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Writing Goals 2011
Jan 08, 2011

Now for the writing goals. As previously mentioned, Chuck Palahniuk was the one who urged us to do this at Clarion West. And he urged us to shoot big. So I am. He also urged us to state our goals definitively. So, here goes.

I will sell six stories.

I will complete 3 novels.*

I will sell (at least) one novel.

I will be SFWA eligible (a cheat, really, since the other goals will probably ensure this).

I will successfully complete a collaboration that sells.

I think that does it for goals for me, at least right now. But I will revisit these from time to time, just to see how I’m doing.

It may seem ambitious, but why not be?

* By “complete” I mean turn out finished drafts. At least one of these is a previously written novel that I am in the process of extensively rewriting.

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