by Sophie Pembroke | Jan 10, 2022 | Author Life, Writing Goals
Want to make 2022 your best year yet? You don’t need new year’s resolutions. You need a new year’s plan. January is traditionally a time for resolutions – for resolving to do better. To do more – or less – of something, to change, to be a new...
by Sophie Pembroke | Oct 28, 2020 | First Drafts, Writing Craft, Writing Goals
Hoping to win NaNoWriMo this year? Here’s how. I took part in my first National Novel Writing Month in 2005, fifteen years ago, and won. That story was never published, but it was the first time I actually finished a book – and I definitely credit it with...
by Sophie Pembroke | Sep 9, 2020 | Author Life, Back to School, Writing Goals
Want to smash your writing goals? Then you need a plan. If you followed along with last week’s Back To School Goal Setting for Writers session, then you already know what you want to achieve with your writing this year. (If you didn’t, go back and read it now!) So now...
by Sophie Pembroke | Sep 2, 2020 | Author Life, Back to School, Writing Goals
The RIGHT writing goals Setting writing goals for the year in September, rather than January, has always made perfect sense to me. Maybe I just never really grew out of being that kid who was excited to shop for new stationery at the end of the summer holidays, ready...