Bite Size Writer's Resolutions
December 30, 2011
New Year is a time for making resolutions and all too often, for breaking them. And why - because we set goals but forget to make the plans to achieve them. Writers the world over will be resolving to write more, to pursue publication, to develop their craft and career only to find the stuff of life gets in their way. It doesn’t have to be so. Here are some bite sized tasks to get you started.
ü Dust off the stories you’ve already written, those that have neither been published, nor placed in competitions, and submit them.
§ What magazines or anthologies might they be suitable for? This can be researched at www.duotrope.com.
§ Or perhaps submit them to a competition. Download a list from this website http://www.ficklefiction.com/competitions.php; there are 101 to choose from.
§ Send your manuscript to a suitable agent, and another and another for as long and as many as it takes.
ü Have some of your stories professionally critiqued. A number of competitions such as http://www.writers-forum.com/storycomp.html provide this for a small additional fee, or if funds permit you might hire a professional such as http://debzhobbs-wyatt.co.uk/CritiquingService.aspx .
ü Find your local writer’s group and join.
ü Read the stories in your local newspaper and use them as the basis for a story plot. Note these rough outlines for future reference.
ü Write anything, a story, a blog, a letter to a friend, a poem, a play, something silly, or something serious.
ü If you don’t write today, do not allow yourself to be burdened by regret, write tomorrow instead.
What are writing resolutions this New Year?
Do you have some writing tips to share with others?
Posted by Gayle Beveridge. Posted In : Writing Prompts
