surrealist

For example, reading x number of books, submitting x number of times/pieces, or writing x number of stories/poems/novels per year?
Or do you do things in a more free-form style?

Destroyer

Finishing a book before the half-year mark. The rest of the year is given to editing and making changes.

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enron1982

I don't think that you can put a specific number on pieces, but you can on daily word count. Pieces range in length, so that jsut wouldn't be logical. I try to write around 2 or 3 thousand words a day, though. I fluctuate. I read in all of my spare time, but once again, everything's different in length. I think putting a number on how much you read is insane anyway, it's supposed to be leisure and fun, and that would just make it seem more like a job.

Hobbes

It's definitely possible - and logical - as a motivational guide. For example, if you made a goal to write 1+ story per month, that would result in 12 stories a year. And what would it matter if they ranged in lengths? Who says every story has to be 2000 words long? The purpose there might be to get one used to writing regularly, and *finishing* pieces instead of leaving half-written drafts everywhere. And on reading, I could see the same thing done for someone looking to read more; aiming for at least 1 book per month-->12 books per year. Most people can still manage to have fun while setting goals - or at least, I can...

Patrick Beverley

Only a daily goal: to write 200 words.

ClancyBoy

My goal is to write at all, and I'm happy when I do. I have concentration problems...

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DamionAlexander

I just try to write something every day, even if it's only adding a few words to the novel rotting in the back of my computer.

Lost in Some Story

Oh DamionAlexander, I'm sure your novel isn't rotting. It's aging like fine wine. Or at the very least, pickling.

Lost

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Lost in Some Story

If I write a little every day, I'm happy.

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Writer Kitten

I usually set a yearly goal. (last year was 500k, this year 700k) I tend to make it when I have that.

However, this year, I won't have NaNo bolstering my numbers. I just don't have the drive to edit one novel, write another, submit a short story and do NaNo. I think my brain would fall out in self defence.

Oh. Wait... it already does that.

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lisajane

I stick with free-form, mainly because I switch between the hobbies of writing and drawing, so I don't necessarily write every day.

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Rumrunner

Yes. Then, without fail, I proceed to miss every single one of them. I have one ongoing project that, by my own estimates, is roughly eight years behind schedule. Seriously. And several others that are at least a year or two behind.

Lately, I've been getting so stressed about how far behind with my writing I am that every time I sit down to write I wind up hyperventilating and writer's blocked and producing nothing. I figure at this rate, soon I'll be such a nervous wreck that I'll have something actually worth writing about...

Rumrunner

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ClancyBoy

Allow me to help.

Your project is on schedule to be one of the best-aged and best thought-out there ever was. Ulysses and Lord of the Rings each took about a decade.

If you've stuck with it after 8 years it's probably a pretty good idea.

There, feel better? Now write.

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RomanticRose

Six pages of raw creative work a day, 6 days a week. At least 4 hours of editing and polishing raw work.

Ilasir Maroa

Ditto;

I have a lot of other stuff I do, so I work hard to stick at least a page or to into my schedule for at least one of the pieces I have going at the time, and then I do a lot of thinking when I can't access paper and a pen(or a computer).

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