Before I get started with the regular blabberings I'd like to say thanks to all the subscribers to this newsletter. It's really an honour (and amazes me each time) to be writing to so many other writers. I hope I come up with something useful for each of you at least now and then. I do try. Anyway, thanks for your support as subscribers.

One thing we may not consider very often are our goals as writers.

Of course, one goal is to be paid for our work, unless it's a personal journal you write and keep to yourself. Another goal is fame of some variety. Not everyone wants to be the next Stephen King or Stephen Leacock but we do want to be read and know we are read. Another goal is to spread information. From advertising copywriters to horror fiction writers we all have some message to send to the world at large or some part of the world at large.

Are there other goals? Quite likely. Those are the three I came up with myself. If you think of others let me know. It's interesting to see why people write and what they hope to gain from it.

A goal isn't the same as a reward. Goals are something to achieve whereas rewards are something special for after the success of the achievement. Are the goals more important than the rewards, I think so. It's probably more challenging and fulfilling to aspire and achieve your goals than the reward after the fact.

Anyway, I wrote about goals before, setting reasonable goals and so on. But, I didn't really think too much about what goals we have, as writers.

Would you write out those three goals and keep them where you can peek up at them as you work? Maybe you feel silly about doing so. Or maybe you think those goals are too bold to put on display. But, I think they are reasonable goals. If you put yourself into your writing you should have large, strong, important goals in mind. You're worth it.

Happy Writing.