Writing.Com General Discussion

I'm pressed for time this evening, but some thoughts...

A debut novel in certain genres is 70-100K words. That's a good target for almost any kind of book

Advice to write 300 words a day because in a year it's a book's worth is a decent metric. If you don't write every day, turn that into a 300x7 per week goal. Same diff.

Allocating yourself X hours per week (and actually do it) to write would be a good alternative goal.

Ken Liu says Goals are what can be achieved by your action. Milestones are what can be achieved by luck or what happens by working on your goals. Writing a book is a goal. Getting it published is luck, and that's a milestone.

Consider what you mean by goal. Ex. Write a book.
Break that job down.
Define characters and fill out worksheets
Outline it
Write the first draft
Edit the first draft
Let somebody read it
Revise

Those are all sub-tasks to the goal. That word count stuff only applies to 1 sub-task.