These are all things I can’t control, but I want anyway. Things you can control are called “goals.” Things you can’t control are called “wants.” These are wants.
- To sell a novel
- To sell a nonfiction book
- To find a regular writing gig – reviewing, babbling, etc. – Doesn’t matter if it’s a newspaper (Will there be any still published by the end of 2009?), magazine, or web site, just as long as it pays and is interesting work.
- To get into at least one anthology
- To do a podcast
- To go to Bouchercon – I really regret missing Baltimore last year.
- To go to New York, Chicago, or San Francisco at least once this year.
That’s what I want to do. How about you?
Edged in Blue 
Jim, here’s a nonfiction/web book I think you could sell easily–“Building Web-Sites for Authors”–these types of books are really easy to sell, and should be able to be done by proposal.
Notice he didn’t put “To have sex while writing a book” – he can’t multi task haha
I want to shave a yak, build an ark and have one day with my kids fighting. i think the first 2 are more relistic.
oh that’s without fighting.
I haven’t even thought about it, and here we are 11 days in.
I suppose I should try for Godhead. After all, I already feel like I’m being crucified. It can’t be that much farther, right?
…I’m still stuck on the difference between goals and wants. What if it starts out as a goal (something I believe I can control) and factors beyond my control kick in. Do I need to re-classify it as a want? Is a want a wish list? Sorry…don’t mean to cause trouble…
Dave – I could, but I’d need a decent portfolio to back that up. Which means I need to do some serious shilling for business.
Honey – If you don’t mind me behind you with the laptop on your back, I’m game.
Ziggins – You’d worry if they didn’t fight. They’d be plotting something.
Bill – Try becoming the All Being, Master of the Time-Space Dimension. Then you should see Europe.
Yen – I suppose a goal is something you should DO whereas a want is something you want to HAPPEN. I want to lose weight. That’s a goal. I want to get down to 240 pounds by the end of the year. Given that a lot of factors beyond my control or not well within my control could prevent that, losing weight is a goal though the actual weight is a want. Or you could just tell me I’m full of it and make up your own definition.