2023 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Day 1
Get your writing goals started right in 2023 with the first ever Get Started Right Writing Challenge. For the first day of this writing challenge, make a list.
Happy New Year! And welcome to the first day of the seven-day Get Started Right Writing Challenge! I'm excited to get this year started off on the right foot and will be participating as well.
For the first day, make a list of 3-5 writing goals for 2023. These can be straight up writing goals, like write a page of fiction each day, and/or publishing goals, like submit a query each week. Or do maybe promotion goals, reading goals, socializing goals. They're your goals; so you get to decide.
It's OK if you get a little overly ambitious with some of these goals, but I suggest you make most of them achievable (even if they're tough goals). Share your list in the comments below.
Note on commenting: If you wish to comment on the site, go to Disqus to create a free new account, verify your account on this site below (one-time thing), and then comment away. It's free, easy, and the comments (for the most part) don't require manual approval like on the old site.
*****
Writer's Digest University is pleased to present an exclusive virtual conference for novel writers! On January 28-29, our Novel Writing Virtual Conference will provide expert insights from SIX award-winning and best-selling authors on the finer points of how to write a novel.
*****
Here's my list of writing goals for 2023:
- Write 1,500 words per week.
- Write at least one poem per week.
- Read a new book each month.
- Finish a first draft of novel.
- Put together a collection of poems.
- Attend at least four in-person literary events during the year.
Maybe not the most ambitious set of goals to start the year (some of my previous lists have been a little over the top), but I'll be super stoked if I can achieve all of them. In fact, I'd be happy with completing half this list by next year.
What are your goals?
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
