Over the past few months, in an effort to advance my art site and writing site, I keep setting goals for myself around the number of writing and art posts I will publish each month. When I define these goals, meeting them seems relatively easy — mostly because I still have old story/poem pieces, plus some old hand-drawn art — that I can scan, clean up, and publish. But there are several challenges in meeting these goals:
-
- Art vs Writing – Spending time with my writings reduces the time available for me to spend with my art, and vice versa
- Old vs New – Posting old stuff is interesting, but it doesn’t fulfill my need to be creative
- Value – Much of the stuff still unpublished is that way for a reason — because it isn’t necessarily that great
- Quality – Framing goals in terms of ‘number of posts’ puts too much emphasis on quantity, and too little emphasis on quality
As such, I think I will now view things differently:
-
- Overall View – I will set a goal across all my sites: writing + art + blog
- Time – I will think of my goal in terms of hours invested, and not in terms of post count
- Creativity – I will continue to post (occasional) scans of existing writings and art — while also making sufficient time to create new items
- Other Fun – I will also ensure that I am allowing time for other fun: social events, exercising, enjoying the summer weather, etc.
Side Note – I deleted all games and time-consuming social apps from my phone — to eliminate the time I was wasting on these, and allow more time for creativity and real fun