Linsey Lanier
Sally Kilpatrick
Sia Huff
Romily Bernard
Darcy Crowder
Marilyn Baron
Tami Brothers
Sandra Elzie
Carol Burnside
Debbie Kaufman
Maxine Davis
Tammy Schubert
Susan Carlisle
Pam Asberry
Lindy Chaffin StartCynthia’s Goals
Let me preface this by saying how much I dislike New Year resolutions. Too often, we set our goals too high and wind up feeling like @#$% when we fail. That said, I sat down, thought a while, wrote several drafts and came up with what I felt were goals that I could have a reasonable chance of achieving in 2009.
Writing Goals:
1. Write–even when I’d rather dive back under the covers and snooze on my days off. And even when I’m whining that I’m “too tired”.
2. Stay off the rabbit trails. I need to learn to acknowledge the plot bunnies when they entice me to play and then ignore them until my current WIP is finished.
3. I need to avoid energy vampires and time succubi. It’s very easy for me to get distracted by some prolonged tale of woe or cute videos on U-Tube.
4. I need to send requested proposals out in a timely fashion. This neatly ties into Personal Goals #1 and 2:
Personal Goals:
1. Be brave. In writing several drafts of this post, I’ve realized I have a lot of fear inside me. Fear of rejection, fear of criticism…blah, blah. It’s time for me to “man up”.
2. Be a better correspondent. I tend to avoid the Post Office like other people avoid the dentist and the “send” button makes my hands sweat.
3. I need to eat my vegetables. They just don’t taste as good as freshly baked bread or Godiva chocolate.
4. Learn to conquer my fear of creepy-crawlies and monkeys. Remember that scene in Under The Tuscan Sun where a scorpion falls down the front of Frances’s shirt? That is so ME. And monkeys are just creepy.
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Cinthia Hamer | Novelist pursuing publication. Active PRO member of Romance Writers of America and Georgia Romance Writers. You can find me on Facebook listed as Cinthia Hamer.
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December 31st, 2008 at 8:36 am
I love these Cynthia. Very cute. I can tell you have to be a funny writer. I never would have come up with some of these names.
And that scene in Under the Tuscan Sun. I just about jumped out of my skin with that. I pray it never happens to me.
Tami