I have a list of goals for the year, but I can sum them up with a simple quote by Anne Lamott from her fantastic book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.

“Be afraid of not getting your writing done. If something inside you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work.”

So there it is. Write every day. Write with real emotion. I will walk the Dimholt Road and when I see the gate ahead of me telling me the way is shut, I will continue down the path of the writer.