Today I’m posting on the Austin Mystery Writers blog about A Round of Words in 80 Days (ROW80): The Writing Challenge That Knows You Have a Life. I hope you’ll want to read the entire post. To do so, click the link at the bottom of this excerpt.
(If you read the whole thing, you’ll find out what I mean when I say I have the fantods.)
Posted by Kathy Waller
It is a truth universally acknowledged that to accomplish anything of worth, one must first set goals.
English: 85. Functions and Use Scenarios Mapping to Requirements and Goals (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
But goals drive me crazy, and that’s no secret either. Periodically, fellow Austin Mystery Writer Gale Albright pulls out her notebook and says, “All right. Let’s write down our goals.” Her goals, my goals, goals for us as a team. She’s serious about goals.
As soon as she says the magic word, I start a major case of the fantods. I can come up with goals, but when I see them on paper, claustrophobia sets in. I dig in my heels and think, “I will not do [whatever I’ve written that I will do]. And you can’t make me.” Sometimes I don’t just think it–I say it.
I’ve said it to Gale so often that now when she pulls out…
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Kathy Waller 
Good article!
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I hesitate to comment on this article, since I may be pilloried for saying “goal” to you.
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