[ Author Brittany Wang - Writing Goals 2019 ]
hey friends I'm kicking off the new year with a brand new hair color and some
fresh new goals so in this video I'm gonna take you through my writing and
opera life goals for 2019 if you watched last week's video I took you through how
I became a full time writer in one year and I did that by taking you through my
old ippolit journal it's a fairly lengthy video but it was super fun and
just had all the highlights so if you missed that I'll definitely link that
below and in the cards but today I'm hoping that it's going to be a short
video because I'm just gonna take you through my 2019 bullet journal and just
show you my goals for this year not only to keep myself accountable
which this will be really cool to watch in a year and I encourage any of you
that have an author tube to do a video like this so you can watch it back but
the other reason is I hope that this just inspires you guys to set your goals
for 2019 and make this year your best year yet
alright so let's get right into it again this is my 2019 bullet journal my
husband got it for me I just love it nevertheless she persisted and that's
basically what I'm going to be doing this year I don't know what my word of
the year is quite yet but I love that this is gonna sort of be motivating me
and then we get into my 2019 goals page and if you guys love bullet journaling
and you want to know some spreads that you can be using or some just different
tricks to make it like pretty but not like overwhelming to sort of create your
pages which is what I try to stick to I'm going to have a video next week that
actually takes you through how I set up my bullet journal for 2019 and I have
like a weekly spread and monthly spread and all kinds of fun stuff so if you
don't want to miss that make sure to subscribe but for this video let's get
into the goals so first of all I do my goals and categories and I do that for
my bimonthly goals but also my yearly goals and so the first category is
obviously writing and you're probably wondering okay well what are the other
categories we'll get there but for my writing goals for the first one I want
to finish draft two because I've got about halfway done and I want to prepare
four Vedas so I'm going to be finishing my CP rounds hopefully this month maybe
early February but I really want to get to my first beta reader round which I've
never done before but I'm super excited if you don't know already I'm writing a
why a faerie fantasy novel and I do have a couple videos about that so I'll link
that below and in the cards if you might check it out but if you're interested in
being a beta there is a contact form on my website at Arthur Burney mancom and
you can just send me a quick message and be like hey I'd love to be considered a
beta and I will definitely get back to you my second goal here is then to do
one to two rounds of betas before pitch Wars which is in August and if you don't
know what pitch Wars is it's this huge contest to get like an author mentor to
help you finish preparing your manuscript to send to agents and a lot
of agents sort of get in on this at the end and it's just a way to sort of get
help from a mentor but then possibly streamline the process to get an agent
but you have to get picked so I really want to do again one to two rounds of
beta readers before August so I can get my manuscript to the best place possible
and see what happens with the tours then obviously I want to you enter pitch Wars
or I sort of have here start querying so if I you know don't make pitch wars or
I'm a little behind in submitting I might just you know get my manuscript to
a good place soon after that and then start querying myself and I'm also still
like in this position though of like do I want to go traditional or do I want to
self-publish and I think my main goal is to do traditional I would really really
love that but I'm also really entrepreneurial and I just love sort of
having my hands in the whole process as well so I'm sort of looking at maybe
starting to query and go traditional but then if I'm sort of getting a lot of
feedback that the book is really good but just not what people are looking for
right now I know that you guys are really excited to read it so this book
is gonna get published so if I need to or if I'm inspired to I will definitely
sort of transition self-publishing route but I want to make
that sort of final decision this year and get my book to a place that I am
ready to move forward then if you didn't know already this book that I'm writing
is actually the first in a plan to do ology I have booked to roughly outlined
but I want to get booked you like more solidly outlined this year so probably
following pitch Wars I'll sort of be moving into more focusing on a book too
and then have the first draft completed during NaNoWriMo and prepped over sort
of areas so by the end of next year I want to have both books written at least
the first draft of the second book complete now believe it or not the rest
of this page is full of goals that don't have to do with writing books but have
everything to do with my author career and journey and direction in life and
like I said earlier I just did a whole video about how I became a full-time
writer in a year but that entailed a lot of building a community I also don't
just want to be a writer but I want to be sort of a teacher and mentor kind of
figure for other writers and resourcing writers and helping them while I'm also
on this journey myself and with all that I decided that I was going to step down
for my day job along with the support of my husband and sort of pursue that and
while I'm not making money on books yet because I don't have them published I
wanted to start sort of resourcing authors and figuring out a way to make
some money on the side while also building up my platform so that when my
books are published I already have a readership that is excited to read them
so this next category is sort of all about my author platform and how I am
creating content for authors and one of my goals is to develop batching rhythms
for all of those sort of portals of content and what I mean by batching
rhythms is that when you're creating content like YouTube or Instagram or
blogs or whatever it takes time and it takes planning and if you're just doing
it day in day out it sort of gets overwhelming but if you can
figure out sessions where you can batch that content all at once and then sort
of put it out over time that it just becomes a lot easier so I would like to
create batching rhythms for my website and newsletter my website services cuz I
help authors create websites for themselves for their platform I have a
blog I have my social media accounts I have my youtube channel here which I'm
so thankful that you guys are here supporting my channel so thank you I
have a different events that I run throughout the year and then I have my
plotter life writers Facebook group and so I have a lot of things that I'm not
only writing my book but I'm creating content here and so I want to figure out
like routines and rhythms that are going to help me sort of not make this
overwhelming and sort of pull all of my platform together and find times that I
can create content sort of in blocks and I know that when I've successfully done
this this past year life has just been so much easier and I've enjoyed the
process so much more so that's a little tip for you guys to definitely consider
making that a goal if you have places that you are sharing tips and help and
sort of having services like I do speaking of services I launched my
author website services so helping authors create their author websites and
central hubs for their author platform and so I have a few goals for that and
again making sort of an income and helping authors through these services
and different things are helping me be able to write and spend time on writing
as well so for this I wanted to make a certain amount of money per month and
that's just hidden under this little sticky here but then I am also looking
to run three to four boot camps this year so not only do I create websites
for authors but I'm also running boot camps that teach authors to create them
themselves if that's what they'd like to do and I ran my last one recently and it
was so much fun and really helpful and I'm excited to do a whole video to show
you the websites that were created during that boot camp but that is a goal
for myself I also want to create about two sites a month for authors and then
I'm thinking also about starting a patreon I've actually had a
few people ask me if I have one and so I've been thinking about it doing some
research and I would love to know from you guys would that be something that
you'd be interested in if I opened one up and if I did do one what kind of
things would you guys like to see on that page for anyone who exclusively
signs up to be my patron the next section is YouTube maybe you do and some
of my goals for YouTube are ones that I really have no control over but I did
list them sort of as aspirations and then I listed some ways that I wanted to
get there so I would love to get to a thousand followers by February March
kind of area and actually I'm like at 860 something right now so you guys have
been an awesome if you're new to my channel thank you so much for
subscribing recently and helping me get to 1,000 followers and my goal to sort
of up this is to do keep doing at least one video a week and also live streams
can help to boost your YouTube channel as well and sort of watch time and
different things like that so I am looking to do a secret project that will
include live streams with Bethany aunt asada and we're super excited about this
you guys I can't tell you the details yet but it's coming
I swear then I would really love to get to a point where I can monetize my
channel and I'm hoping by the end of the summer and I would need four thousand
hours of watch time by that point in order to monetize so again with live
streams one video a week all that kind of stuff that is what I'm looking to do
and then for community and events and if you guys knew me at all
community and right early community is like super important to me and I just
facilitate that sort of running challenges and running different events
and also networking by going to different events so I want to sort of
rebrand the plaughter life writers group and do some new events this year and
sort of organize that a little bit we have a bunch of topics on there the face
book actually has a way that you can organize those topics sort of like you
know one of those like old message boards anybody was online at that point
when that message boards was really big I loved those but you can sort of
function your Facebook group like that so I'm going to or
all of our topics we have topics about other brands about plotting about all
kinds of things so if you're not hooked into our plot relief writers Facebook
group you definitely want to check that out because we're going to be doing a
lot of new and fun things this year and then I also want to attend book con
which I said in my last video so if you're going to book on let me know I
would love to meet up and I would love to actually get a plotter life or
writers sort of meetup going at booked on as well and then I am also looking to
go to the Wanderers writers retreat which is hosted by just the Elliot in
August so I'm super excited about that so a lot of cool things to look forward
to this year for 2019 these are my major goals I obviously have more specific
goals and different things that will come up with my bimonthly goals which
I'm going to start sharing in next week's video it's gonna be a whole month
of goals videos you guys I hope that's okay
I hope this motivates you and inspires you as you are working on it your goals
this year and we will see what happens if I get all of these done by this time
next year so I will definitely do it that video then anyway guys that's all I
have for you today but if you enjoy this video I would love if you support my
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see more bullet journal and read early videos like this one and until next week
guys happy writing