Today’s prompt: Share your goals and how you plan to achieve them

Write more ~ This challenge has been a good start because I want to write more in the wider sense, so I want to keep writing novels, but also shorter more creative pieces too. To achieve this I need to stop procrastinating and doubting myself

Send my work out ~ I think in a blog post much earlier in the year I said I was going to aim for 100 rejections and in order to do that I need to actually enter competitions and submit my work. So I need to start making a note of competitions I want to enter so I don’t miss the deadlines

Read about topics that interest me ~ I want to read wider than fiction. I do sometimes read non-fiction books but not enough and I think I should make time to research topics that interest me. For instance I watched a couple of documentaries about mediums/psychics this year, and one very famous medium posted on his instagram about having an arachnoid cyst in his brain and lots of people then shared stories in his comments about how they also had this cyst or family/friends did, and they also were able to predict things. I will gladly go down these kind of rabbit holes of research to find out more. I think it’s important for writers to be curious about strange things they come across as it can often be good inspiration for creative fiction!

Try new things ~ Maybe a cooking class, tarot reading class – I think I need to make myself a list of things I want to try…

Get fitter ~ I consciously tried to up my steps and was good at doing short dance workouts at the start of the year but I need to be much more disciplined. This gets much harder in Winter! Help me… (how do you keep motivated?)

Connect with old friends~ I feel like I’m still catching up a bit from those ‘lost years of lockdowns.’ Old friends if you are reading this give me a nudge, I do want to have that catch up and let’s get it sorted!

Make art ~ I’ve got this amazing big art kit which was a Christmas present from last year that I have hardly used and art reels of amazing artists demonstrating drawing/painting activities keep popping up on my Instgram and it is making me want to experiment. So maybe I should watch more reels to get me inspired and on my way

Travel ~ Last month was the first time I had been on a plane since 2019 and it was so great being abroad again. There’s a list of places I want to fly to and that will be a definite goal for next year. Looking up flights already…

I think that’s enough for now …. what are your goals??