I realise now we are one full week into November. That means, unfortunately, that before we know it, December will be upon us. Then we will positively hurtle towards the New Year, that time of resolutions.
Which also means I have that sneaking sense of 2014 coming to a close, along with my opportunities to make good on those writing resolutions I made back in January. Whilst it is easy to fall back on the excuse that this year threw me a lot of curveballs in the amount of time I spent either on the road or in strange locations, I know that if I use that as a reason then I will always have something to justify those areas where I didn’t achieve my goals.
That doesn’t mean it was a year of failure. I self-published a short story, largely to see if I could, and that will set me up for when I am ready to publish my urban fantasy series. I have started my own company and I have made some amazing new writer friends who really get me. I have completed novels, I have been forced to abandon a few.
But overall, I have made progress. Even if I haven’t hit every marker I set, I have certainly made more progress on my writing than I would have done if I had left everything to chance.
So I would urge you not to wait until the hangover is clearing on New Year’s day. Start thinking about what you want to achieve with your writing – or any other key areas of your life – for 2015. Goals that you think of in two seconds because you feel like you should do something – anything – are the ones most likely to fail anyway. Start thinking now and work out what really matters. Once you’ve worked that out, then write it down. Go into 2015 with a sense of direction that you’ve got the heart to truly believe is the right one, not the first one that came to mind.
2014 may nearly be over, but it is never too late to start living your dreams.
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‘Four lives. Three lifetimes. A Venn diagram of possibilities.’
Samantha has been through so much already. Not in this life, but in the one before. Worse was the one before that. Now, faced with history quite literally repeating itself, she is determined to do what needs to be done before he kills her again.
Before they kill each other.
C.K. Martin / Cas Martin 
thanks, I have never thought of new year resolutions like this, but you angle does make a lot more sense. If I set my goals now, I will be ready to go when Jan 1st arrives. Thanks again. And good luck with your goals as well.
Hope that thinking about it now helps you out 🙂 It has really worked for me this year. Good luck!
I have my goals in mind, and write them down daily so they are in front of me. Then I break them down into doable pieces and work on them that way. I never have to have a “resolution” this way.
That is definitely the best way to do it. I really have to train myself better to write them down and look at them every day – at the moment my big struggle is to review them that frequently, so I am very impressed by anyone who has the tenacity to keep going with it 🙂
Oh gosh… don’t even wanna think about it… haha
Go on, be brave 😉