Goals

Although I didn’t start this challenge out as a means for me to blog about my personal life, I’m sure it will come up from time to time. It isn’t that I don’t want people having some sort of idea about the details of my life, it is that I would prefer that I tell them, rather than them reading it off of my writing challenge blog. That being said, I’m sure that at some point through out the course of my 500-word a day challenge, there will be some sort of blog style post.

Have no fear, for today is not that day.

In my excitement to start a challenge to myself, I failed to make my very first entry here have anything to do with my goals. I feel that it is important to not only me, but anyone who happens to read this, to have a clear and concise idea of what my goals are. They may change over time, or they may not. It doesn’t really matter that much though.

Anyway, here is a list of what I hope to accomplish with my 500-word a day blog/challenge:

1.     Stop writing everything in lists. I get the irony of the fact that I’m currently making a list, but ideally, I’m going to not do this much. I’ll save my lists for grocery shopping, ideas to write about, and reminders to myself.

2.     Write. Write everyday, about anything. It doesn’t matter what, as long as I’m spending some sort of time writing. I love writing, and since leaving college, I’ve severely neglected doing so. That bums me out.

3.     Improve my writing. I’d like to see a progression of improvement over time. Whether a month or three months, I should have managed to improve my writing in one-way or another. Maybe I’ll form more powerful sentences, or my character development will get more in depth, or my word vocabulary will grow. Whatever the improvement is, I just want to get there.

4.     Further develop my writing style. I write the way I think, and sometimes I write the way I speak, but neither are always very concise nor stick to one single point. I need a clear writing voice or style.

5.     For every day that I miss writing, I have to add that day’s word count to my next entry, or do multiple entries in a day to cover that 500-word minimum. If, one day I go well over the 500-word minimum, it does not count towards the following days’ goal.

6.     Don’t turn this into a diary or journal. It is one thing to write about struggles, thoughts on a subject, or personal goals. It is a completely different thing to write about how happy a lover makes me, or how angry I am at a coworker. If I absolutely must write something that is journal style, it had better be for a damn good reason, and be very well written.

If anyone is reading this, I do welcome suggestions for writing prompts or topics, criticism, and encouragement.

With all that being said, to whoever is reading this, I appreciate it. I hope you’ll stick around for a while. Or, maybe we’re friends and you’ll say to me one day while we’re out getting froyo or seeing a movie, “gee, it sure would be neat if you wrote about ____________ in your blog.”

Total word count: 567