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Your Writing Dreams: 20 questions

A little while ago, I did an entry on Achieving your Writing Dreams.

I thought it would be a fun exercise to think about your ideal writing day. You’ve “made it.” You’re doing exactly what you want to do.

1. What time do you get up? What’s for breakfast? Do you go right to work with a cup of coffee by your side, or do you do something else first?
2. What are you working on? Are you writing a novel? Freelancing? Writing a non-fiction book?
3. Where is your office? Is it where it is now, whether your bedroom, kitchen table, or spare room? What’s the furniture like? Or maybe your office is portable? Where do you do your writing?
4. What’s the next thing you do? Do you take a break from writing and exercise, research, grab a snack?
5. Do you have an assistant? Do you team up with other people to get your work done, do research, run errands?
6. Do you keep your kids with you during the day? Are you shuffling other duties along with your writing?
7. Lunchtime! How much writing have you done? What’s your plan for the afternoon?
8. Do you head back to writing or work on something else? Maybe a trip to the library, or a walk to clear your head?
9. Do you cook dinner, go out, or does your significant other take care of that?
10. What’s your evening look like? Writing? Editing? Do you show someone what you’ve worked on today?
11. When do you go to bed?
12. Do you have an agent? An editor? Are you self-publishing?
13. How many of your books are already on your bookshelf?
14. What kinds of promotional activities do you do? Book signings? Conferences? Do you attend, or speak?
15. What problems do you no longer have because of your writing career?
16. What problems has your writing career created for you?
17. Are you making enough money to support yourself? Your family?
18. What’s the best thing about your writing life? Is there anything you’d like to change about it?
19. Whom have you met since achieving your writing success? Whom do you still want to meet?
20. Has a stranger recognized you? Do you want them to?

I believe that in order to achieve your dreams, you have to have a concrete idea what your dream is. That means accept the good, and the not so good, that will come to you because of it. For example, you might love staying home but miss the social life of the office. You might be able to keep your kids with you, but that would take away from your writing time. You’ll meet new people, but some of your current friends may not feel comfortable with your new success.

Have fun with it! Post your answers in the comments if you like.