Goals WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS FOR JANUARY, 2019

[Sunny Irene Roth]

Hi all,

Happy New Year!!!!

I hope this year will be your best writing year ever!

If you make a few resolutions for this year, I hope you woe to:

1. Set three main goals for the year and set quarterly goals as well as weekly goals.
2, Write every day--regardless of how short a time. Even fifteen or twenty minutes is better than none.

I am going to be posting a thread for every week of the month. Please post your monthly goals at the beginning of the month under this thread and your weekly goals for the week under that thread.

If you need help to create your three goals or your monthly goals, let's chat! I can set up a coaching call for you. I can either call you or we can meet online in our chatroom.

So, please post your month goal here. I will create a new thread for your weekly goals.

To your success!
Irene S. Roth

 

[Allison Kelsey]

Here's my goals for January:

Participate in Winter Writing Festival (Grant & Lauren):

• January 11 to February 28 (50 days)
• Get one point each day I make goal (250 words per day OR 30 minutes of revising)
• 50 points = win

Puke out beer story for Journalism Research ASAP before my incomplete turns into an F.

 

[D.L. Gioe]

My goals for January:

1. Re-establish a working rhythm. Be IN my office, working on writing/revision, M/W/F from 8:15 to 1 p.m.
2. Get comfortable with my revision plan. It's on my white board. I've stared at it often enough. But it's been so long since I've been working on the revisions regularly that I feel like i can't even keep the plan in my head. Get over this obstacle.
3. Complete at least three major revision points (the tough ones that thread through the whole MS)
4. Get the blog into its new pace for 2019; start building community engagement on the FB page too
5. Reinvigorate my local writing group; get folks excited about their 2019 goals
6. By the end of January, be able to set a target date for having the revisions on this MS finished and line up a couple beta readers.
7. Continue to attend to the craft by working through some writing exercises.

 

[D.L. Gioe]

A question, Irene: When you challenge us to write every day, how do you define "write"? Does that include revisions? Journaling? Blogging and social media posts that promote our writing? Craft exercises?

Don't worry, I'm not as neurotic as the question may lead you to conclude. I'm mostly just curious about how folks approach "writing" time. Being a goal oriented individual, I've had to challenge myself to expand my definition to go beyond word count on my WIP to include other things, because it was beginning to feel like tunnel vision (and the view in the tunnel was getting a little old). But admittedly, I'm still trying to decide how many of these different eggs to lump into my basket. Where's the line between learning broadly and being scattered and distracted?

Thank you!

 

[Cynthia Capley]

My goals for January
1. get back into a writing routine.
2. finish website

 

[Sunny Irene Roth]

Hi Cynthia!

These are GREAT goals!

If you can, join me in the sprint room Monday through Wednesdays from 1.00 to 4.00 pm EST. I will also be writing from 7.00 to 8.00 pm EST.

Just go into the RothMentoring chat room. You will need a password, and it is rothmentoring.

See you then, I hope.

Have an awesome week!
Irene

 

[Mel Corbett]

Sorry for the late response. I just figured out how to find the mentoring program. I wasn't seeing it when I looked under mentoring before. *ahem*
My January goals are (1) figure out the "muddy middle" of my current draft because despite the outline I'm stuck, and I realized my MC isn't being as active as she should be, (2) finish the draft once that's done, (3) fill out the blurb form for a pro blurb that came as a bonus from a course i bought off site. I'm struggling with shrinking my synopsis down.

 

[KLC]

Hi Irene,

I just received a message you are in the chat. I pitched five agents and had one positive response. It is for a MG fantasy I wrote awhile aga and recently revised. Let me know if I may send you the pitch, then the query and synopsis for this agent.

Thank you. Gay Lynn

 

[Sunny Irene Roth]

Hi Gay Lynn,

That is great news!! Sure send them along to me. Just email them anytime.

Take care,
Irene