The Seriouswriter girls & I were supposed to meet on Thursday for our ritualistic three-week catch-up-drink-coffee-set-goals (and pay up if you missed the last one)but real-life stuff intervened and we set goals via email.
Katy qualified her goal by claiming it was lame as compared with everyone else’s goal but I think it’s the toughest at times: to work on the same writing project every day for three straight weeks.
I disagreed with her because I think that setting, establishing and keeping a true daily writing schedule (if you aren’t a fulltime writer or don’t have a day job/life to interfere with writing) is often much more difficult than setting a page requirement to complete. The way life unfolds daily is never the same as the day before, and working to carve out that uninterrupted period of time where it’s just you and the words can be damn near impossible sometimes. But even if it’s only fifteen minutes, it’s a start.
Part of the challenge of setting writing goals that will help your career as a writer is taking into account one simple thing: LIFE–and structuring your career around it so that you maximize your experience with both. And since no one else can live your life the way you want, don’t worry that someone else’s goals don’t fit your career. Your writing, your life, your goals…and your $5 if you don’t meet them…LOL
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