In my early years as writer, I often felt that I wanted to write something ... but I didn't know what.
Maybe you're in the same situation. You don't know what you want to work on during 2024. There are lots of
possibilities you might be considering: starting a blog (or reviving a dormant one), trying your hand at freelancing, writing for local publications, sending short stories to competitions, writing a whole novel ... but you aren't yet sure what's going to be the right fit.
If that sounds like you, then don't feel pressured to set year-long goals. Instead, it might work a
lot better to set smaller goals, month by month or even week by week, so you can experiment with different types of writing.
Here are some small writing goals you might want to consider during January:
- Write for 5 or 10 minutes each day (any kind of writing you want)
- Work through a list of writing exercises or writing prompts (e.g. authority.pub/writing-exercises-adults), maybe picking one from each category
- Write a short story or a piece of flash fiction, perhaps in a genre that's new to you
- Craft a short piece of creative non-fiction (e.g. describing a memory from your
childhood)
It's fine if your writing goal this month, or this whole year, is simply to explore your creativity: to have fun playing around with writing and to see what types of writing project particularly appeal to you.
If you'd like some extra support in digging into different areas of writing, I've put Get Writing on half-price sale for the rest of January, making it $10 instead of $20. Use the code januarywriting to get your discount.
In Get Writing,
you'll find four guides to four key areas of writing (short stories, novels, freelancing, and blogging) along with a bunch of extra goodies, including short story prompts, novel prompts, a wordcount tracker, and more.
You can get all the details here: aliventures.com/get-writing
Happy writing,
Ali
P.S. If you missed last
week's Aliventures blog post, here it is:
Six Ways to Track Your Freelancing Time and Income (and Why You Should)
