desk to write at and traveling in the winter has been very complicated. I need to write or type for at least an hour a day.

So over all …. I want in 2023: .(1)..500,000 words written, (2) several of my projects finished, and (3) to write something each day.

2022 Goals

I posted those in 2020, and sadly they still fit. . . I just added a few notes.

• I want to read more. I will make a list of books and stories, I want to read soon. (Stories really need to pull me in. . . It’s hard with my location to simply read. . . I keep getting interrupted.)
• I want to write more and post on my blogs and writing sites like wattpadd. I also like to find and try some writing contests.
• I want to research publishers. I also want to look into self-publishing.
• I need to edit and get Driving Lies out for more readers.
• I need to finish book 2 of my Vampire or work on Book 4 and 5 which the vampire war.
• I have better writing patterns and no more writer’s block! I want to work more with my boyfriend and finish a project or two.
• I also want to have at least one blog on each of my blogs each month.
• My word count goal is 500,000. I know it’s less than years before but I need to focus on the publishing part, not writing. Writing is my bliss, but is it worth anything if no one reads it?

Some where I also have to find time to exercise as well.

Goals for 2021

Goals for 2021

1. Word Count is 600,000 (I am going to try it again. . . on average 50, 000 words per month. . . )
2. 30 days of ideas. . .
   1. 30 days of Poems
   2. 30 days of things to be grateful for
   3. 30 days of random things of my love/ happiness
   4. 30 days of prompts
   5. 30 days of Prayers
3. Week of short stories ( on two different accounts)
4. Journaling for self (and therapy)
5. Get into some writing contests
6. Publish Driving Lies Trilogy
7. Make writing friends (But not get hit on by random people or bots)
8. Work on my health issues
9. Get majority of my hand written words typed up
10. Research (very long list)
11. Working my spirituality and mediation

2019 Vs 2020

Day is 1-1-2020. (1 1 2020.. . .it’s cool)

Anyway. . . I have learned that I didn’t accomplish as many of my writing goals that I wanted to . . . My Blog 2018 Vs 2019

However I have been working on me. . . . my health, and some other personal projects. I do want to publish more than anything, but if I am not healthy and strong, I cannot get anything decent out on screen. (I finally got a cpap machine and more oxygen when I sleep does wonders for my energy level, but it took months to get patterns working.)

I also had participated in NaNoWriMo this year, but I did not get the goal of 50,000 words. . . I barely made 30 or 35K. . . However I did achieve my writing goals for both Camp NaNoWriMo this year. . . I have had writer’s block since mid-November. . . I just lost steam. (However I am very grateful for a good friend of mine that has been keeping my writing brain working with our own fun, creative stories.)

I did manage manage to get 136, 975 words more this year than last year. . .

2019 final word count was 689, 921 (Just 61,079 short of my hopeful goal of 750,000 words.)

I wrote 155 blogs this year. . .  (I wanted to write 300 blogs, but I focused on several novels this year and my health which took up more time and energy than planned.)
The links to all of my blogs are on here. . . I have my link list pinned to the top of this blog. I also wrote stories on wattpadd. I hope to write a few more this year.

I didn’t publish anything, but I did finish my Thriller trilogy Driving Lies. I have been working with fellow writing friends and beta readers.

I also realized that I have found a new love. . . coffee with fancy creamers in it.  (because of this, I have cut back majority on my soda intake. However I still love Pepsi too just not as much. . . between cutting back and the walks I take, I have lost 17 pounds. Yay!)

Goals I have for 2020. . .

• I want to read more. I will make a list of books and stories, I want to read soon.
• I want  to write more and post on my blogs and writing sites like wattpadd.
• I want to research publishers.
• I need to edit and get Driving Lies out for more readers.
• I need to finish book 2 of my Vampire or work on Book 4 and 5 which the vampire war.
• I have better writing patterns and no more writer’s block!

 

Word Challenge update

Last Saturday, July 20th, I participate in a the 10k in 24 hour word writing challenge.

I read about from this blog, https://abookhavenx.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/write-10k-in-a-day/

I did not get 10 k, but I got 5,845 words on my thriller novel trilogy. I am almost finished with book, the first draft of the thriller trilogy and I got caught up with my Camp Nanowrimo word count.

I had been fighting depression and home issues, so I was behind. I think because of that challenge will get my goal 30k word count this month.

Its 23 and I have about seven days. . . my two goals are reaching my 30,000 word count and finishing my novel.

I really think I can do this and when I do I redye my hair purple again. Yay.

First Third of 2019

So far up to date I have 242,413 words written. It averages 1,939 words per day. (My goal is 2,000 words per day and I’m pretty close.)

At this rate if I keep up writing at 1,939 words per day I will be at 707,735 words by the end of the year. (My yearly goal is 750,000 words this year.)

This includes. . . (by not limited to)

• Novels
• Rewrites/edits
• Diary
• Blogs
• Lists
• Stories
• Emails/chatting(especially storytelling)
• Notes/research

Note: I try to write everyday even if its just notes, diary entries or lists. However there are some days when I’m just too weak to write. I do try my best to make it up.

3 AM I Ideas

So my sleep schedule is off. . . it is now 3 am in the morning.

I was scanning my facebook main page. . . as one of my many distraction as lately.

There was a post to share the link of your first published book.

Here’s my link. . .

https://www.amazon.com/Whispering-Path-Ms-Rebekah-Wolveire/dp/1463674309/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1550045233&sr=8-6&keywords=The+whispering+path

The Whispering Path. (2011)

It was even under my old pen name Rebekah Wolveire

It hit me . . . I know I need to reedit and rewrite (after eight years of learning of the writing career and how to better your novels and such etc). I plan to write and reedit this book and make an e-book this summer.

So this is what happens to me at 3 am in the morning.

So please look for  The Whispering Path in the Summer of 2019. (As long as I do not get distracted.)

2018 Vs 2019

In 2018 I did the following. . .

1. Written over 200 blogs
2. Written over 500,000 words (552, 946 words to be exact)
3. My computer was down most of the year, so I wrote most of my novels by hand and used tablets for my blogs.
4. I wrote entire diary
5. Acoomplished by Camp NaNoWriMo and NaNoWriMo in Novmeber (with gout)

 

In 2019, I want to. . .

1. I want something published.
2. Write 12 fanfiction stories (https://www.fanfiction.net/~rebekahwriter13/ )
3. Write 12 Short stories for Wattpadd (https://www.wattpad.com/user/RebekahQuinne )
4. Write 300 blogs this year (Links to my blogs here: https://rebekahquinne.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/links-to-my-pages-4/ )
5. Finish these several projects
   • Crimson Shadow Collection: Book 2:Daris
   • Driving Lies Book 3 Typed
   • Driving Lies Books 1-3 Edit

 

Links to my pages

Writing is my number 1 passion. I write short stories, poems, novels, and blogs. Genres I’m interested in are but not limited to . . . Horror, paranormal, occult, spiritual, romance, modern, suspense, thriller and drama. (I have worked with some erotica, but with another pen name.)

These are the links to all of Internet me (but the naughty part)

Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/RebekahQuinne

Twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/rebekahquinne

WattPad

https://www.wattpad.com/Rebekahquinne

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/Rebekahquinne/

Smash words

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Rebekah1213

Deviant art

https://www.deviantart.com/rebekah1213

Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6454956.Rebekah_Quinne

Old LiveJournal

https://rebekah1213.livejournal.com

Fan fiction.net

https://m.fanfiction.net/u/6645354/RebekahWriter13

Nanowrimo profile

https://nanowrimo.org/participants/rebekah1213

Tumblr

https://rebekah1213.tumblr.com

My health blog
https://rebekahs.health.blog/

My Cooking Blog
https://cookingimprov.home.blog/

My WordPress blogs

https://BeckyBumbles.wordpress.com/

https://rebekahwolveire.wordpress.com/

https://rqshortstories.wordpress.com/

https://rebekah1213.wordpress.com/

https://beckyms1213blog.wordpress.com/

https://spiritualbeck.wordpress.com/

The Whispering Path my first attempt at a novel

https://www.amazon.com/Whispering-Path-Ms-Rebekah-Wolveire/dp/1463674309

Camp Nanowrimo July Survival list

Every year in Nanowrimo forums they always ask you what is your survival list. . . Things you need to get through the month of writing your Camp Nanowrimo project.

• Outlines
• Notes
• Character sketches

Most of this is my notebooks

• Colorful pens
• Tyneol (between hand cramps and headache)
• Empty notebooks
• Backpack (so I can take my writing every where I go.)

As I am writing 30,000 words by hand

• Calendar (for word count and appointment)
• Coffee with my creamer
• Caffeinated soda (I write weird hours)
• Candy or a treat (word sprints can wear you out)
• Timer or clock for word sprints
• Mom to go on walks with. . . (Too much writing can strain my eyes)

I’m keeping it simple this year.