Development Timeline
No plan survives contact with the enemy, but they're fun to have around anyways.
Below are timelines for goals I hope to reach each year I'm here on WA. They include goals for both worlds I work on - talos for wow that's a lot of stars, and YAHN for You Are Here Now - as well as combination goals that apply to both worlds. I update this roughly monthly, around when I post my monthly update journals.
For my first full calendar year on World Anvil, I've front-loaded my tasks with the expectation that many will be pushed to later months. This year will be a trial to see what I can reasonably accomplish, and whether this format is a good way to track it all.
Winter
(talos) Copy generic articles to more appropriate templates.
(talos) Format those articles in their more appropriate templates.
(talos) Write about psionics.
(talos) Publish the Visitor's Guide.
(talos) Submit to the Worldbuilding Awards!
(yahn) Write and post Monstrous book 1 scenes 3-8.
(yahn) Create a 'start reading' entrypoint.
(both) Tidy up redundant custom CSS classes.
(both) Begin mobile-friendly CSS updates.
Spring
(talos) Write about space pirates and promote How to Pirate Space.
(talos) Update the Visitor's Guide.
(talos) Prepare for Summer Camp.
(talos) Celebrate winners of the Worldbuild Awards!
(yahn) Write and post Monstrous book 1 scenes 9-end. 3-8.
(both) Continue mobile-friendly CSS.
Summer
(talos) Promote How to Pirate Space.
(talos) Pride Month event:
2024 Show Your Colors Challenge.
(talos) Summer Camp!
(yahn) Begin Monstrous book 2 with scenes 1-6.
(yahn) Continue Monstrous book 1.
(meta) Create meta world and move event and guide articles to it.
Autumn
(talos) Begin existential horror writing about space.
WorldEmber!
(yahn) Write and post Monstrous book 2 scenes 7-end.
(yahn) Continue Monstrous book 1.
Winter
Coming soon!
Spring
Coming soon!
Summer
Coming soon!
Autumn
Coming soon!
Good luck! I deleted my dev timeline because I never updated it! Maybe I should use it more like this, instead...
In my experience, it requires figuring out a balance between forcing yourself to stick with a scheduling method, and finding a method that you don't mind forcing yourself to use. I'm not sure if this will be it for me, but I'm excited to find out!
Speculative-Fiction Writing
Good luck! I hope it works!