Stories get published. Books wind up on shelves in cozy bookshops. Films even get made from our literature. But it all has to start somewhere. Your favorite novel started as a goal the writer had. I’ve been a fan of goal setting for a long time, and I believe it’s never too late to do so. That’s why here in the last quarter of 2024, I ask what your goal is. After all, how can you know who you want to be, if you’re afraid to say it? Do you want to write a story? Go back to school? Find an agent? Get the big book contract? Or maybe your goal is more life oriented: pay off debt, find a better job, start a new wellness program?
I’ll go first. I’m revising my fourth book now. I have until sometime next year to finish, but I hope to be just about done with it by February.
Drop your goal, big or small in the comments! Thanks…
My goal is to figure out how to establish a regular writing schedule while balancing a FT job and frequent migraines. I want to generate more pages of the novel I’m writing.
My goal for this q4 is to finish the first draft of a novel I’m writing. I’d say it’s about a 3rd finished now, but I feel like I know what’s going to happen, so the rest should go faster than the beginning when I was still discovering the character’s arcs.