Goals

From what I have read, it is recommended that writers set goals for themselves. So I had to ask myself: "What exactly should my goals as a writer be?" After giving it some thought, I chose to make my goals small and few. After all, I am writing my first book "just for fun". Burdening myself with too many high powered goals would defeat the purpose of why I want to write. It would take all the fun out of it for me. So for the time being, here is what I have decided on as my goals:

Write at least one blog post per week. Setting this easily attainable goal for myself forces me once a week to give thought to the world of Spacemouse 9. Hopefully, this will keep me focused on the project and motivate me to continue making progress on the book.

Write blog posts that contribute to the back-story of Spacemouse 9. The works of literature that I find enjoyable (such as the books of J.R.R. Tolkien) have well developed back-stories. I hope to develop the Spacemouse 9 universe in the same way, all the while documenting my progress through blog posts. In theory, I will later be able to group these back-story posts together to form a sort of online encyclopedia or appendix. This appendix would contain details about the Spacemouse 9 universe that might be alluded to, but not fully explained in the book.

Expand the Spacemouse 9 blog. Currently, the Spacemouse 9 blog is a somewhat bare bones affair. I want to add more features to the blog including the aforementioned appendix as well as an "about the author" page and any other features that would befit a published *fingers crossed* author.

Looking over these goals I see that they each have more to do with blogging than they have to do with writing a book! Ah well, it just goes to show I am a blog writer first and a book writer second. And yes, I do have another blog, but I leave that story for another day.