GOAL!!!!

[marzipan77]

I hear the football announcer, the stands erupting, those annoying vuvuzela drowning out everything.

I wouldn't actually mind people cheering for me every time I reach a goal, actually. Imagine that. You finish a chapter of your WIP and suddenly there are 80,000 people outside yelling and screaming. Or after you clean the house. Or call a friend you've been meaning to call. Okay, maybe that would get annoying.

BUT, I published my first novel on Amazon this week, so GOAL!!!!! I'd love for more creators, more artists and writers to get the serious love and attention of sports stars who kick a ball into a net, wouldn't you?

I got some great kudos (not on AO3) from my hubster this week. He bought me wine, saluted me, and said, "Wow. Who knew that writing a book could be so hard? I had no idea until I saw you work on it day in and day out for months and years to get to this point. This is an amazing achievement."

Yep, I'm going to hug that little scene to my cold, dead writer's heart for many months to come.



I will admit, my goals for 2021 changed this week. While I still have my writing goals, listed below, I've added others.

1. Finish formatting Child of the Scales for paperback publishing
2. Finish my deep edit of Book 2 in The Heir of Time series
3. Work on Book 3.
4. Publish Book 2 (yep, still dithering on the name) before December 2021
Here are the new ones:
5. Be kind - to everyone. Race, color, religion, political party - who cares? People are people all the way down. More kindness hurts no one and might help us heal.
6. Listen more. My own agenda might be wrong. My assumptions need to be challenged. Listen. Think. Consider.
7. Make the effort to stay close to friends and family - even from a distance. Write letters, emails, call (not my happy place). Check in. Care. Tell people I love them.
8. Life is certainly not progressing as anyone planned. So, maybe less planning, and more living. More experiencing. Eyes open, mind still, ready to receive.

May your hopes and dreams exceed your imagination this year.

Comments

[colls]

Yay!!!
So exciting about the published book - congrats again on such an awesome accomplishment!

May your hopes and dreams exceed your imagination this year.
Thank you. And may 2021 be full of gentler days for all of us.

[marzipan77]

Thank you!

[littlelostcat]

CONGRATULATIONS!! That is an incredible achievement.

[marzipan77]

Thank you!

[isabellerecs]

These are all excellent goals, I wish you the best of luck with them this year! :D

[marzipan77]

Thank you! I wish you a kind and joyful year, too!

[sjh2009]

Wow, congratulations in the book being published, how exciting! Yes, wouldn't it be encouraging if you have people cheering and clapping every time you achieved a goal!

Those are really great goals, both the fandom and non fandom ones. The world we are waking up in this year is not the one we woke up in this time last year. We have learned so much, and been made to rethink our own assumptions and ideas. One saying I've heard so much over the past few months is 'if you can be anything, be kind', and the world definitely needs some love and healing at the moment.

Good luck with all your goals this year 🙂

[marzipan77]

Thank you!

[tsuki_no_bara]

how exciting! i hope you at least imagined 80k people cheering for your book outside.

"less planning, more living" sounds like a good, uh, plan. sounds like good advice, just in general.