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Today begins a new month of 2009. Even though I did not do it deliberately, today was the day I started writing. My first task was to write about a memory of my mom. I had made a time limit of just 15 minutes because I felt it would work for me.

I feel really good I started completing a beginning of a goal I made at the beginning of the year. Another thing I did that helped me get started writing, was I talked to friends about what I thought I was interested in writing about and they gave me ideas of how to get started. My bigger goal is to complete my first book by the end of 2009.

One of my friends, Karen Pierce Gonzalez, wrote a book called, Folktales: What are yours? and after I read it I realized all writing doesn’t have to be a novel. I mean, I knew that but when I thought about writing, I keep thinking about the whole process and not just taking it a step at a time.

Another lovely lady, Lynn Serafinn, wrote a book titled, Garden of the Soul. In reading her book, I was reminded about the creative process of writing and coming back to my self and knowing that if I want to write, I should write. Not to focus on the fear, but celebrate the possibilities. Remember the joy of writing and

One of the reasons I work with authors is because I get the opportunity to read their works and experience their writing style. I enjoy becoming familiar with their journey of writing and I truly enjoy it.

So I hope if you are a writer but haven’t accomplished all your goals you started out at the first of the year, you will realize it isn’t too late. Start a new and realize you can still complete your goals.

Here are a few thoughts:

**When setting goals, you may not start exactly when you first thing, but the important things is all about doing it and taking the time to do it. I have heard from other writers they choose other “requirements” for themselves to make the time for writing. Some of them will set a word count to hit each time they write, some will do all their writing 1 day in a week.

**Know that your initial goal may change as time passes.

**Keep moving forward. Stopping is one of the things that derails goals from being completed.

**If you need help, ask for it. Sometimes, it just helps when you allow others to give you suggestions

Now your turn–are there writing goals you haven’t finished or continued? Share them and we can help each other to complete them.