I think that with a couple of weeks left of 2007, it’s too early to be freaking out about the resolutions I’ve broken, but my email inbox featured not 1 or 2 but 3 emails from various writing lists about which resolutions I managed to keep this year. So perhaps it’s time to look at 2007 as finished and start (very carefully) framing my writing goals for 2008.

In fact, it’s exactly one year and two days since I set my 2007 resolutions as being to:

• publish 5 short stories,
• enter 20 fiction writing contests, and
• complete a first draft of a novel.

One out of three isn’t too bad, although considerably the novel draft just got done in November (started AND finished), I could probably use a better strategy next year.

I’m going to formulate some nice neat writing goals (for fiction and non-fiction) in the next week or so, and I still like the short story publication and fiction writing contest goals from last year. More importantly, I plan to get down to the micro-level a bit better, and try to set more sub-goals to help me actually get these things done. Anyone who has a great tip for timetabling and scheduling that will work with me (a busy procrastinator) is welcome to comment. More soon!