Friday, February 1, 2008

Setting Goals

For me, it's more than getting butt in chair.
I need to know where I'm going - or rather where I'm going with my writing.
One of my writers' groups, Pocono/Lehigh Romance Writers - www.plrw.org - encourages us to set monthly goals. My goal from last meeting was to finish the revisions on "Moonstone Magic" - my Arthurian time travel - and get it to an editor who's shown interest in my work. Unless I spend all weekend glued to the chair, fingers bloodied from pounding the keyboard, that won't happen.
But I am going to give it a shot. I take goals seriously and set small ones for myself.

My other problem: too many ideas. I've started a novella about a female ghost who falls in love with the new owner of "her" house and, after scaring off one girlfriend after another, begins to plot his death so he can join her in the hereafter. It's a comedy. Really!

And King's "Duma Key" is sitting on my coffee table, calling to me..."Mitzi, reeeead me."

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