How time sometimes seems to fly! Now that the end of 2024 closes in, it's time to etch my writing goals for 2025 into digital stone.
Why Set Goals?
Over the years, I've had good luck setting writing goals. Jotting down a few milestones each year helps hold me accountable. Most of the time, I reach my goals like I have in 2024, but that's not true of every year. Regardless of meeting any particular metric, I find goalsetting and checking in on my goals periodically is a good practice that encourages reflection and a pat on the back or kick in the butt.
Haunted High School Tale
My number one task is to finish the ghost story draft and edit it for submission before the end of 2025. This is a doable task, which is good because I have a hard deadline of December 31, 2025. No worries, though. I'm already about 40,000 words into the rough draft. Since I'm shooting for about 70,000 words, that puts me about 60% through the draft already. Hip, hip, hooray!
The Allison Lee Chronicles, Volume Four
Next is editing the draft for the fourth and final volume of the Allison Lee Chronicles. I have a monumental job at the butcher block for this one. The tale expanded in the telling and needs a severe diet. I have about 50,000 words to cut on top of the usual rewrite, consolidation , and fine edit. Fingers crossed that I'm able to knock this out!
Honestly, those are my only gnarly, audacious goals for 2025. Finishing up the draft of and editing the ghost story feels very doable right now. Editing the rough draft of volume four, not so much. As with many things in life, time will tell. Whatever your goals are for 2025, writerly or otherwise, I hope you reach them while staying hungry for more. Remember, goals are, in the end, only markers along the journey.
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