Goals for 2012

It was a close thing at points (at least, Reread of the Hawk was), but this blog here is back in business and likely to stay that way. That being said, it definitely needs some work, and I have a few goals in mind to get things moving around here:

- Get the Reread of the Hawk posts out in a timely manner. At first I actually thought I’d be able to do two a week; obviously that didn’t work, but I haven’t been that good at even doing once a week, and for the second half I’m hoping to change that. The goal as of now is once a week on Saturdays or Sundays.

 -  Actually write about other stuff. This isn’t supposed to be the Berserk version of A Blog of Ice and Fire; that was just something I intended to start off with because I wanted to try my hand at blogging about a reread and so that I’d have something to post consistently at first (see above) while I thought of other things to write about (see below). Reread of the Hawk isn’t going anywhere, if only because the other reason for doing it was to prove to myself that I could see a personal project through, but it’s also been over four months since I wrote about anything else. I intend to change that.

 -  Develop more focus. I jumped into blogging with the intent on improving my writing and work ethic, but with little real idea of a particular focus. Fantasy fiction will definitely be part of it, and probably writing too, but about what topics in either field? What do I have to say that’s worth saying and others wouldn’t cover better? Those are the questions that need to be answered going forward.

 -  Comment more on other blogs and join some forums. Won’t be able to build much of an audience if I don’t put myself out there more, and interaction with others is a great way to get inspiration and topics. I know I’ve wanted to at least comment on blogs I follow, but I’m rarely sure of anything meaningful to add and don’t want to comment just for the sake of doing so.

And that’s it for now. Step 1: get the post for Volume 19 finished by the end of the week. We’ll see how it goes from there.