New Year's Resolutions
Wednesday December 26, 2007
My resolution last year was to finish revising a novel, so I'm speaking from experience when I write about #3 on this list. Going into 2008, my challenge is to make time -- regularly -- to start writing new things. (For me, this seems to only happen when I get up early, hence the challenge.) It seems to me that this must be the most common resolution for writers, since the majority of us human beings don't have trust funds. But is that true? I thought I'd find out:
Poll: What is your new year's resolution for your writing for 2008?
2) Overcome my writer's block.
3) Complete an unfinished project.
4) Read more.
6) Find/create a writing space.
7) Write the first draft of my novel.
I think serious writers are FOREVER recommitting to writing more, finishing projects, trying new things, being kinder to themselves during the process, and all the other great resolutions you listed. I deal with many of these issues in my book WRITER’S FIRST AID and my blog by the same name. We’re all in this together! We move forward, inch by inch.
Time, time, time! I need to organize myself and better manage my time. I struggle with them both. I have been searching for and reading about solutions, but I have not found anything I think would succeed with me. Hopefully I will find something in 2008.
I would add one more resolution ~ be tougher on myself, don’t give up on a story because one unenlightened editor (or several) did not see the merit; but revise and resubmit to another.
And ever keep writing, for us it’s a visceral need.
The Writer Writes!
My New Year’s resolution is to totally rewrite the story I wrote for NaNoWriMo. Since I’ve acutally written a first draft, I really believe I can do it again and make it even better!
Wish me luck!
My resolution is never to submit a story to a journal that won’t accept submissions by web or email. I can find no justification, except cussedness or laziness, for such an editorial policy.