{"id":10948,"date":"2012-01-11T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=10948"},"modified":"2012-01-10T21:30:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T08:30:22","slug":"what-im-doing-my-writing-goal-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/what-im-doing-my-writing-goal-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Doing: My Big Writing Goal for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Those of you who are following me on this new-fangled (ok, ok, for me, not the wider ‘verse!) Twitter thing should already have picked up that the Christmas-New Year holiday is now over and I’m back to work. So far, I’m not matching Rachel Aaron’s<\/strong> 10,000-12,000 words per day (you can read all about how she does it, here<\/a>) or Brandon Sanderson’s<\/strong><\/a> 10 hours a day (as discussed in our blog interview late last year here<\/a>) but I am slowly getting into the groove—and I do have a writing goal for the year.<\/p>\n

Basically, it’s this: I would like to try and complete Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/strong>, The Wall of Night Book Three<\/strong>, by 31 July of this year–without compromising on the quality of the work.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The only book I’ve managed in this kind of timeframe before is Thornspell<\/em><\/strong> and it is around 1\/3 the proposed size of Daughter of Blood<\/strong><\/em>. So I am definitely setting myself a challenge with this. On the other hand, I found myself getting really good momentum both last year and in the final quarter of 2010 with The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong>—and as my personal view is that Gathering<\/em> is the best book I have written yet (how’s that for nailing one’s authorial colours to the mast?) I don’t believe quality necessarily has to suffer as a result of commitment to improving one’s time\/output ratio.<\/p>\n

So what do I think I need to do\/set in place to achieve this goal:<\/p>\n