Planning your Future

Planning your Future: "Planning - How might this work in practice?

Let's say you want to be a famous novelist. What do you need in order to achieve this? A fantastic manuscript and a publisher would help. What do you need to create a fantastic manuscript? A great plot, a decent style and the discipline to write. How will you go about developing these?

Your answer will depend on your experience so far. Perhaps you have already had some short stories published and have a terrific idea for a novel, but you have a problem sticking to a long term project. To overcome this, you need to decide exactly what is holding you back and then do something about it. This could involve making some changes. If lack of time is the problem, get up an hour earlier, cut down on your TV viewing, skip the after-work trip to the pub on Friday, get a babysitter once a week, delegate some of the housework - whatever it takes."