Programming note: It’s the first blog of the year, but the last in our series of goal-setting/rewards. Next week we start on a new series covering the writer’s routine of developing craft. So brush off your NaNo novels from last November or another WIP and get ready for a solid round of editing with help [...]

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 Last week I talked about my SNAP plan from an Author MBA class I took. This blog is a continuation on that, showing just how great the SNAP plan is. Quick recap: a SNAP plan shows an at-a-glance summary of your career vision and action plan. The action plan breaks your goals down into the [...]

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 don’t know how to talk about goal setting for writing without talking about my SNAP plan. Until a year and a half ago I hadn’t thought about treating my writing like a business. I just “followed the muse” and wrote a little of this, a little of that…when I was in the mood.
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f it’s December it must be time for setting goals. Ah, the writer’s routine of goal-setting. But first, let’s wrap up our week on priorities. Our priorities will lay the groundwork for what we are blogging about next week.
 
To make writing a priority in 2009 I need a good dose of both passion and discipline. [...]

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I approach this blog with a little bit of trepidation. I’ve known all month that this week we were going to be talking about rewarding ourselves after the final NaNoWriMo push.
Here is my confession. My idea of a reward is kind of boring.  What did I do this week to reward myself for completing [...]

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I finished my NaNo novel about mid-month. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. Unfortunately, it only had about 20,000 words–not even close to the 50,000 word challenge. Curious, but my previous first draft also ended up at about 20,000 words—but it took me the entire month to write it, not two weeks.
 
Now I [...]

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ptimist woke up early in the morning, refreshed from a fabulous dream she was having about her NaNoWriMo novel.
 
“I’ve got it!” She smiled to herself in the mirror. “I know how to get my heroine to the train station on time!” She winked and spun away from the mirror.
 
     She checked her email before getting [...]

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Have you noticed we added a calendar page above?  Stephanie, Kitty, and I want to be an encouragement to the writing community by providing informative and encouraging blogs. We thought it would help if we showed you all where we are headed.
November. This month is all about NaNoWriMo, but even if you are not trying [...]

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Routines for writers is a website dedicated to helping writers write more. We believe that if we set up routines for all aspects of our writing we will get more done, automatically.
 
In terms of my writing year, NaNoWriMo is the beginning. Writing this novel sets the pace for the rest of the year.  I know [...]

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Let’s get really practical today about our lives during NaNoWriMo! I’m talking to all you parents out there.
 
Keeping my kids busy this November will be my biggest NaNo challenge (aside from writing 50,000 words!) I’ve come up with a list of activities (way more than 30 if you count each entry) to tack up near [...]

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