Goals for 2008

I'm a big believer in setting goals. There's something motivating about putting down on paper what your heart desires, as though having something tangible makes it more likely to happen. And I suspect that it does.

The key to good goal writing is to make them attainable but challenging. They should be stretch goals, ones that you can envision completing without moving mountains, but still have to put in some work to get there.

My goals for the next year of writing are:

1) Submit to Writers of the Future every quarter (no expectation on winning)

2) Complete NaNoWriMo (50,000 words baby)

3) Sell a short story to a Pro or Semi-Pro market

Attainable? Yep. Motivating? You betcha.