New Years Resolutions/Annual Writing Goals

Wow.  All of you are so ambitious! I'm usually terrible at setting goals, and get discouraged really easily if I find myself getting behind, so I'm going to try and be exceedingly realistic.  I've got some things in my life that really limit what I am physically able to do, so don't judge my low bars too harshly plz and 10q 😆  

2026 goals

• Finish 3 short stories
• Submit those stories for the remaining 3 quarters of WotF
• Polish my HM and try submitting it somewhere outside of WotF
• Do any amount of writing on my novel, seriously, any amount of getting un-stuck will do for me 😅

Posted by: @bootzenkatzen

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Wow.  All of you are so ambitious! I'm usually terrible at setting goals, and get discouraged really easily if I find myself getting behind, so I'm going to try and be exceedingly realistic.  I've got some things in my life that really limit what I am physically able to do, so don't judge my low bars too harshly plz and 10q 😆  

2026 goals

• Finish 3 short stories
• Submit those stories for the remaining 3 quarters of WotF
• Polish my HM and try submitting it somewhere outside of WotF
• Do any amount of writing on my novel, seriously, any amount of getting un-stuck will do for me 😅

Those are amazing goals @bootzenkatzen ! - Nothing modest about them, you should be proud to achieve all that. 

The thread is meant to be inspirational/aspirational,  to give us energy and accountability in the best ways. But we all have things happen. And we all also know how we respond to goals - I like 'stretch goals'. Ones where they push me beyond my normal limits. But those are bad for anyone that gets stressed by pushing or down on themselves for failing. But the point is always to help provide the structure that helps each of us - so, awesome goals! Give us updates periodically if that helps. Or wait till this time next year if thats more your speed

Posted by: @ease

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• Write/edit every day (one word minimum) - FAIL - did okay for ~3 months, then got caught up/stressed out moving house.
• Finish cyberpunk WIP novel - FAIL - got 95% of draft 0 done, and 40% of draft 1.
• Query cyberpunk novel - HAH!
• Improve day-job income/reduce day-job hours (little bit out of my control as I'm currently an indentured servant dependent on Trump giving me a Green Card, but after that hurdle it should be easy to reduce 80 hours or increase pitiful income) - FAIL! Got the green card (YAY!) but didn't anticipate the 70,000 ex-federal workers I'd be competing against. Still working on it though 
• Run every month - FAIL. Again, did okay for 3 months, then lost track of that goal but got plenty of exercise digging trenches and fixing up houses.
• Get at least one freaking story published in a pro-market - FAIL. Can't say I really tried to be honest. I have one piece that's been with a great magazine for almost 2 years, but they're facing challenges at the moment. 

This year will have more modest goals: 

• Get back into writing: 2000 words a month. 
• Continue persuing a more writing-friendly day job. 
• Stay healthy.