My husband and I were talking about our 2010 joint goals and individual goals this week, and I remembered a little booklet I found on the Internet a few weeks ago. I was sure I’d shared it with you all, but I just looked over all of my December posts and I haven’t!
The web site [...]

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          One of my favorite quotes is what Teddy Roosevelt has to say about critics.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit [...]

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Today is Christmas and we at Routines for Writers are celebrating our Lord’s birth with family and friends. So in lieu of my regular blog, here are some of my favorite Bible verses that help bring special meaning to this time of year:

And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory [...]

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Christmas vacation! Yay! That phrase has different connotations for everyone, but most people are thinking of taking a bit of time off work, eating special foods, seeing more of family and friends, and doing a few fun things. (For us, that means seeing at least half a dozen movies in two weeks!)
This is one of [...]

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        Oops! I’m not sure how it happened, but writing this blog totally slipped my mind! Somehow, even though my new list of schedules and routines and to-dos clearly has “Write RFW blog” written in several places, I have nothing written. No jumbled page of disjointed thoughts that [...]

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For most people writing is a long, self-directed apprenticeship. You need to be able to focus on where you are going and how you are getting there.
Publishing can be such a slow business that sometimes you can feel like years have gone by and you have only moved an inch from where you started. That’s [...]

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Last week I told you how I start planning out my new year with a calendar. I figure out how many days I think I can write out of the 365, mark off the ones I don’t expect to write, and figure out how to meet my goals with the remaining days.
There are two ways [...]

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          As I stated last week, I like routines. I need routines. Without routines, I flit from project to project, not finishing any of them. Routines make my life less complicated, more ready for spontaneity. I will re-establish my routines! I dub 2010, for me at least, the [...]

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It’s that time of year again when we roll out our goal-setting routines. If you want to be ready to run with those New Years Resolutions you need to start making your plans now.
In yesterday’s blog you’ll see Kitty already has her calendar out and is marking off days. I’m a little bit behind her, [...]

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Now that NaNoWriMo is over, I am thinking about the year ahead. I’ve gotten back into a routine, and now I need to keep up with it. An occasional polishing or revising of routines won’t hurt either. So how do I begin? Since NaNo is so close to January, post-NaNo usually begins my annual planning. [...]

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