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How Will You Write What You Dream Of in 2025?
Not by procrastinating and putting it off like you did in 2024
Here we are at the end of December and I wonder how many of you wrote as much as you wanted to this year?
Did you write a novel?
Did you write a collection of short stories?
Did you write at least one article a week for Medium, or whatever publication you are into?
Did you write 12 picture books or a couple of middle grade novels?
No? Do you know why not?
I have spent years battling with my procrastination. Have I got it beat? No, we’re still wrestling BUT these days, I’m winning more than I’m losing.
Why? How?
Several reasons. I think the main one is accountability. I have two people with whom I check in almost every day. Not specifically about writing, but about how our day went. On the days when I can say I wrote (or rewrote if I’m in revision mode), I feel better. That “feeling better” gained gradual momentum until I started to make writing more of a habit than finding excuses.
Another reason is that I set myself deadlines. My new crime novel, Woman, Missing, was published in July this year, and I wanted to have the sequel finished…
