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#writersCoffeeClub 21 May: What targets do you set for yourself? To what frequency? I don't set wordcount goals anymore. I try to remind myself that this is not my full-time gig, and trying to hit large numbers is only going to make me feel sad. At best, I have time goals (in the sense of "be up by 6 and spend an hour sitting in front of the manuscript") and deadlines. Right now, I'm working on a second draft that I think I'd like to release sometime between November and February, so I don't have anything too concrete. Maybe when I finish this pass I will ask my editor if they could take a look at it around the end of the summer. (Although I don't know---depends a lot on how well it's working.) I'd like to say something sweeping, like "I finish the first draft of a book in 8 weeks," but it has really depended on the book and what else I'm doing. I've written books very quickly and books that took a year. It just depends.