Welcome, everyone! To kick off AcWriMo, we are going to keep this short and sweet. After all, we have writing to do. Don't forget to sign up on the AcWriMo spreadsheet!
Let's just start with a short introduction of who you are, your goal for the month, your weekly goal, your daily goal if you have one, and, again if you have one, what your plan of attack is to accomplish your goal.
I'll start us off. I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Guelph's Centre for Scottish Studies. I'm also an adjunct and struggle with balancing my teaching responsibilities and the need to finish my never-ending dissertation.
AcWriMo Goal: write the introduction and finish the second chapter of my dissertation.
Weekly Goal: 2100 words added to chapter two, outline introduction
Daily Goal: 300 words per day
Plan of Attack: I don't normally do this, but I created a very strict schedule this week because it's going to be a crazy grading week and my weekend is busy with family/friend time (for once!). I scheduled two hours of writing Friday, Monday, and Wednesday; one hour on Sunday; and three hours Tuesday and Thursday to make up for no time on Saturday and a short session on Sunday. For Friday, Sunday, and Monday, I plan on simply adding notes from three sources I haven't included yet. Also on Monday I will look at the other sources for the chapter to determine which ones I need to work with the rest of the week. I'm hoping that the detailed schedule I created will help me focus more and get distracted less. I also built in time for all those annoying things that pop up every day that drain my time and energy for writing, so I guess I'll see how this goes.
What about you? What are your goals, your plans? Are you going to be as tightly scheduled as I am or are you taking a looser approach?
Happy kickoff! I don't have the luxury of focusing on a single project for AcWriMo because I have some deadlines coming up, so my plan is to finish the conference paper I'm presenting later this month, the book chapter due at the end of the month, and the book proposal I plan to send off as soon as I can.
ReplyDeleteI have a daily goal of 100 words. My hope is that this plan will help me create a writing habit, and that once I've written 100 words I'll be compelled to keep writing. We'll see how that rolls.
And, it's getting on toward late here and I haven't done any writing yet. So I'll best tend to that.
Glad you're joining me, Linda! Good luck creating a writing habit!
DeleteI'm an Associate Professor in Public Health Education who recently started a term as Associate Chair of my department. This means my writing output has dropped tremendously this semester. I have a paper with rather significant revisions due in December so I'm using AcWriMo as a way to get them completed.
ReplyDeleteI've never been good with word counts as a writing goal, so I've chosen to work for a minimum of half an hour a day on this paper throughout the month. I already missed with Day One but am on track today.
My goal for this week is to get something accomplished on the revision to the lit review section.
Glad you're joining us for the month and congrats on not letting missing one day derail you!
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ReplyDeleteI'm an English teacher at a private girls' high school (FGS), and November is a tricky month because it's the end of our trimester, with exams right before Thanksgiving. But this school year has been driving me crazy thus far because I'm acting chair of the department this year while the real chair is on sabbatical, and it's sucked up all kinds of time and energy such that I feel like I'm racing around all the time keeping up with school stuff while not doing any writing or other personal work. So my goal is to change that this month. I've got a modest goal -- 2000 words on the current chapter I'm writing -- which should be entirely do-able even with the end of term and will help me to feel that I'm back on track with writing.
Yay! Glad you're joining, too! Good luck finding the balance between work demands and writing demands. I can't wait to hear how you do that because I struggle with it, too.
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