Your 2017 Accomplishments
Posted by David Duhr in 
Last week, at the very end of 2017, we asked you to look ahead and share with us your literary goals for 2018.
(If you haven’t done so yet, you should! We’ll be checking back on these throughout the year.)
But sometimes it feels, what with all of these “tell us your goals” posts we publish, that we don’t take enough time to acknowledge our accomplishments; to point to the goal we set weeks, months or years ago and say, “I did it. I hit that goal.”
So now that we know your literary goals for 2018, we want to know: What did you accomplish in 2017?
(If you’re very brave, peek at last year’s “I Will” post and see what your goals were. Did you hit ’em?)
Maybe you improved as a writer in 2017? Share with us how you did it!
Maybe you started and/or finished a book? Tell us about it!
Maybe you published a book, or published something else you’re proud of? Show us a link!
Leave your 2017 accomplishments in the comments below. Don’t be shy about it. It’s not like you’re barging in here and crowing: I’m asking you to do this! Besides…
It’s not bragging if it’s true.
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WriteByNight co-founder David Duhr is copy editor and fiction editor at the Texas Observer and has written about books for the Dallas Morning News, Electric Literature, Publishing Perspectives, and others.
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Sounds like it was a busy year, Barbara. I’d expect nothing less from you. And thanks for all the good advice, too! We enjoyed interacting with you in this space throughout the year, and are looking forward to more in 2018!
This past year was very good to me as far as my writing goes. I had several pieces published in literary journals, including a few poems and I never thought of myself as a poet! But the one piece I’m the most proud of is this one that was published in Six Hens. http://sixhens.com/issues/8/the_knife.php
That’s excellent, Deborah. Thanks for sharing. The repetition at the end is super; nice effect.
Here’s to more good stuff in 2018. Including, perhaps, some more surprise poetry!
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I expect so too, my friend. Thanks for joining us in 2017. Now let me get back to work! Ko’Ach is waiting.