March Writing Updates and Goals

I feel like it has been a while since I did a writing update. The beginning of this year has been hectic. I cannot believe that it is already March. Where the heck does the time go?

While I could always be doing more, I feel like I have drastically increased how much I write compared to a year ago. I feel like consistency is a major key. I may only be able to write 500 words a day, but if I do that 5x a week for a month, that's over 10,000 words. I'm still not quite hitting that mark, but that's what I'm aiming at right now--500 words a day.

Here are a few of the things I'm proud of so far in 2018:

• 2 picture book drafts completed
• 1 picture book revision
• 2 middle grade short story drafts
• 31 poems written
• 9 rejections (this is a good thing!)
• Chosen to be authlete in Madness! Poetry
• Active in 2 critique groups
• completed round 2 judging for Cybils picture book/board book categories
• Read 40 books (all but 8 were picture books)

And here are a few of my writing goals for this month:

• write 1 new picture book manuscript
• write 10 poems
• revise 1 picture book
• revise and submit middle grade short story
• attend my critique groups
• outline my chapter book so I can start writing it next month
• continue to read good books