What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself?

I don’t set a lot of personal goals. For me they have a tendency to feel imposing and put a lot of pressure on me mentally. I mainly just focus on the idea of something being a normal, consistent part of my life so as to avoid all of that. That doesn’t mean I haven’t set any recently.

Two personal goals that are tied together that I set recently were participating in NaNoWriMo last year and trying to write on my blog every day for a few months.

I didn’t meet the word count for NaNo, but still made significant progress, and considering I was simultaneously working on my blog every day, I technically wrote a lot more. Combined, I still didn’t hit the word count goal, but that isn’t what is important. I learned a lot about how I approach writing stories versus my blog, and although I haven’t made significant progress on my stories since then, I haven’t stopped writing. I’m still picking away at the ideas from NaNoWriMo, building new ideas and running into new stories that I want to write, all while still doing these daily prompts.

I may have failed at hitting 50,000 words in one month (it really is challenging!) but I haven’t fully given up. NaNoWriMo is coming up quickly again, and I might see if I can do it this time. Even if I don’t, I do know that, at the very least, I’ve managed to hit an unspoken long term goal for my blog. Next week, October 14th, should be the one year mark of writing daily. With that in mind, it seems even more likely that I could succeed at 50,000 words for NaNo.

Let’s see where things go!