These are not resolutions in the New Year’s Eve ‘I’m going to promise to utterly change my life, eat right, exercise, and then feel awful when I fail’, but rather SMART goals that I want to achieve in the coming year.
S = Specific
M=Measurable
A=Attainable
R=Realistic
T=Timely
I want to submit to each quarter of The Writers of The Future Contest. (Clearly if I win I stop submitting.)
I want to submit short stories to no less than three professional pay-grade markets.
Submit Love & Loyalty to another professional publisher.
Complete the first draft on Command & Control.
Write a complete short story outside of my genre.
NO!!!!!!!!!! Not a SMART goal!!!!!!! (We have to do this in school now and a more Dilberted process I have never run across!!!!)