Tag: Goals
2022 Goal Check – First Quarter
Well, it’s the end of the first quarter of 2022. Time to check on how I’m doing on my goals for the year: 2022 Goals – the expurgated version (the one without the gannet). For the full version see my January 16th, 2022 blog, https://dennisamadorcherry.com/writing/2022-goals/ POLISH OFF MY FIRST STEAMPUNK […]
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From Wannabe Writer…
I’m working through, “Your Goal Guide”, be Debra Eckerling. http://thedebmethod.com/yourgoalguide/ And I say “working through” because there are exercises, meditations, keeping a journal, etc. It’s one of the twelve books I want to read this year, but it’s one that I will go through one or two chapters a week. […]
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2022 Goals
My overall goal is to become a published author and start a career as a writer. This would then lead to my second goal to become a screenwriter. But realistically, having no track record as a screenwriter, a production company would probably buy the rights to my novel and hire […]
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2021 Goals
Back on January 17th of last year, I listed some goals I wanted to achieve in 2021. Let’s see how I did. 2021 Goals Finish my second steampunk screenplay. This includes making changes based on the feedback from my critique group. This will still be a vomit draft in the […]
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Coming Into the Home Stretch
The year has been passing by fast. Now that we are in October, we are crashing towards Christmas. Of course, the shutdown doesn’t help. With fewer places to go, one week seems pretty much like the others. There are fewer time markers, like, “In March we went to SLO, in […]
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I Wish My Friends Would Stop Getting Older
Late this past week I found out on Facebook that an old friend of ours passed away. I met Therri about 34 years ago when I joined the Star Trek fan club, the U.S.S. Achernar. She was then part of the group that shuttled off (created a new fan club) […]
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Making Progress
Now it’s the end of the second quarter of 2021. Let’s see how I’m doing on my goals: 2021 Goals Finish my second steampunk screenplay. This includes making changes based on the feedback from my critique group. This will still be a vomit draft in the range of 200 pages. […]
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One Screenplay, One Novel, One Book and a Bunch of Comic Books
It’s the beginning of a new year, well, seventeen days into it, so I thought I’d share my goals for the year. It’s important to set goals, that’s how you can measure your progress. During the years I’ve taken up writing seriously again, I have finished three screenplays, and now […]
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THE END – Now the work begins
This past week, I finally finished novelizing the first of my steampunk trilogy screenplays. It took about nine or ten months to do. I originally thought I would finish in November, but then my day job started kicking my posterior. This isn’t a vomit draft, a first draft where you […]
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Write on, Brother, Write on!
I had four events scheduled in April, all of them were cancelled. So, I’ve just been accumulating vacation time at work. With the 4th of July coming up I thought I’d take a week off and have ten straight days away from work. What am I going to do with […]
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