Well I got off track with my goals in March, and remained off track throughout the entire month of April. When I totally derailed in March it was a result of some rejections and fear of what my future holds. By April I was already starting to feel better so I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that I had already lost my momentum (but certainly some of it was because I’ve been finishing up my last semester of my MFA program – to be honest I just had a lot of work to do).
Early on in April I made the decision (which might sound reminiscent of last month) that I wasn’t going to bother trying to meet my writing goal. I decided I would submit my 10 submissions – and I did – but I wasn’t going to stress myself out about writing for two hours a day when I had plenty of other stuff to do as the semester drew to a close. And even though I didn’t come anywhere near my goal (I only wrote for a bit over an hour a day) I think this was a good decision because this was my last semester and I needed it to be a good one.
But now no more excuses! By the end of the first week in May I’ll be done done done with school and I’m not working over the summer, so there will be no way to justify not meeting my goals. And I feel that I really need to get my momentum back up before we move and I have to start working again – quite possibly in the real (that is: non-academic) world. It’s going to be really hard, I’m sure, to get my momentum going in that new environment so it’s essential that I’m already going full speed when we get there.
Plus, I have a lot of projects that I’m really excited about. I started a new story the other day and I’m anxious to finish a draft of it, and then there are some stories that I had set aside a while ago that I’d like to get back to and revise. And then I’ve got a new children’s book I started working on last summer and I’d like to get a complete draft of that. So I expect to keep my goals this month.
They are:
- Spend 62 hours on writing (average of 2 hours a day)
- Submit to 10 journals
