Writing Goals: 2018
Links to the entire 10 part series to take stock of your creative efforts in 2017… and commit to goals in 2018.
Links to the entire 10 part series to take stock of your creative efforts in 2017… and commit to goals in 2018.
If you missed any or all of it, here are links to the complete 10 part Writing Goals 2018 series. Use it to reflect on what you did as a writer in 2017… and what you can do in year ahead.
Part 2: Assessing Where You Are
Part 3: Where Do You Want To Go As A Writer?
Part 9: The Only Way Out Is Through
Let’s close with these words from Rilke:
Why, then, do we have to be human
and keep running from the fate
we long for?
Oh, not because of such a thing as happiness —
that fleeting gift before loss begins.
Not from curiosity, or to exercise the heart…
But because simply to be here is so much
and because what is here seems to need us,
this vanishing world that concerns us strangely —
us, the most vanishing of all. Once
for each, only once. Once and no more.
And we too: just once. Never again. But
to have lived even once,
to have been of Earth — that cannot be taken from us.
Once for each, only once. Once and no more. This is the nature of Life. If you feel the tug of the Creative… if you believe you have stories to tell… then lean into your Self and give voice to what you have to say.
Next year offers 365 opportunities to seize the day, pick up your pen, and do precisely that. God willing, Go Into The Story will be here each and every day to support you on your journey.
Reflect on 2017.
Plan for 2018.
And become more deeply who you are…
A writer.
Onward!