03_Weekly Goals Update: Winning

This week's challenge has proven to be easier than I imagined.  Well, except for last night when mid-shift I got famished and couldn't order myself anything to eat.  I just did what anyone else would do:  had a few drinks, went home and whipped up a late-night curry.  Outstanding.

Monday night was Shepherd's pie and Tuesday I made this beauty:

I present to you the Anti-Salad.  Sure it's got bacon, fried potatoes and hard-boiled egg, but it's got lots of green stuff!  And a homemade mustard vinaigrette.  That makes it healthy, right?  Right.

More food porn to come throughout the week.

I really am enjoying these little weekly goals.  It's because it is, when compared to writing, the exact opposite schedule.  When writing you can take your time, bang out a draft in a day (depending on the length of the story), work on it bit by bit, etc.  The only real "goal" is completion of a story, but that's a very vague and nearly impossible goal.  How do you really know when a story is complete?  And say you do reach a point where it is, if not 100% "complete", it is certainly publishable.  So you send it out and wait...four to six months while you do...what?

So having a goal for each week, having something clear-cut and well-defined to focus on is a nice break from the ill-defined, bad-habit inducing "schedule" of writing.  Now I have something to accomplish during the week that I can do easily while I continue to tell myself that I'm on-schedule with my writing without really knowing what that means, or what it would mean to be off-schedule.

- Kid