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October 13th, 2009
Teen Author Challenge, Week 13 – Track it!
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Buzz Tip of the Week Sometimes when you’re cruising along with your goals, it helps to see your progress visually. I’m a big believer in making charts that I can check off because it makes me feel like I’m accomplishing great things. And really, who can resist shiny gold stars? But I also love technology, and this little gem is a fun way to track your progress on your goals. It’s called Joe’s Goals and you can enter your weekly goals, check them off (it puts nice little smiley faces when you accomplish a task), and see at a glance how you’re doing. And it’s not just for writing either. It’s great for tracking all of your weekly goals, from household duties to practicing to working out. A very Jack-of-all-trades kind of tool (or a Joe-of-all-trades, as the case may be.) Check it out and see if it motivates you to keep up the pace with your weekly writing goals! Your Weekly Challenge How did you do on your writing last week? Comment below with your weekly results from last Tuesday through today so we can cheer your progress! And let us know how you’re tracking your progress each week. Do you have something you get to check off when you complete your writing assignments?
Go forth and be creative!
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I’m way behind the challenge. I need to try hard to keep up
Just take it one day at a time, Thao. Focus on what you can do each day to get your story rolling again and forget about everything before now. Today is all that matters.
You can do it!
My life has been crazy but i just caught up with all the Author challenges… My goals been 500-1000 words a day. Sometimes I find it hard to reach it but if I don’t make it one day, I try harder to make up for it the next.
When the story I’m working on doesn’t flow right I try to write something. Anything that comes to mind even if its a totally different story. I’m just happy to write…
Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!!
Best wishes,
Caitlin
Cheers to you for always writing something, Caitlin! If you need to work out a particular piece of your story, how great to do that while still keeping in the habit of regular writing. That’s a win-win!
I haven’t been entirely consistent getting my 30 minutes a day. It’s more than I did before the challenge, so I’m happy with that. The closer I get to becoming more consistent, the better.
I haven’t been keeping a tally of days that I met my goal. It’s a good idea. When I was training for a marathon it was over the course of a year and a half. Every day’s exercise was planned out. I marked each day’s activity off and was glad to see so many weeks go by. I’m going to make something like that for myself. You’re right, Kay. There’s just something so motivating about checking things off or getting a smiley!
Good luck to everyone on their goals!
Writing a book and training for a marathon… what a great parallel! Writing a book often feels like training for a marathon (minus the sports injuries and physical exhaustion) because you have to take it one day at a time. One chapter at a time. One page at a time. You can’t sit down and write a book all in one sitting any more than you can go out and run a marathon the very first day. (For most people, anyway.) But every day that you make progress toward your goal gets you closer to the end result you want.
Let us know what kind of tracking chart you come up with, Cari!