goals – Gideon P. Smith

Aspirational Bios

I often write about meeting writing goals: setting SMART goals, psychological tricks to make writing habits stick, and circumnavigating writer’s block. But one thing essential in reaching your goals is knowing clearly what they are. Do you know clearly what you should be working on right now? One trick from the life-skills and coaching literatureContinueContinue reading “Aspirational Bios”

Video Game Psychology for Writers: Achieving Writing Goals through Gamification

I have been fortunate to write guest blog posts before for SFWA on science, and my latest one is on using the psychological science utilized in video games to help you meet your writing goals. The link to it is below. I hope you enjoy, and as always, please do reach out to me directlyContinueContinue reading “Video Game Psychology for Writers: Achieving Writing Goals through Gamification”

Setting SMARTER Writing Goals – Part II

So in the first part I reviewed the acronym SMARTER. If you haven’t read that, this part won’t make sense so if you’d like to review just go here. For those of you up to date, we had used this framework to create an example goal saying that if what I was excited about wasContinueContinue reading “Setting SMARTER Writing Goals – Part II”