If you started the year with a laundry list of writing goals and haven’t achieved any of them, it’s time to hit the reset button and break those goals into quarterly buckets. This way, if you plan to finish an essay in Q3, you can spend Q2 polishing up the first draft and getting feedback from a trusted reader like moi.
The biggest challenge is holding yourself accountable. Sure, it’s easier said than done when you have an editor tapping you on your shoulder when the deadline for your first draft was due yesterday. It’s super difficult when it’s just you, a blank screen and a half-baked idea that sounded good at 2 a.m. after you’ve downed several cocktails called the Long Kiss Goodnight.
So I ask, what kind of writer do you plan to be in Q2? How do you plan to achieve your writing goals?
One of The Four Agreements pushes us to be impeccable with our word, to always do our best. For writers, that can translate into this:
Do what you say you are going to do.
In 2018, I came up with this idea for a Write & Sip (think: paint and sip, minus the canvas and replace them with writing prompts) but I kept pushing it off because I wasn’t full ready (or so I thought) to execute my idea and I was SCARED TO DEATH (or so I thought).
Fear is a powerful, ugly beast in sensible shoes.
But fear, doesn’t allow me (or you) to honor our ideas and gifts. So I’m happy to report that the Write & Sip is on and poppin’ for April 20, 2019. Finally! It took guts to honor myself, be impeccable with my word and do what I said that I was going to do.
And you know what? Like Tony! Toni! Toné! said: “It feels good. Yeah.”
Check out the video above and tell me how you plan to be a writer who honors his or her word. Remember to hang out with me via Yeah Write with Taiia Smart Young on FB for free writing classes and tips.
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