Writing Goals Update 2/24/2019

Helpful Resources:
- How I Stopped Sabotaging My Writing Goals: Confessions of a Late Bloomer by Andrea Jarrell at Writer's Digest
- Twenty Steps to Writing Great Love Scenes by Karen Wiesner on Writing-World.com
- Maximizing Writing Productivity While Working Full-Time by Audrey Wick at Writer's Digest 

Status Update:

1. Words written this week: 2,450. I met or exceeded my GYWO daily quota (411 words) four times. 

2. Write 4+ mornings a week: Achieved.

3. Friday Morning Writer Date: Achieved. Unfortunately, during the date I discovered that my laptop may be dying, so I have mixed feelings about this event this week.

4. Write two original stories: No specific progress this week. However, I created a character and wrote a scene for my Gotham Writers Workshop Character Development course this week, so I did do some work in this family. 

5. Write to prompts for story ideas: Achieved. I had to make a lot of lists for my Character Development course and I started doing some exercises from the book Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, which features prompts and exercises provided by a variety of fiction (and perhaps also nonfiction) authors. The exercises in this book are similar to the ones in Steering the Craft in that they include a lot of introductory material and context, which I like. 

6. Post personal fanfic: No specific progress this week. I'm still working on the same recipient-oriented gothic horror project from a few weeks ago. I wrote a first draft longhand and now I'm rewriting it as I type it up, and things are going slooooooow.

7. Craft on My Commute:  Achieved. This week was a mix of Gotham Writers Workshop lecture content, the Story Grid and podcasts (DIY MFA and Writing Excuses). The Writing Excuses podcasts are particularly useful for commuting because they are about 15-20 minutes long (the length of a painful Green Line connection) and there a ton of them.