Taking Baby Steps toward her creative goal, Myranda is putting herself out there! Open mic night on stage, sharing her words in a crowded room. When I set my creative goal this year, I set it deliberately, carefully. It needed to be the kind of goal that would keep a steady bit of pressure on. However, it also needed to be a goal I could break down into smaller chunks, as it were. Pressure wouldn’t be enough to sustain me. I knew, I also needed to have little victories. My main goal is to have a fairly polished manuscript by the end of 2020. What does this mean? It means I want to have a finished romance novel manuscript, one I’ve edited to the best of my abilities on my own, so I can then decide next steps. This might mean submitting for professional publishing, or it could mean looking for grants and such so I can have it edited and publish on my own. Before I get to this stage, of course, there are smaller goals I need to manage. First, I need to finish my rough draft. My goal is to have that done by April. I’ve moved […]

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