2014 Writing Goals

Everybody is sharing their New Year's resolutions, and it's making me nervous. Resolutions and lists are so much fun in January, still motivating in February, but come May or so, they're about as appealing as that piece of peanut brittle you sweep from under the stove.

Nevertheless, resolutions are helpful, even if they only keep one writing/cleaning/dieting/smiling/whatevering through Easter.

Since this site is about my writing, and this blog is for writing news, I've made a short list of writing goals for 2014.

• Write regularly. (No, I didn't say every day.)
• Finish something. (I'm looking at you, Full Moon, Half a Heart.)
• Publish something. (Can be as small as a six-word story in an obscure online magazine or as big as...Stop it. This is about baby steps!)
• Branch out. (Write at least one piece of writing that's not memoir or middle grade. And no more bad poetry, please!)

There. That looks doable. Please check back with me come May.