Writing-or other-goals for 2024

[lovecraft68]

December is around the corner and as people start getting busy closer to Christmas I figured I'd start this thread before the holiday madness fully kicks in.

What are your writing goals for the upcoming year? You can also list non writing goals if you choose to.

 

[lovecraft68]

My one writing goal is to get back to the horror series that I've been stuck on for several years now. I published book three early in 2020 and began book four a few months later. I have the first part done and various chapters written in no real order as I followed ideas that came to me. But its been a mess since and I can't tie it together, and realize I'm plagued by story lines I created in book three that didn't need to exist.

I've seriously considered re-writing book three-mostly removing a couple of chapters-but that throws a swerve to anyone who has read it thus far. I made a few efforts in 2022 with book four but got too frustrated to keep going. This year I didn't touch it at all, but I need to get back to it because the longer it goes, the more the chances are I never get to it.

Other than that my goal is to spend less time wasting time on the internet. Lit, You tube(the most dangerous time waster of all because you can find anything there and lots of it) E-bay and...internet porn which I feel I watch way too much of. I'd stop short of using the term "porn addiction' but I imagine I watch more than most people, and more than I need to considering I write it as well, and have a wife who's fine with my weird kinks so I think it alls under bad habit more than the catharsis it is for some people.

I'm also going to go in reverse of most people. I want to enjoy food more this year. I've stayed in shape my entire life and have always eaten healthy, which sometimes can suck. I allow myself a 'bad day" once a month where I'll pound down a couple of whoppers or something else shitty for you, but that's it.

I'm fifty five, and in this shit hole world I keep wondering how much time we all have left, so...what the hell am I doing? Not going off the deep end, but its time to start being a bad a lot more often. Self denial for close to 40 years is getting old. Bring on the fried food.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I plan to finish my "Opus 17 in D Minor - A Love Story in Four Movements" if my Muse will let me. Like Bruckner when writing his Ninth Symphony (he spent the last 9 years of his life and never finished it, probably because he spent a lot of time re-writing several of his earlier symphonies), it's taking way more time and effort than I planned when I started it. The Allegro (My Chevy Van) and Scherzo (A Lovely Day) have already been published but I'm stuck on the Adagio (Because I wanted to Love You). The Finale (Glory Road) is roughed out but not started yet.

Other than that, just to keep writing.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Finish that fan fic I put on hiatus to write the shit I've been writing. Hopefully finish the unfinished shit I have on my other account. More stuff for this pen name in general. More work on the stuff I wanna publish for money.

Get in shape, get a job, hopefully get on some of these bicycle projects. Dread existance more.

 

[StillStunned]

I just want to keep writing.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I just want to keep writing.

Same here and get better at it. I did nearly 200K words in my first year of writing without setting any goals. I don't think I'll change my formula. I honestly never imagined writing erotica as a permanent hobby. When I started in October 2021, I thought I had two or three stories in me and that would be that. Up to 18 now and really enjoying it. What a weird life.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Figuring out if I have the motivation to continue writing here or not. I've set some short-term goals about reposting all my edited and "fixed" old stuff and writing a couple of new ones, but even though I have a gazillion ideas about future stories, some of them worked out in a decent amount of detail, I am not sure about having the motivation to commit to the gargantuan amount of work required to put those ideas into actual stories. We'll see.

 

[lovecraft68]

Smashwords. Maybe Amazon, too.

Let me know if you need any help with SW.

 

[SimonDoom]

My writing goals always have an asterisk attached to them, which signifies "subject to change, procrastination, ennui, and total abandonment, and likely to draw a snarky and justifiably skeptical guffaw from ElectricBlue66."

That said, for 2024 I hope to finish my two unfinished series, publish at least 20 stories (a chapter being a story), finish the movie screenplay I've been working on, and make substantial progress on a non-erotic novel I've been working on. I have a few stories in particular that I've been futzing over that I'd like to finish once and for all. I suppose my main goal is that by the end of 2024 I'd like to be confident that I'm a better writer than I was at the end of 2023.

 

[bumpercars]

Keep reading, keep writing, and avoid getting burned out.

 

[SimonDoom]

My one writing goal is to get back to the horror series that I've been stuck on for several years now. I published book three early in 2020 and began book four a few months later. I have the first part done and various chapters written in no real order as I followed ideas that came to me. But its been a mess since and I can't tie it together, and realize I'm plagued by story lines I created in book three that didn't need to exist.

I've seriously considered re-writing book three-mostly removing a couple of chapters-but that throws a swerve to anyone who has read it thus far. I made a few efforts in 2022 with book four but got too frustrated to keep going. This year I didn't touch it at all, but I need to get back to it because the longer it goes, the more the chances are I never get to it.

Other than that my goal is to spend less time wasting time on the internet. Lit, You tube(the most dangerous time waster of all because you can find anything there and lots of it) E-bay and...internet porn which I feel I watch way too much of. I'd stop short of using the term "porn addiction' but I imagine I watch more than most people, and more than I need to considering I write it as well, and have a wife who's fine with my weird kinks so I think it alls under bad habit more than the catharsis it is for some people.

I'm also going to go in reverse of most people. I want to enjoy food more this year. I've stayed in shape my entire life and have always eaten healthy, which sometimes can suck. I allow myself a 'bad day" once a month where I'll pound down a couple of whoppers or something else shitty for you, but that's it.

I'm fifty five, and in this shit hole world I keep wondering how much time we all have left, so...what the hell am I doing? Not going off the deep end, but its time to start being a bad a lot more often. Self denial for close to 40 years is getting old. Bring on the fried food.

You should write a horror/crime novel. Write a novel that gets all this stuff inside of you out of you. Come up with the worst woman-hating villain you can think of, and create a woman detective whose job is to track him down and bring him to justice. You obviously have the story-telling skills to do it. Wouldn't that feel good?

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I don't like the term 'goals'. It just smacks as materialistic jive, like some stockbroker or bullshit salesman talking about gaining success by making goals and hitting them when all they are really doing is stepping on others with their bully greed. I do have some targets though, some things that I'd like to try to accomplish. The calendar has nothing to do with it, no using January the first as some excuse for focusing.

I have a noir novella that I've been working on for over a year. It's currently at 26k and I figure that it will weigh in at somewhere around 40-45k. I'd like to have it finished by the spring. The plot is all laid out but I'm not entirely happy with the ending.

I have a high school revenge plot that I like that I have outlined for seven chapters and each chapter will be in a different category. Each chapter will probably be 3-6k.

I have a steamy short that I have started. Perhaps it can be finished by January. It will probably end up under 10k.

I have an idea for the hijinx of an all girl garage band that I'd like to get started (and finish).

I'd like to get started in earnest on my next novel - my first really good one - and getting in actually published, probably smashwords or something.

I've been largely a hermit the past couple of years. It's been great for my writing but not so great for my relationships. I'd like to maintain better contact with my family and friends.

I've also been too sedentary. I can feel it in my body, in my bones. I sit at this chair and read and write too much. I need to get up and do more - be more active. I know that it will make my time in the chair more productive too.

 

[R. Richard]

I need to replace one of my publishers, as I get no sales and no responce. I may have found a replacement. In the meantime, I need more sales.

 

[WyreBendr0417]

I'm hoping to get back into writing. For the past month or two I've been in a funk where I don't even want to look at anything I've started. When I do open a project, all I can think, is that it's complete shit and needs to be burned. I've come close to deleting my entire writing folder several times, and it may still happen, yet.

 

[Paul_Chance]

My general writing goal is structural - I retired last year (early) and am feeling the need to put more structure around my writing life - set times, word counts, etc.

Adjacent to that, I plan on making 2024 a year of learning, with improving and expanding my French for the year.

I'm sure other goals will arise as I get closer to the end of the year.

 

[tenyari]

Largely I want to achieve the goals I set out for 2023.

2023 has been one of the worst years I've had since the early 90s and that took me away from writing right as I was getting into the swing of things.

So I have 4 story series I want to get wrapped up or out there. I have some very specific stories I want to complete, and hopefully I will be able to at least get some of them done.

 

[lovecraft68]

You should write a horror/crime novel. Write a novel that gets all this stuff inside of you out of you. Come up with the worst woman-hating villain you can think of, and create a woman detective whose job is to track him down and bring him to justice. You obviously have the story-telling skills to do it. Wouldn't that feel good?

I did that with Every Dog Has Its Day back in 2015(I think).

I have a similar character in this series, but he's one of many and varied characters. I think the big issue is simply making it too complicated. Fell under the "this is cool, and oh, that's cool too and..." and now I have way too many things going on, and none of its cool.

 

[Mastered_again]

I'd like to bring my series to its conclusion. I just hope recent distractions (i.e., life) settle back down.
Hoping to take a road trip to Clarksdale, MS, adding Memphis and possibly Nashville to the list. Also pending for aforementioned reason.

 

[Stimtheone]

My goal is to try another website and do a story with some particular content in it. Something GOOD, possibly in the same 'verse as DE, but not exactly the same world.

Though my current goal is to try and finish Rots before Christmas. I might fail that. It's not going as quickly as I wanted.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Damnit, Lovecraft, I'm not through my goals for 2023 yet - okay, here we go...

1) A 2023 goal was to write in every category (excluding Audio, Illustrated, Non-English and Chain Stories). I've nearly done that adding Trans, Fetish, NonCon, Gay, NonHuman, LW, Group, Toys, Lesbian and Letters to my publications this year. That leaves only 6 left to go: Mature (shouldn't be a problem as I've done age differences in other stories, still looking for a specific hook though), Mind Control (have something started in drafts, but, meh...), How To (again, working on something, close to completion), NonErotic (no idea, putting a non-erotic story on an erotic story website seems counter-intuitive), Celebrities (I look in this category and I have no idea who anyone in the stories are - probably going to do something with Marilyn Monroe) and finally...

2) Novels - I've got three half-written. This year has been terrible for long scale stories. I've only published one submission over 10k words (compared with 5 last year). Probably because my ambitions are becoming more ambitous and I'm doing planning for novel lengths stories, but not sitting down and putting in the leg work. My April Fools submission from last year missed the deadline and is sitting at 40k words basically complete, though I am going to go back and add some extra gratuitous sex scenes and do some reorganization. After that, we'll see if I can actually focus on finishing the other two.

3) Sequels and Continuations - I've got 42 stories on here currently and I've only ever done one Part Two. I've recently written a few stories with nominally the same named girlfriend character, but they still all work stand-alone. I've got a handful of characters who are ripe for further development. I should probably try to sit down and write three or four satisfying episodes from the same character in a row, but, I write what I can write at any given moment, so I don't know.

4) Red H's - I stated my goal was to get to 50% Hot over all my stories - I think this is a reasonable balance between maintaining quality and not being afraid to tackle more unconventional, controversial, weirder or niche stuff. I'm currently technically at 45% (up from 40% last year), but a few stories are still collecting votes and tottering on the edge, and I'm probably going to hit 50% by the New Year.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

My goal for 2023 and hopefully 2024 is to have at least one story published every month. So far, this year, I'm on track with only December to go. Hopefully, if I get my Holiday story done on time, that'll take care of December.

I've got several stories that need final chapters, and I'm hoping I get them done in 2024.

I might also look into Smashwords and trying to get a story on Amazon.

 

[HeyAll]

Growing my Patreon subscribers base.

For Lit, my goal is the same. I have a long list of story ideas that I have, but I had a dry spell of Halloween and Winter this year. I couldn't connect my ideas with those themes this time around. These days I focus on Incest, Lesbian, Illustrated. Places like Group Sex and Anal have less readers these days.

 

[TheDeepThinker]

I'd just like for my stories to get published. 2022 was a great year on Literotica for me, but between the AI-flagging issues and publication taking months, I just want to be able to publish stories again. At the very least, I'd like to hear some public acknowledgment from Laurel that these issues are happening.

 

[Cagivagurl]

December is around the corner and as people start getting busy closer to Christmas I figured I'd start this thread before the holiday madness fully kicks in.

What are your writing goals for the upcoming year? You can also list non writing goals if you choose to.

Writing goals....
I'm already behind....
Pile of Christmas cards waiting on the coffee table...
Tired sigh inserted here.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I have been pondering doing an audio book. Hopefully I'll come up with an actual plot for my fantasy novel that's 78k words in already. I've also thought about reading some things on youtube or tiktok, but I know the sex scenes won't fly.For now I just need to finish shit, and there's too much to finish.With like two stories jotted down in cue. From there, it's just getting this name on these sites with stories.