Tag: Goals

The Three Worst Ways to Lose Weight

If you follow my quarterly goal reviews, you know one of my goals is to lose weight.  A pound a month until I’m down to 190 pounds at the end of the year.  I generally just watch what I eat during the week and ease up to enjoy the weekends.  […]

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Second Quarter 2023 GOALS Check

We’re halfway through the year and it’s time to see how I’m doing on my goals.  Below is my full list, but let’s do a quick overview first. WRITING:  Goals 1 – 3.  This is a bit tricky to determine how I’m doing.  Some of them I’ve completed.  But the […]

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The D.E.P. (Derail Every Plan) Method

I’m in two critique groups, one for novels and one for screenplays.  My novel group met yesterday and chapters 4 and 5 of my first steampunk novel were up. The great thing about being in a critique group is that, while all will comment on story structure and characters, different […]

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Goals!

It’s the end of the first quarter of the year and time to see how I’m doing on my goals. SECOND STEAMPUNK SCREENPLAY: Finish editing through it: It stands at 163 pages at the moment.  I’d like to get it down to at least 143 pages, the length of the […]

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Falling Behind

Next week, I will be reviewing my goals for the first quarter of 2023.  I’m doing pretty good in most categories, except one, which is arguably the most important one.  My writing.  I should have finished chapter three of my second novel by now, but I’m still on chapter one. […]

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Oh, no, Here We Go!

Starting a new novel can be intimidating, but also exciting.  And it’s one of my major goals of the year:  Write a new novel and write a new screenplay.  While I’m still working on trimming my second steampunk screenplay, it is at the point that I can novelize it. Actually, […]

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Off to a Good Start

It may be two months early to review my goals, but as I was marking my progress for the month, I realized how much I accomplished.  Some of it, like trying new recipes, I wasn’t even trying.  I just love trying new recipes I find. It’s important to break down […]

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2023 GOALS

New year, time for new goals.  Taking from what I learned last year, I’m trying to make more realistic goals, breaking them down into smaller sub-goals, and keeping in mind that discipline will be a key to some of these. SECOND STEAMPUNK SCREENPLAY: Finish editing through it: It stands at […]

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2022 Goals – the expurgated version (the one without the gannet).  End of Year Edition.

For the full version, see my January 16th, 2022 blog https://dennisamadorcherry.com/writing/2022-goals/ POLISH OFF MY FIRST STEAMPUNK NOVEL: I plan to have this done by Presidents’ Day.  Well… yes and no.  It wasn’t by Presidents’ Day, but I did polish off my novel.  The last step was to have Kris read […]

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2022 Goals – the expurgated version (the one without the gannet).  Third Quarter Edition.

For the full version see my January 16th, 2022 blog, https://dennisamadorcherry.com/writing/2022-goals/ POLISH OFF MY FIRST STEAMPUNK NOVEL: I plan to have this done by Presidents’ Day.  I did it!  I finished it.  Kris and I went through the whole thing line by line.  I got it as ready as I […]

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