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Claire Ladds Books: Author Writing and Publishing Goal-Setting for 2023

1st January 2023 by claireladds Leave a Comment

Happy New Year to you! I hope you’ve had a fabulous Christmas, and that 2023 brings you a year of calm and happiness.

This is my first piece of writing of 2023. I wrote yesterday about the achievement – or not – of my goals for 2022 and of what I had learned last year in relation to my writing and author business generally (you can read about my lessons learned in 2022 here).

Today is all about goal-setting for the next twelve months. What I learned more than anything last year was how I achieve the most when I stick to sensible plans and don’t allow myself to deviate, either in my head or on paper/on screen, and how this drastically affects my mindset.

With this in mind, I have chosen a theme for my goal-setting for the next twelve months, to encompass my writing, publishing and readership growth.

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Writing Year in Review: What did I learn from 2022?

31st December 2022 by claireladds Leave a Comment

We are almost at the end of 2022! As we approach the end of what has been a year I, personally, will be pleased to see behind me, and hope for a much better, peaceful, and (fingers crossed) more smooth-running year ahead, it’s time for me to do a round-up of my writing year. So – what did I do, what went well, or not so great, and what – if anything – did I learn from this year in my writing career?

I split my goals for 2022 into three parts: creation, growth, business.

You can read about my 2022 goals here.

Did I achieve my creation goals? What did I learn about myself?

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My 2022 Author Goals, and 2021 Writing Year in Review

8th January 2022 by claireladds 1 Comment

It’s taken me a little while to write this post. I promised I would write an update on the goals I set at the beginning of 2021 – although, to be honest, I almost didn’t. It wasn’t a great year, by any means, for so many different reasons (pandemic included). I’d set lofty goals and they were always going to be tough to achieve, but they gave me something to aim for. When you read what they were, below, you’ll see what I mean – and I’ll state up front that I definitely didn’t get anywhere near achieving them.

It’s taken me quite a while to mull this over and decide what kinds of goals I want to set myself in 2022. This year, I’ve decided to be a bit kinder to myself, try to stay more focused, and to set realistic, achievable goals. I also have two ‘watchwords’ for the year: creation, and growth. My overarching goal is to develop more of everything in my author business, from books in my back catalogue, to formats for my work, to sales, readers, and reading and writing connections (some of whom might become friends – I love it when that happens!).

So. Let me start with 2021, and report back (as promised) on what I did – and didn’t get done:

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