2025 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Day 1
Get your writing goals started right in 2025 with the return of the 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 10-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 2025. 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 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). For instance, it's probably a bit out of your control to expect a Pulitzer or Nobel this year. Share your list in the comments below.
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Here's my list of writing goals for 2025:
- 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.
- Make at least one poetry submission each month.
- Attend at least four in-person literary events during the year.
I'm going to admit that this is almost the same exact list I made for myself in 2023 (and that I was only able to achieve two of them), so I'll be beyond stoked if I can achieve all of them this year. I'm rolling up my sleeves now.
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.
