5 Writing Goals for 2024 You’ll ACTUALLY Achieve

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@thetravelingbibliophile 9 ай бұрын

Lol, I took the "introduce myself as a writer" approach last year, now every day my friends ask me where's my book. 😩But it is still really good advice because it keeps me serious about the craft as my work. Happy New Year, Alyssa!

@joevaldez6457 8 ай бұрын

"It feels better being an unemployed musician than an unemployed pipe fitter." -- _The Commitments_ by Roddy Doyle

@p.thompson8643 8 ай бұрын

One goal I'm going to tackle is to read new releases in my genre (contemporary middle grade). I read two last year. But now I'm looking for comps and need to read more to get a better idea of today's MG contemporary landscape.

@JustClaude13 8 ай бұрын

My goals are simple next year. I finished my first novel, as a NaNoWriMo project. The book was intended as a single stand-alone, but when I was finished there were two unresolved issues that will require expanding to a trilogy. One goal is to develop the outline of the trilogy and then the outlines for each of the two sequels. A second goal is to develop a new story for NaNoWriMo in 2024. This one is a series of independent short stories that combine to form a longer novel. If you only have time to read one chapter, you still get a complete story.

@AlyssaMatesic 8 ай бұрын

Those sound like great writing goals! Happy New Year!

@sarahcorine1993 9 ай бұрын

This is my favorite KZbinr for sure ❤ thank you for what you do

@AlyssaMatesic 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind comment!

@BellydancerMaliha 8 ай бұрын

These are great goals for the new year. Thank you!

@AlyssaMatesic 8 ай бұрын

You're so welcome! Happy New Year!

@AA-gl9lq 9 ай бұрын

I liked the last point! I have one published book and 2 in the pipeline (with publishers), and still, I feel shy telling others about my writing.

@wilshade 9 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas! Thanks for the goal list. I would've been one to put "finish writing the book" in my goal list.

@tomgrant3893 8 ай бұрын

Your 1 of my sources to help me to understand when I'm being played by a hybrid and the real of how things are likely to work out and to deal with that reality. I've learned to lower my expectations and have told people that as a writer, the industry's getting too complicated and others want better clearer rues, and I do tell people that I have some books on Amazon but haven't earned anything and even tell them other established writers say they are paid for some books and haven't made anything for others, so your advise has been helpful.

@davidgraham9368 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Alyssa. You're the best. God Bless and Merry Christmas.

@christinalaska 9 ай бұрын

Writing routine suggestion: it helped me a ton to find a group of people who co-write (shut up and write- which is in person and online) Also writing sprint groups rocks! Huge opportunity to focus for a short time period- no editing just writing! Thanks Alyssa! ❤ Happy New Year!!

@JustClaude13 8 ай бұрын

I'm too obsessive to just write without editing. That's why I finished the challenge in November with exactly 50,050 words.

@christinalaska 8 ай бұрын

@@JustClaude13 it definitely takes practice to keep moving without editing. Everyone has a different method so I hope you find something that spurs your productivity 💙

@JustClaude13 8 ай бұрын

@@christinalaska So far my method is to make quick typo corrections so I don't end up staring at the screen and thinking how wrong that word is. For me it's fastest to just fix it and move on. Otherwise my concentration goes to pieces.

@christinalaska 8 ай бұрын

@@JustClaude13 I should have congratulated you on winning Nano!

@JustClaude13 8 ай бұрын

@@christinalaska Thank you. It was quite an experience. Did you participate this year?

@Gene1969 8 ай бұрын

I would LOVE to read anything new in my genre! It is so niche that the last book written was in 2010 and that a collection of shorts. There were only two novels written about pickups (1972 and 2009 respectively) and those focused on the experience of rebuilding them. I'm looking for the stories of life with a pickup truck. The daily adventures, the heroic moments, the bond of friendship formed between truck and owner. Where are those books?

@Bookster95 8 ай бұрын

Let's get Alyssa to do a LIVE show in 2024!

@christinabriggs1782 8 ай бұрын

I love these ideas. I will certainly read a new author this year and I'm going to be looking for beta readers soon. So excited to finally be finishing my set of revisions.

@beverley8604 8 ай бұрын

Blessed christmas, and i have learned alot from ur channel. As a struggling author, i have edited alot using ur teaching.

@AlyssaMatesic 8 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you've found my channel helpful! Happy holidays :)

@TheEccentricRaven 8 ай бұрын

I was in fact planning to do goals like this, so you read my mind 😄Since I'm writing a YA dystopia, I plan to read more YA dystopias. I'll try to read a new release in 2024 as well. I'm still working out my writing routine. One thing I'll try to do is go to more cafes or other public writing places in my area because I find that whenever I go to a café or library, it really does help me to focus. I get more words written that way. I don't think I'll be able to take writing courses, but I have several books on writing (including Save the Cat) that I plan to read. I certainly hope that after I finish my first draft and revise once or twice that then I'll find beta readers. I would love to go to a workshop to help fellow writers, too. I've been telling many people lately about how I'm a writer. I will be sure to tell even more and hopefully not blush if they ask if they can read my work.

@AlyssaMatesic 8 ай бұрын

Sounds like you have a great list of goals to work toward! Good luck and happy New Year :)

@TheEccentricRaven 8 ай бұрын

@@AlyssaMatesic Thanks!

@zanemarion7211 8 ай бұрын

My goals are set for two year spurts to start out. Publishing contract by 2026, finish two books this year. And yeah. When you tell others you a writer they will ask you where they can find your books. That is normal. Most don't really understand how hard it is to get published. If it was easy everyone would be writers.

@larssjostrom6565 9 ай бұрын

I My goal for 2024 is to learn editing.

@AFringedGentian 8 ай бұрын

Alyssa, I have a rather different writer’s goal going into 2024 than I’ve ever had, and that is, I want to try writing in another category and genre. I’ve cut my teeth on novel writing in the sci fi genre and I’ve finished the better part of two books, but I feel like I’m stale in this genre, and I want to try my hand at writing for children. I’m a mum so writing for kids seems natural. I want to draw upon memories of my own childhood. The world building will then be out of my own memories and not my own imagination that way.

@AlyssaMatesic 8 ай бұрын

I think branching out and writing in a new genre is a great goal for the new year! Best of luck with all of your writing endeavors in 2024 :)

@christinabriggs1782 8 ай бұрын

I'm looking for a beta reader in New Hampshire. Hoping to find one. Good luck to all of you amazing authors.

@DannyBoy443 5 ай бұрын

In exchanging feedback, what if we think our idea is so good that we're scared to share it without legally protecting the IP?

@geovannymorajr.1065 9 ай бұрын

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@andyclark3530 8 ай бұрын

Honestly, I'm going to slightly disagree on one point. I don't think it's ever too early to start receiving feedback IF you are receiving it from someone you respect, someone who will be honest and you are emotionally prepared to hear it. Feedback can save you a lot of time on your writing journey. I think writers should seek it early, while being strong enough to weather the impact of rude and sycophantic comments.

@O_M554 9 ай бұрын

There’s more than one marketable aspect to my first novel - when it comes to comps, should I be elaborate in my query letter and (briefly) explain why I’ve picked a variety, or should I just pick one or two recent releases that kind of align with the tone of my book even if they don’t share the marketable aspects?

@PetProjects2011 8 ай бұрын

I've told family and friends I wrote a manuscript, and I feel like it didn't change much. Aside from maybe only vague encouragement, but other than than the reactions been pretty ho-hum.

@BellydancerMaliha 8 ай бұрын

@PetProjects2011 I got the same reaction from my family for a novel I wrote in 2009. My husband read the whole novel and then said, “Cool.” His only comment. At least he read it! My sons, to whom it’s dedicated, still haven’t cracked the cover. Don’t be discouraged. Not everyone is a five-star reviewer or even a book lover or a person who has any idea how much work it takes to write and edit a novel. Others will be enthusiastic about this huge accomplishment. You just have to find those people out in the world.

@joevaldez6457 8 ай бұрын

Anyone looking for a critique partner, writing commercial or upmarket thrillers or mysteries, including crime and noir, reply to this comment. I'm revising a 77K word crime thriller and looking to query agents in Spring 2024. My favorite reads of last year are _Blacktop Wasteland_ by S.A. Cosby, _Scorched Grace_ by Margot Douaihy, and _The Guest_ by Emma Cline. Plot or character driven. I'm not the best reader for cozy mysteries, though.