Tough fiction day for me. I realized that what I treat often as a flood of writing is more like a slow drip… a trickle if you will. I had the opportunity to assess how much I’ve written over the last 6 years and the total came to 2 novels, 2 novellas, and 17 sourcebooks. That translates to roughly 3 source books a year, a novel and a novella every three. That is trash. I should be doing twice the volume I am doing now at least. I want to see 6 sourcebooks and 1 novel a year on average and perhaps more–maybe toss a novella in there as well. I need to be doing more as a writer, because volume is how I personally get good and stay in the flow of writing. The more I write, the better I write. I have gone on and on about the fits and starts, and this revelation really explains how these things get going.
So, my next step is to develop a writing plan–a schedule that seriously lays out each and every day moving forward and how that day/week/month/year tracks with my creation goals. I don’t know that a person can achieve goals without actually having some. I have proven aimless for a long time in that respect, and seeing where I am vs. where I expected to be helps me focus on where I want to be in the near future. It is entirely up to me to hammer out a realistic schedule that allows me to get there.