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Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 10

It's truly unbelievable that we're ending another year and, more importantly, a new decade. A new decade! RIGHT ABOUT NOW is the time that most people start giving some serious thought about those resolutions they want to get started on in the new year. And I say, "Why wait?" Is there something in the new … Continue reading Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 10 →

Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 5

While many writers are in NaNoWriMo mode, I'm navigating through "Operation Manuscript Revisions". For me, the month of November will be all about tightening up the first draft and functioning in edit mode. However, I'm going to come clean and admit that I didn't quite make my deadline to have the first draft completed by … Continue reading Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 5 →

Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 3: SMART Goals (Cont.)

For those of you who have been following along with the Goal-Setting Process, you know that we're on Step 3, which has everything to do with setting SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely) goals. The assignment from a couple of weeks ago was to take our top 9 basic goals that we identified from our lists … Continue reading Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 3: SMART Goals (Cont.) →

Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 3

Happy Monday! Hope you had a fantastic weekend and that you're looking forward to all the writing wonderment that lies in store for you this week. Like clockwork, here's weekly report 3 (October 13, 2019 - October 19, 2019) for progress made on my 3 goals for the remainder of the year: Create an audio … Continue reading Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 3 →

Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 2

Happy Monday! I've got another weekly report (October 6, 2019 - October 12, 2019) for progress made on my 3 goals for the remainder of the year: Create an audio book for Playground Instruction for the Growing Adult (my debut book). Write and self-publish my second book. Research and set-up some future public speaking engagements. … Continue reading Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 2 →

Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 3: SMART Goals

Per my previous post, entitled Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More -Step 2: List-making, I have provided my top 3 goals in the following categories (goals I'd like to start on immediately, goals I'd like to start and complete in the next 3 months, and goals I'd like to start and complete within 3 - 6 months). … Continue reading Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 3: SMART Goals →

Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 1

I thought I'd keep you up-to-date with the progress on my three major goals for the remainder of 2019. I haven't put them into SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely) goal format just yet. Let's just say that I'm quite certain I've chosen three basic goals that are shaping up to be SMART fairly soon. … Continue reading Writing Goals for Remainder of 2019 – Weekly Report 1 →

Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 2: List-making

Let's move on to step #2 of the Goal-Setting Process: list-making. Now, I can't help but bring to mind the first step which was outlined in Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 1: Brainstorming. Feel free to review this post if you need a refresher or haven't read it before. NOTE: in preparing today's … Continue reading Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 2: List-making →