Storyist review 2016
It’s to be expected when life changes happen–births, deaths, moved, marriages. If I acknowledge that this year will be focused on keeping my new daughter alive, well fed, and healthy, in addition to meeting the needs of a preschooler and husband, and myself, it suddenly looks a lot more challenging. To not reach that goal then is demoralizing. There is nothing more discouraging than failing when you know you can do a task.
I think I’ll give it another week or two with this goal in mind and trying to write every day, and then see where I’m at. But I’m not ready to cross it off my list–yet. And there are goals I have (edit my women’s fiction novel, publish 2 short stories, etc) that will take away from those 500 words a day. So is this a realistic goal? If it were my only one, yes. But it’s February and I’ve hardly written anything (I blame the newborn). Set yourself up to succeed.Īre you really going to be able to write 3K a day? Or at least average that for the next 11 months? In other words, challenge yourself but don’t set yourself up to fail. Maybe it will take working on it every single day to accomplish it by December 31. So make sure you know yourself and have an idea of what you can accomplish. Does your yearly word count seem realistic at this point? Or would you have to write 3K word a day in order to reach it? It puts them up front in your mind and reminds you of what you want.ĭon’t let yourself forget what you want to accomplish.ĭon’t give up! That’s not what I mean at all. If not, let it go.īut it’s important to review your goals every couple of weeks. Perhaps a little too lofty.ĭo you still want them? Does it still matter to you if you finish that short story you impulsively started at the end of December but got stuck on when you realized it had no plot and no market? If so, rally on. So when I make my next year’s resolutions, they can sometimes end up quite lofty. (Must be all the cookies and candy canes.) I don’t know about you, but I start feeling awfully optimistic and over enthusiastic around the end of December.
Take a fresh look at your 2018 resolutions and goals. After all, if you haven’t worked on them or thought about them by now, they either aren’t important or they’re too overwhelming. If the answer is no, then you might want to take this time to re-evaluate them. If you’ve made a resolution to write every day, have you tacked that up where you’re reminded every day?ĭo you work on your resolutions every day? Think about them every day? How are you doing on those 2018 goals and resolutions? So I’m immensely proud of the fact that I stuck to my guns and did it (even though I squeaked it in at the end of December!). There’s a lot more to balance and lots more to get wrong (and right, in all fairness). I have a lot more doubts about being able to keep the threads and plot of a novel together than a short story. It took a lot more courage for me to publish a novel than it has for me to publish short stories.
#STORYIST REVIEW 2016 FULL#
You see, I promised myself I would publish a full length novel in 2017, and I did. In my resolution mindset, I am a productivity machine.īut there is one goal I am proud of for accomplishing last year: I published a full-length novel. I set these lofty goals where I will accomplish everything in a timely fashion with no room for distractions or doubts. Mine were, for the most part, overly ambitious. We’re your goals unrealistic? Or too easy to achieve? What did they teach you? Did you meet them? Or give up halfway through the year? We’re already into February and you probably set some goals or resolutions for this year.īetter yet…how did you do with last year’s goals?