My aim - consistent with 2024 - is to have no goals. I work better with instinctiveness, waiting for a story to tug at my coat tail. I got back into 100-word tales for 30 days in December. I will peck away at the odd 100-word and 50-worders by the campfire with Justin but I know that if I tried anything approaching a ‘streak’ the quality wouldn’t hold up. I’m ‘less but better’ this year. I’m going to nibble at the edges of ‘Against the Tide’, my dystopian manuscript but I may well reach a point where I bin it. I have two non-fiction ‘projects’ in mind. A ‘Book of Encouragement’ and a travelogue based on the 3 month rail trip we’re making in the Autumn. I might shake up the genre by peppering it with fiction based wherever we’ve ended up. So, big handful ideas, not goals. I better save these words and check in on myself along the way.
A hefty pile of goals. May you reach them all. Happy New Year.
Looking forward to all your new stories this year, Erica 👍🏼
My goals are quite simple. Read more and write more. I do both of them and I’ll be content 😁
My aim - consistent with 2024 - is to have no goals. I work better with instinctiveness, waiting for a story to tug at my coat tail. I got back into 100-word tales for 30 days in December. I will peck away at the odd 100-word and 50-worders by the campfire with Justin but I know that if I tried anything approaching a ‘streak’ the quality wouldn’t hold up. I’m ‘less but better’ this year. I’m going to nibble at the edges of ‘Against the Tide’, my dystopian manuscript but I may well reach a point where I bin it. I have two non-fiction ‘projects’ in mind. A ‘Book of Encouragement’ and a travelogue based on the 3 month rail trip we’re making in the Autumn. I might shake up the genre by peppering it with fiction based wherever we’ve ended up. So, big handful ideas, not goals. I better save these words and check in on myself along the way.