I’m learning that while ambition is good and is needed early in a writer’s career, over-ambition hurts everyone, especially yourself. Things have come up that I didn’t anticipate when crafting my original goals, so I need to change them. Otherwise, I may just end up in the crazy house and none of us wants that. So, new goals:
- Finish Book 3 by October 31 – Not going to happen. I write all day in my day job and I’m finding it harder to repeatedly force lunch and nighttime fiction writing when it’s so intense at the place that employs me. My new goal is to get as far as I can without driving myself mad, while finishing prep for NaNoWriMo.
- Write Glastonbury by December 31 – Still hoping for this one, but we’ll see how I’m doing after NaNoWriMo. Right now I just need to focus on finishing research and then plotting. Writing starts November 1.
- Win NaNoWriMo – Yes to this.
- Write at least four days each week – Three or four, we’ll see.
- Exercise every other day – I have to keep myself to this one. Otherwise, it won’t be pretty. (Pun intended.)
So, that’s it. If I need to, I’ll keep revising. I’m realizing the need to be kind to myself and tame my natural “I-can-do-everything-haven’t-you-noticed-I-was-even-born-early” tendencies. Life is a work in progress, right?
PS – I made my first cup of coffee (decaf) this morning. It’s full of milk and sugar and chocolate, but I feel so adult!