Using goals to kick start your writing career
... and why goals are better than 'resolutions'. This time last year, I started the Exploring Authoring blog and set myself the goal of finishing the first draft of my young adult novel before my 30th birthday. In the past, I’d started plenty of years with the vague, non-specific, resolution to ‘do more writing’ or ‘make time to write’ - but I’d never had a concrete, measurable goal. Fast forward to January 2017 and I am not only in possession of a completed first draft, I’ve