April Platform Challenge - Day 2

Today's platform-building task is to set goals, including short-term and long-term goals. Robert Lee Brewer wants us to also make a list of goals to accomplish by the end of this year; and then, make a list of goals to accomplish before I die.

Here are my goal lists:

Short-term goals:

• Complete April Platform Challenge on My Name Is Not Bob blog
• Complete April PAD Challenge on Poetic Asides blog
• Get an ebook of my memoir ready for publication
• Submit poetry to chapbook and full-length book contests
• Have lots of sales at the LA Times Festival of Books
• Finish editing Keith Alan Hamilton’s Nature IQ book of poetry
• Answer Daisy’s questions for her SunnyRoomStudio blog
• Keep on with my social network marketing efforts
• Set up blog tour for release of my ebook

Long-term goals (same as goals to accomplish by the end of 2012):

• Publish my ebook
• Produce and release a CD with Paul’s music
• Finish my novel and find an agent for it
• Publish full-length poetry collection
• Continue writing articles for PsychAlive and Naturally Savvy

Goals to accomplish before I die

• Be a better wife, mother, and friend
• Become a grandmother
• Travel to places on my bucket list
• Live in Italy for at least four months
• Erase the stigma of mental illness and suicide so that lives can be saved

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My 2012 writing resolutions

It’s time to get back to my writing life again. I know this list looks daunting but it’s not much more than I’ve already been doing for the last six months or so. But I must say that writing this all down makes it seem more ambitious.

Hopefully, this list will encourage my writing readers to join me.

·         Participate in the January River of Stones project – notice something properly and write a small piece (stone) about it every day this month

·        Finish Doreen Cox’ Adventures in Mother Sitting book and write a review

·        Read and comment on other writing blogs to get ready for a May blog tour promoting the release of the eBook and paperback editions of Leaving the Hall Light On

·       Write a thousand words a week on my novel

·       Write at least one poem a week – use Robert E. Brewer’s prompts at Poetry Asides as a jump start

·        Enter a poem into a contest or for publication at least once a month

·        Post a poem a week on my Facebook poetry group pages, Poetry Pact and Poets. Writers, Photographers, Musicians, Artists ~ Networking Group

·        Continue with my once a month posts for Naturally Savvy and PsychAlive

·        Get my three- minute video up on Marla Miller’s Over 45 women speak website

·        Start meeting with a writing group

·        Write, write, write, journal, journal, journal and blog, blog, blog (here and on Red Room) – just do a bit of writing everyday