Okay, so I’m a little late in posting my goals for the new year, but that’s because I’ve been busy working to achieve them!
Here are this year’s goals:
- Write at least 1500 words every day. This would take me about 2 hours a day to accomplish, more or less. Very doable. If I’m in editing mode, then I plan to polish 5 pages a day.
- Finish 6 novellas. I just finished one up last month and I have another drafted, so I am already 1.5 down with 4.5 more to go. And it’s only February!
- Write 1 novel. I have 2 very different ideas for new full-length books that are fighting for priority right now, but time will likely only permit one to win this year.
- Redesign this website. *laughs* Yes, within a week or so I’m going to change the look of this site again. I like the look of this current theme, but my husband is creating a custom design made specifically to reflect my personality, and it looks so awesome I’d be crazy not to use it. You’ll see!
- Blog more frequently. I get a point for this post, right?
- Lose 25 pounds. I gained quite a bit of weight during my last pregnancy ~ over 60 pounds. But that baby is now 2 frickin’ years old, and I’m still fighting with the remaining 25. It must go!
- Exercise at least 4 days a week. Preferably 5 days, for at least 40 minutes. Consistently, no weeks skipped. My biggest challenge here is keeping my routine even during the weeks I’m out of town for work. I’ve got to get better at that.
- Submit a writing project every month. Be it a query or submission for a novel, novella, short-story, proposal, web article or contest, I’d like to aim to have something to send out every month. This goal is a way to sort of push myself to be brave and just submit my work! How else will I ever achieve the next goal …
- Get Published! Nothing would make the year 2010 earn its Ten than for it to be the year I land my very first publishing contract. A girl can dream, right?
- Go to at least 1 Writing Conference. I had it in my head that since I didn’t have a book published, I didn’t have any business attending a professional writing conference. Now I know better. By attending one I can actually try and meet face-to-face with folks who can help me accomplish my goals.
It’s good to put your goals down in writing (and to give them eternal life on the internet for the entire world to see, putting terrible, terrible pressure on you to perform), so feel free to share your goals, too!
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Man, I do wish I could take my writing as seriously as you do. I wish you all the luck in meeting those goals. In the meantime, I’ll still be tinkering (sigh).
Thank you for wishing me luck! But may I ask what’s stopping you from moving beyond tinkering (if you really want to take it more seriously)?
I’ve been too busy being a character of a story and not the narrator of one. I have written some stuff, but it’s more of a release than anything I would want published. Slaus has one of my works. I wanted him to animate it, but his hands are way full right now.