Make Writing Goals to Guide Your Fiction Writing From Start to Finish!

In order to establish writing goals to guide your fiction writing from start to finish, from idea to book store shelves, you must first understand the entire fiction writing process. Once you know all of the processes and expectations, you can effectively establish great goals for your writing that will guide you effortlessly through the entire process while staying focused and on track.

Goals for writing are just like any other goals you might make for yourself. The milestones of your writing journey must be achievable, measurable, have a deadline and be rewarded upon completion. Most people write from the hip, which is good, but without a solid plan, the writing can stop at any time or once your book is written, it may just sit in a box for ten years before it is even touched again.

When looking at the dynamics of writing goals, you must look at the entire writing process from start to finish. Your goals should be created with your primary purpose in mind using effective goal setting strategies. The primary purpose is the end result you want for your book. For example, a primary purpose goal would be formed such as "you want to sell 1000 copies of your new self-published fiction novel by December 31, 2012 and for achieving this purpose, you will earn enough money to seek publication through a major publishing brand."

The primary writing goals for fiction writers are your target or the main goal you want to achieve from your book writing efforts. You should have a primary goal in life (your life's dream) and each of the books you are writing should have their own primary purpose stepping toward that overall life's dream. In other words, your primary purpose of the fiction book you are writing is a stepping stone toward your life's purpose or dream.

Once you have your life's purpose and individual book's primary purpose figured out, then you will work on smaller more action orientated goals that will directly lead up to your primary purpose and eventually to your life's purpose. These smaller goals are called process goals and are what you take action on to get the ball rolling toward your primary purpose.

Now that you understand the structuring of tiered goals (life's goal, primary purpose, process goals), you are ready for a rundown on the entire writing process to help you with setting writing goals and actual examples of goals.

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