Question for week 3:
What are your goals for the
2013 writing year and why are they important to you? Are these goals new or are
you carrying over from 2012 or a previous year?
The prompt was for one goal, but I have a couple and I
wanted to share.
One of my goals for the 2013 writing year is to write a
longer book than a novella. So far, the most I’ve written is a little over
20,000 words. That averages out to about 65 pages. I would love to write at
least one book that is long enough to be put into print. I want to see my book
on a bookshelf in the bookstore and say “Hey! That’s me!”. But more than that,
I want to know I can do it. This is a new goal but something I’ve wanted to do
since I started writing in 2011.
Another goal I have is to try to be more organized in my writing.
Thus far, I’ve been pantsing it, but I’m wondering if my focus and quality
would be better if I tried planning. I’ve never done it before but an idea for
a new story, possibly a series, came to me in a dream a few nights ago and I
would really like to make it great. This is a brand new goal for me, but one
I’m embracing.
"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right." ~ Hunter S.
Thompson
I don’t want to just be a good writer, I want to be a great
author.
