In less than 24 hours, it will be a new year. Time to render resolutions,
set goals, and establish work habits. And writers are not exempt. So what are
the writer’s resolution? Lose weight? Maybe! Get out of debt? Definitely! Write
more? ABSOLUTELY!!! Here are three things EVERY writer should put on their
resolution list for 2015.
1. Schedule Writing Time.
A Writer Writes! Point! Blank! Period!!! So schedule time to write. We
have busy lives, but we cannot consider ourselves writers if we do not write.
If you need help, check out writing challenges such as 365K, Writer’s Digest 30-Minute Writing
Challenge, and P&W Writer’s Challenge.
2. Find An Agent.
Research agents. Follow them on Twitter. Read their blogs. Find out who
their clients are and read their books. Then query! Query! Query! Do not be
afraid of rejections. Rejection is a good thing to writers. Think about it.
Normally, you might end up with a rejection which is not a form letter. It
might be the one which gives a list of ways to make the manuscript better. See,
a critique you didn’t have to pay for. These agencies are looking for new
clients - Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Erin Murphy Literary Agency, and Writer’s Digest Guide to Lit. Agencies.
3. Read books in the genre in which you write.
To be great writers, we have to be great readers. If you write picture
books, read picture books. If you write Middle Grade, read Middle Grade. If you
write Young Adult, read Young Adult. Read! Read! Read!
Now, set up your write station. Gather your supplies. And prepare to
write and make history in 2015. Also, here is a bonus poem. Something for you
to ponder. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Happy New Year
Well, I woke up this morning
to a beautiful day
2014 is slipping away
2015 is here to stay
Time to make new wishes,
Cause that's what they are
The word "resolution"
is outdated by far
It's outdated to me
‘Cause we seldom follow through
Pledging to eat healthy,
lose weight,
just to name a few
But what makes "resolution"
the word not to use
“Cause it means "perseverance" and quitting is what we choose
January and February,
our resolution is kick in gear
March, April, May
quitting is getting near
June comes around,
no more gym to see
July, it's official,
resolution is decease
But what if we approach
the new year differently
Instead of "resolution",
"New Years Wish" is the key
We can wish to be thinner,
healthier, and mature
Wish to get out of debt,
and be financially secure
‘Cause if we make a wish
We hope it will come true
But in case it doesn't happen,
our self-esteem we wouldn't lose
And then we won't feel like a failure,
when our attempts didn't succeed
So death to you "resolution",
"New Years Wish"
is what we need
Thanks Jackie. Great post!
ReplyDeleteHappy new year Jackie!Great post!
ReplyDeleteDear Jackie,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your poem-making.
I hope many more poem posts from you will make the scene,
here in 2015!
Happy New Year!
Lovely poem, Jackie! I've seen in Korea where they write a New Year's wish and tie it on a tree or something like that.
ReplyDeleteJackie: My resolutions or shall I say goals are to read more, write more and create more. Happy New Year. ~Suzy
ReplyDeleteThanks Jackie! Happy to read this on the first day of 2015. Here's to more writing time in 2015.
ReplyDeleteHappy 2015, Jackie! Your poem has started us off with a smile.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Years!!!! Lovely poem and great tips to start us off on the write track for 2015 :)
ReplyDeleteThis is sound advice, Jackie. . . and doable! You are right. A writer isn't a writer if he or she doesn't write. Thanks for the reminder and motivation. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteDunno if you saw this before...
ReplyDeleteyet, here it is once moe, curly:
Greetings, earthling! Need summore new-fangled-thots N ideers? Look no firdr, brudda. Can't stay long. Done gotta git, Paw... yet, if Im a sower, we plant the Seed; if Im an artist, we RITE the Word:
Would U please help a plethora of King Size, wildchild, rawkuss poetry/wordz which are lookin 4 a home in thy novelty?? Thx. Whew. They're pretty insane. They're bereft of reason. Oi! Blimey! They're bloody PINK spiders!
Gotta gobba lotta shrewd, surreal, supersonic, sardonic satires, sassy N savvy elixers N electronic elegance (and palpable nuance) on our YOUTHwitheTRUTH blogs. Wannum? Have'm. N'joym. Gettm outta my hair!!!
How mucha wanna betcha our sugar-high-mojo, pleasure-beyond-measure, fuse-blowin-exploits R a copious madhouse of one lavish bookay D.O.A.? Our proFUSE NRGod who leads U.S. to explosive fairy-tales in the 'one-stop-shop' symphony Upstairs? God's the BigDude, the Owner of ElysianFields, the Grand Prize, the Austere Overdrive, NoPurchaseNecessary: our bombastic tenaCITY on a Hill which'll plant the Seeds 4u2 grow-up to new N greater heights!! Mama mia! Thatsa good pasta!!
CAUTION: our 22ish, avant-guard, accurately-atrocious, offa-the-reservation-like-Jimmy-Hoffa, metal breadcrumms R sooo out-of-order, toots, they're an intimate wealth of bottomless sophistication. And dats da lethal fak, Jak. Go ahead. Sue me. Yawn. But, yet, here's the perennial KOO D'TAH: who else has actually SEEN the Great Beyond in spirit & lived to tella youse bout the bionic, bloated, brevity-like-earth we're living on?? Yes, earthling, Im an NDE, almost salivating4salvation. So gain altitude, never attitude: death has no intrinsick favorites.
If Mr. abSUREditty's an ultra-great-reward, and not everyone enters, Q: why is it an excruciating deluge of epic-.357-caliber where the quality's a limitless bulldozer plowin, pushin-your-power-cord with eternal goodies? A: the Prize-A+-TheEnd just gives U.S. moe-curley-graphix 2 VitSee: an explosion-of-extravagance which few R asking 4 anymore! Grrr. They're too concerned withe grotesque sanity of ambivilant piss-ants which swiftly crawl like lemmings to their scorecard destruction. C'est la guerre.
THANK GAWWWD!!! the Don has the ebullient BAWLS!!! to do the Manifest Destiny!!! To lead U.S. forward to the White House Upstairs with his SQUARES!!!
So, break-free, earthling; be like a contraversial outgrowth of incredibly-intoxicating-effusiveness in your zeitgeist to give the ultimate, stunning, backknuckle potency: Wiseabove. Wanna join this useFULL idiot Upstairs 4 the most zany, kooky, X-acto-knife antidotes? Extremely exquisite, explicit endorphins in abundance? Puh-lenty of pulverizingly-tantalizing psychopathic psychosomatics with eXtras? i2i-kick-velocity's-ass-ultra-maximum-rocket-fuel-party-hardy at my pad ya ever encountered without d'New Joisey accent 4 an eternal slew of precarious, magnanimous & primeval absurdities indelibly etched in the granite corridors of eternity with a total-barrage-of-melt-in-thy-mouth 'depth-of-undenial'???
Make Your Choice -SAW
...cuzz nobody gitts outta here alive, earthling.
Dunno if you saw this before...
ReplyDeleteyet, here it is once moe, curly:
Greetings, earthling! Need summore new-fangled-thots N ideers? Look no firdr, brudda. Can't stay long. Done gotta git, Paw... yet, if Im a sower, we plant the Seed; if Im an artist, we RITE the Word:
Would U please help a plethora of King Size, wildchild, rawkuss poetry/wordz which are lookin 4 a home in thy novelty?? Thx. Whew. They're pretty insane. They're bereft of reason. Oi! Blimey! They're bloody PINK spiders!
Gotta gobba lotta shrewd, surreal, supersonic, sardonic satires, sassy N savvy elixers N electronic elegance (and palpable nuance) on our YOUTHwitheTRUTH blogs. Wannum? Have'm. N'joym. Gettm outta my hair!!!
How mucha wanna betcha our sugar-high-mojo, pleasure-beyond-measure, fuse-blowin-exploits R a copious madhouse of one lavish bookay D.O.A.? Our proFUSE NRGod who leads U.S. to explosive fairy-tales in the 'one-stop-shop' symphony Upstairs? God's the BigDude, the Owner of ElysianFields, the Grand Prize, the Austere Overdrive, NoPurchaseNecessary: our bombastic tenaCITY on a Hill which'll plant the Seeds 4u2 grow-up to new N greater heights!! Mama mia! Thatsa good pasta!!
CAUTION: our 22ish, avant-guard, accurately-atrocious, offa-the-reservation-like-Jimmy-Hoffa, metal breadcrumms R sooo out-of-order, toots, they're an intimate wealth of bottomless sophistication. And dats da lethal fak, Jak. Go ahead. Sue me. Yawn. But, yet, here's the perennial KOO D'TAH: who else has actually SEEN the Great Beyond in spirit & lived to tella youse bout the bionic, bloated, brevity-like-earth we're living on?? Yes, earthling, Im an NDE, almost salivating4salvation. So gain altitude, never attitude: death has no intrinsick favorites.
If Mr. abSUREditty's an ultra-great-reward, and not everyone enters, Q: why is it an excruciating deluge of epic-.357-caliber where the quality's a limitless bulldozer plowin, pushin-your-power-cord with eternal goodies? A: the Prize-A+-TheEnd just gives U.S. moe-curley-graphix 2 VitSee: an explosion-of-extravagance which few R asking 4 anymore! Grrr. They're too concerned withe grotesque sanity of ambivilant piss-ants which swiftly crawl like lemmings to their scorecard destruction. C'est la guerre.
THANK GAWWWD!!! the Don has the ebullient BAWLS!!! to do the Manifest Destiny!!! To lead U.S. forward to the White House Upstairs with his SQUARES!!!
So, break-free, earthling; be like a contraversial outgrowth of incredibly-intoxicating-effusiveness in your zeitgeist to give the ultimate, stunning, backknuckle potency: Wiseabove. Wanna join this useFULL idiot Upstairs 4 the most zany, kooky, X-acto-knife antidotes? Extremely exquisite, explicit endorphins in abundance? Puh-lenty of pulverizingly-tantalizing psychopathic psychosomatics with eXtras? i2i-kick-velocity's-ass-ultra-maximum-rocket-fuel-party-hardy at my pad ya ever encountered without d'New Joisey accent 4 an eternal slew of precarious, magnanimous & primeval absurdities indelibly etched in the granite corridors of eternity with a total-barrage-of-melt-in-thy-mouth 'depth-of-undenial'???
Make Your Choice -SAW
...cuzz nobody gitts outta here alive, earthling.