Mesnard’s “Glory Road” progress:
It’s hard to explain the reason why, but I’m feeling mighty ambitious this year. Maybe basking in hitting my goal from last year; maybe senility – but I decided to try something dangerous. Creatively dangerous that is…
Instead of a new year’s resolution, I decided to have a month-by-month roadmap: with secondary goals as well. Maybe I’ll falter- or maybe I’ll exceed my expectations.
For a full rundown of the declaration, hit the jump.
So here’s my month-by-month plan: or rather, the primary aims of the year:
January: Minimum 10,000 words added to my Nano ’11 novel. FAILURE
February: Make a play for Script Frenzy [Screnzy]; 20,000 words added to my Nano ’11 novel.
March: Prepare screenplay for Screnzy. Host mixer? Plan presentation? 10,000 words added to my Nano ’11 novel.
April: Script Frenzy! 100 page/finished screenplay draft to “win” this endeavor. Including adding to Nano ’11 novel, at least a combined 10,000 words written.
May: 20,000 words added to Nano ’11 novel.
June: Add 10,000 words to my Nano ’11 novel and/or complete [at least] the first draft of my Nanowrimo ’11 novel. Order my free copies via CreateSpace by the 30th.
July: Complete short [holiday?] story. Prepare to continue a previous Nanowrimo novel or decide to write something new (such as one of my “video game” adaptations).
August: Camp Nanowrimo! Write at least 50,000 words to “win” this endeavor.
September: Organizational period. Plan more on my long-in-the-works Star Wars story? Catch up on blog posts? Work on any secondary goals?
October: Prep for Nano ’12. Work on any secondary goals.
November: Nanowrimo! Write at least 50,000 words to “win” this endeavor.
December: BURN OUT. End of the line for 2012…
ALL of this doesn’t have to be done to have success. The idea is to have a progress bar and see how far I can fill it up throughout the year. Aside from what I tried laying out for the monthly goals, I have a list of secondary goals. They would have their own point system to supplement any shortcomings I encountered throughout the year. This includes:
•Read/finish at least four books.
•Post at least twelve times this year on this blog [Wordpress].
•Post at least twelve (combined) times this year on either SWG blogs.
•Write at least four short stories this year (coinciding with a “seasonal” estimate for publishing issues of Restless Anthology.
Even though I have so much outlined for this year, I don’t have to do it all in order to satisfy my year’s road map. That is the beauty of my “Road to Glory” progress meter (which was inspired heavily from the NCAA Football’s “Campus Legend” style game mode).
Will I succeed? Will I figuratively combust and burn like a comet while tring to blaze this trail? Very possible.
