March Serious Writer Writing Goals
I wanted to start setting my writing goals on Sunday but yesterday proved too much to do for that. Ok, maybe not too much, considering that after my grandma’s 81st birthday party, I basically sat around with the boy watching hoops all afternoon. He monopolized the computer–that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Thursday I met with the Serious Writers–who are now down to three (me included) and we set our tri-weekly goal for our next coffee and cookie gab session. My 3 week goal is as follows:
- finish an essay on the topic of anger to submit to a contest by March 16th
- submit 5 new query letters for freelance articles
- submit one other essay (I have several choices) for publication
- propose my freelance workshop to three potential online venues
So far, so good. Saturday I managed to finish most of the second draft of the anger essay but as always, I’m tearing out my hair over the conclusion. I submitted a query letter Saturday too, to a new market I’ve not yet written for but that I’d like to break into. I’ve not approached the second essay yet–want to get done with the anger one first, and I finalized my freelance workshop proposal (I’ve taught this several times online , just needed to refresh the proposal) and am seeking out venues.
Not too bad. I’ve also got a couple of additional goals I didn’t mention on Thursday that have something to do with a secret little writing project I’ve got going–worked on that Saturday as well. All in all, the muse is cooperating. Gotta remember to get her more chocolate today–she’s far more compliant with chocolate.
How about you? What are your weekly, bi-weekly, tri-weekly or monthly writing goals? More importantly, do you have enough chocolate (and whatever other vice(s) your muse requires) to get you there? 
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