5 Ways Writers Can Prep for 2025 Goal Setting
Before we roll on to the new writing year, let’s harness our optimism for the blank slate before us and prepare for our 2025 Goal Setting just for writers.
Are You Willing to Learn?
To become a better writer, you must be willing to learn. Let’s put our own knowledge aside and let the professionals show us how to improve our skills today.
Learning to Write for Publication
Learning to write for publication starts with getting your brain on board. Time to figure out where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there.
Choosing Your Writing Word of the Year-Institute for Writers
One way of thinking about what you most want out of the year is by choosing a writing word of the year. What’s a word that encapsulates your goals this year?
5 Tips for Planning Your Writing Goals
Any day can be a restart—not just January 1st. You can revisit your writing goals daily, monthly, or quarterly. Let’s look at 5 tips for SMART writing goals.
3 Steps to Becoming a Positive Writer
Negativity can deplete your creativity and energy. Today, let’s look at practical ways to be a more positive writer—even in the face of rejection.
Becoming a Healthy Writer
The physical act of writing can be hard on our bodies. One goal for the new year is to become a healthy writer, physically, and emotionally. Join us on the journey.
Manage Your Writing Life by Managing Your Writing Time
With so many demands on your time, it’s essential that you use your writing time wisely. Time management can help you to be more productive, organized, and efficient.
New Year, New Writing You
Welcome to a new writing year! It’s time to grow in your writing and Jan Fields reveals how to do that through new attitudes, new goals, and new habits.
New Writing Plans for the New Year
When you break your writing plans into steps, you always know what to do next. Get Jan Fields’ tips for using small steps to complete BIG goals!
The Ghosts of Writing Past, Present, and To Come
Imagining a personal Scrooge-like journey can help us make choices for a brighter future in the new writing year. So, what are the Ghosts trying to tell you?
Your Writing Year in Review
As you review your writing year, the only way to know where you are and where you’re going is to focus on what you did accomplish, not what you didn’t.
Inspired Goal Setting Tips for Writers
The best writing goals are inspiring, flexible, and clear. Let’s talk about goals for writers and inspired goal setting tips for writers for the upcoming year.
Jump on the Submission Train This Year
Make this the year you create a submissions plan so you can confidently get your writing into editors’ hands. Let’s tackle each potential roadblock head-on.
Stay On Track With Your Goals
There’s rarely a direct path between setting a goal and achieving a goal. So, we’ve got tips and tricks to help you stay on track and get closer to success!
Finding Your Time to Write
Struggling to find time to write? Time-management experts stress the need to MAKE time. Here’s how you can create a writing schedule that works for you.
Simple Goals that Lead to Writing Success
Small goals take a few minutes a day and can lead to writing success as they can help us improve our craft, complete projects, and gain personal satisfaction.
One Good Goal For All
When you work on improving your craft, you increase your chance for success with all of your other goals. Grab these tips to identify how to be a better writer.
A SMART Approach For Setting Goals
Take your writing to the next level with SMART goals. Ensure your writer plans for the year are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound.
Set Goals for a Successful Writing Year
To get where we want to go as writers, we can set goals and work to achieve them. Victoria Sherrow shares ways to taking stock and setting achievable goals.
