by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Creative Planning for Authors and Poets: by Orna Ross @JaneFriedman
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- Review Of My 2023 Creative And Business Goals With Joanna Penn: @thecreativepenn
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- London Book Fair Names Its 2024 Charities of the Year: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Morgan Entrekin on ‘That 30-Year-Old Hanging Out’ at Frankfurt: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @book_fair
- Setting Writing Goals – Keeping it Simple: @AlexJCavanaugh
@theiwsg - One New Year’s Resolution: by Debbie Burke @killzoneauthors
- Write Goals That Work: @WriteNowCoach
- Meet Your Writing Goals This Year with These Valuable Tips: @LynnHBlackburn @ediemelson
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- Conquering Writer Doubt: by Erin K. Larson-Burnett @theiwsg
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- 5 Steps To Keep Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions: @thejkstudio
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- The Benefits of a Slow Start to the Year: @lisatener
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- Planting Clues: @mandsmagazine
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- Overwhelm as an Element in Crime Fiction: @margotkinberg
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- Jury Duty as an Element in Crime Fiction: @margotkinberg
- Goal Setting as an Element of Crime Fiction: @margotkinberg
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Thanks for including my IWSG piece on writing goals. Felt like I was the last person to be writing something like that.
You did a great job with it!
Thanks, as always, for these great links, Elizabeth. The WKB is so helpful! I guess because it's January, I see some really interesting pieces on goal setting. My years in teaching have shown me that setting goals, with smaller objectives leading to them, is a really effective way to get major things accomplished. Small goals (e.g. Each day, I'll look through three chapters of my manuscript) lead to major accomplishments (e.g. edits done – now off to the publisher!). Getting bite-sized things done is a lot less daunting.
Lots of goal setting posts right now. Great point about setting small and achievable goals to keep motivated!