Resolutions can be tricky—just an exercise in fooling yourself! But they can also be  a dynamic trigger. In this post, I will share a writing resolution that paid off big for me.

If you have not decided on New Year’s resolutions for your writing, it is a good time to choose priorities for the next year.

It is not my competence to speak to you about economic or weight-loss resolutions. But, I do have some track record as a writing coach, and I would like to suggest writing resolutions that might be very productive for you in the coming year as a writer —you are a writer (or an aspiring writer), after all, as evidenced by your reading of this blog.

How this post is organized

First, I will provide you with an example from my own life and then I will move on to offering you a few ideas about how you might structure a writing resolution for the coming year.

2025 for me

In 2025, I had a partially finished manuscript—actually, it might have been 90% finished—but I had put off publishing it. I kept telling myself that there was too much work left and I probably didn’t have enough time to polish the text as I wanted to. When I examined the manuscript, however, I realized how far along it was in being ready, and if I gave it a serious effort, I could publish in 2025.

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