#WritersCoffeeClub May 21: What targets do you set for yourself? To what frequency?
When I first started out, summer vacation before my mom made me figure out volunteer work to look like everyone else applying to college, I set a minimum of a chapter a day. With the time of youth, I managed it, right up until I was doing unpaid labor.
I no longer set targets for myself, because I work full time and don't have the time of youth. I write to enjoy myself. When I was considering quitting $old_job, I took a week of vacation and proved I could turn my creativity into a job, but that brought a very different mindset.
I could make it my work if I needed to, get my nose to the grindstone, do a chapter a day or some programming goal, but... I already have a job. The last time I let anyone convince me to take it as a *second* job, I ended up so miserable that I almost stopped, and it wasn't until I gave myself permission to call myself a hobbyist that I was able to pick up the pieces.
