{"id":220799,"date":"2021-02-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=220799"},"modified":"2022-12-21T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:08:53","slug":"setting-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/setting-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t deadlines when it comes to my writing\u2014I get enough of deadlines at work, I don&#8217;t need them in an activity that&#8217;s supposed to be a <em>hobby<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I am happy to set <em>goals<\/em>. <em>Goals<\/em> aren&#8217;t deadlines. Deadlines get you in to trouble if you miss them. <em>Goals<\/em>\u2026 Not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, my currently set <em>goal<\/em> is to complete the review of the first draft of <em>The Truths We Live<\/em> as soon as possible. I by <em>as soon as possible<\/em> I mean this weekend. Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurthsWeLive.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurthsWeLive.png 831w, https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurthsWeLive-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurthsWeLive-768x169.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I can do that, then the next goal to meet will be to set a release date and make a start of working on a marketing plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got 27 chapters to review. About 83,000 words. Wish me look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WordCount.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220805\" width=\"247\" height=\"500\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t deadlines when it comes to my writing\u2014I get enough of deadlines at work, I don&#8217;t need them in an activity that&#8217;s supposed to be a hobby.<br \/>\nBut I am happy to set goals. Goals aren&#8217;t deadlines. Deadlines get you in to trouble if you miss them. Goals\u2026 Not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"template-page-builder.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,2,9,15,63,14],"tags":[126,183,19,42,66,28,115],"class_list":["post-220799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-194","category-blog","category-novels","category-the-lies-we-lead","category-the-truths-we-live","category-westmouthshire","tag-editing","tag-first-draft","tag-the-lies-we-lead","tag-the-truths-we-live","tag-westmouth","tag-westmouthshire","tag-word-count"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}