Measurable, specific, attainable, all these things, right?
Here's my 2015 goal: I want to be writing and editing text, as in chapter text, for NaNoWriMo, November 2015. Yeah, I know it's about novel writing. Yeah, I know that's ambitious.
I'm putting it out there, though. And I'm going to pick this blog back up and blow the dust off and rattle it around a little bit.
I'll start next week, with a few hours scheduled on Monday to start to work through some of Daniel Chipman Linsley's reports. I'll also check in with Abby Maria Hemenway, and see if she collected any good early stories related to Figure.
By the end of January, I want to have visited both the Woodstock and Randolph Historical Societies and gone through what they have on file. I'll also start fleshing out and fact-checking the timeline I've put together from various sources. I'm finding more and more, as I think about and read about this, that there's a lot of received wisdom and not a lot of double-checking. (See also my investigation into whether Figure was used as a parade mount for James Monroe.)
I'll be reporting on my progress as I go along, and checking in at the beginning of February to report my next goals & things to tackle.
Onward!
