WELCOME INSECURE WRITERS!!
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Hello my dearies and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all!
I hope you've all survived the holidays with nerves (and heads and bank accounts) more or less in tact and are ready to face 2013 head on.
Well, I'm not sure I'm ready, but here it is, anyway.
2013. Yikes.
So... as I do most years, I've sat down during the last weeks of December and tried to decide what I want to accomplish in my own personal 2013. Then I went and did the absolutely wrong thing - I decided to compare that list with the one I made last year.
Guess what.
Things repeat.
Most things don't, that's true, too - but the things I HAVE in fact accomplished last year pale in my mind's eye when compared to those all-important points that I did not accomplish - most of which, and this pains me most, have to do with my writing.
Last year, I wanted to finish the short stories I was working on, and at least try to submit maybe half of those.
This year, I'm still going to be working on them - yes, even though they're supposed to be SHORT stories, it's taking me ages. I don't think I'm made for short anything.
Last year, I wanted to choose one of my many many ideas and work on that until it at least resembles a novel.
This year, I still need to decide on one that I'll work on, because my Mr Muse suffers from serious SADD (Story Attention Deficit Disorder, in case you're wondering).
Last year, I wanted to sort out my blogging - adhere to some sort of schedule, stop forgetting about things. Turns out I was MISERABLE at that last year.
This year, I still need to sort out my blog.
How about you, my dearest fellow insecurists? What goals are you working towards, and do your lists find repeats, too?
10 comments:
I'm not really doing writing goals this year, because I think they get in the way, but I suppose it's inevitable things will repeat. Who we are won't just change over the course of a year.
I find my lists repeat so much I just carry one around rather than make a new one. Unless it gets too smudged to read. Good luck with your stories!
One step at a time.
One day at a time.
We can get anywhere if we have some patience.
Don't give up.
Keep writing.
Heather
It's all right Tessa. Some goals we just have to keep resetting.
I have some ambitious goals for this year, but most of them are for the second half of the year. Right now, I'm just trying to keep up.
Yay, Tessa! *waves hi*
Getting back into the blogging myself. And yes, very much repeats. I always try to reflect on year goals for end of December post, then post new goals very beginning of January. I planned to finish novels I have started (I didn't finish any of them but started a new one in November), so now I have that one on top of the others to finish. I wanted to edit my mutant novels and get ready to submit. I'm editing the mutant novels with new date to be ready to submit. I wanted to read more and umm only did so with online manga, so now I have the same reading goal.
Yeah... lots of repeats. But good to have company.
:-D
I'm afraid my goals are still a bit vague. Mostly I want my family life to improve and that will be a day to day work in progress.
As for writing I want to keep it simple. Market The Magic Wakes, finish the sequel and my YA Fantasy. That should be enough for a year's work if I want to do it right.
Good luck Tessa! All we can do is keep trying and eventually we WILL get where we want to be.
I just want to write more this year! And be proud of myself more often.
But I am so with you-- short stories tend to actually take me longer than novels, so I feel for you there :)
Just keep working. There is nothing wrong with taking it one step at a time.
Yeah I have repeats too, although I'm trying to learn from them to make them happen this year.
Good luck with your goals!
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