WD Oct 2015 Challenge: Set Your Writing Goals

Set Your Writing Goals

For today’s platform-building task, set your writing goals. There are some people who believe in just charging blindly forward, but I believe in taking a moment to consider goals. And here’s why: It’s hard to know if you’re finding success if you don’t know what you’re trying to achieve. Or put another way: If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you’re there?

So put together a couple lists:

• One list should be short-term goals. These are goals you can accomplish within the next year. It’s okay to get ambitious, but try to keep them semi-reasonable. For instance, if you’re an unpublished writer, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature is probably not a reasonable short-term goal. But maybe getting published in a literary journal is.
• The other list should be long-term goals. Feel free to knock yourself out with ambitious goals here. Dream a little. But also include reasonable goals that you might accomplish eventually. As an example, I once set a goal of getting a full-length collection of poetry published, and it happened 18 months later!

(For more info about the challenge, go here)

Short Term Goals:

* Finish editing Hunters 2: Beneath the Chapter

* Submit a new story to Dreamspinner Press

* Participate in NaNoWriMo 2015

* Set up a Patreon

* Read more books

Long Term Goals:

* Learn more about marketing books

* Figure out how to sell ebooks at conventions

* Finish Hunters series

* Finish and Publish Horsewomen/Bringers/Aspects series

* Get into a habit of writing and publishing novellas every couple months

* Submit to more calls from Dreamspinner and other publishers

* Read and review more books

Current Story Work List:

This isn't included in the note above, but it's something I do to keep track of what I'm working on, since I tend to work on several stories at once, following the whims of my muses.  So a lot of these stories may not see the light of day for a long time, but writing this down reminds me that those ideas are patiently waiting their turn to be written. 

* ReWrite Horsewomen/Aspects

* Finish Feelings

* Edit Spiked and Feathered

* Write Shadow Play

* Write Blushing Apples 2

* Finish Devious Pies

* ReWrite Songbird

* Finish Little Creepers

* Write Hunters 3

* Write Light It Up

* Write STS comic idea

* Write Child's Dreams