New Year, Renewed Aspirations

Happy 2013!

The start of a new year is always invigorating and refreshing. People have high hopes and lofty goals for making changes to and in their lives which will enrich and empower them. However, as the weeks go on and we settle back into our daily routines after the holiday season, we lose focus and those high hopes and lofty goals begin to blur. That's why I stopped setting "goals" when a new year rolls around. What I do now is look back at the past year and see what I did accomplish and what changes I started and didn't accomplish.

For those following my blog, you know I have aspirations on becoming a writer. In 2012, I attended my first writer's conference, began a critique group and completed my second manuscript. Pretty good. But what didn't I accomplish? Revising my edited manuscript and starting a third one. I had time to do it but somehow the frenzy of the holiday season beginning in November overwhelmed my senses and I simply "ran out of juice" as the saying goes by mid-December. Not so good.

Now that the new year has begun, I've organized an area in my room to be my "writing space." I've cleared off the desk, restocked my colored pens (I use nearly every color of the rainbow when I'm revising my work) and read the latest issues of Writer's Digest and SCBWI newsletters. I'm inspired. Time to put "butt in chair and crank out the words."

New year, REnewed aspirations on getting where I want to be--on the path to finding an agent and getting published. Happy 2013!