How to Be a Writer: Setting Long-Term Goals

Part of learning how to be a writer involves setting long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve or become? What are the specific actions you need to take to fulfill your dreams? In this step-by-step video, you’ll identify your values, choose a mission statement, set goals using the acronym SMART, and outline milestones you can use to achieve those goals.

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” — Orison Swett Marden

Writing Goals Template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RYR7YNtF68BNy2E9W_5ASBUkh0g06JP8RaAlMXDyLTE/edit?usp=sharing

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Title and End Music:
“Clockwork” by Vindsvept - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zl4EGLoiI8&t=83s

Background Music by Vindsvept:
+ “Keeper of the Forest”
+ “Skymning”
+ “Chasing Shadows”
+ “Illuminate”
+ “The Fae”

SOURCES
“Want to Write a Novel? Set SMART Goals” by Dr. Melissa Burkley: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-social-thinker/201907/want-write-novel-set-smart-goals

“On Persistence, and the Long Con of Being a Successful Writer” by Kameron Hurley: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2014/01/22/on-persistence-and-the-long-con-of-being-a-successful-writer/

Introduction (0:00)
Identify Your Values (0:49)
Write a Mission Statement (1:27)
Set SMART Goals (2:10)
Choose Goal Milestones (8:44)
SMART Goals and Novel Writing (11:12)
Ewww, Networking (13:05)
The Purpose and Pitfalls of Goals (15:34)

Видео How to Be a Writer: Setting Long-Term Goals канала Diane Callahan - Quotidian Writer