Goals Are Often Personal

When I’m working
on a second draft
of a story,
I have a goal
– to add 500 words per chapter.

This goal might sound silly.
A story should be as long
as it needs to be.

Maybe the chapter
doesn’t need
500 more words.

Maybe another writer’s chapter
doesn’t need this.
MY chapter does.

I write lean
(this is an outcome
of having been a journalist
early
in my life).

I write TOO lean
for most readers.

So I force myself
to write fluffier
by setting myself
a goal
of writing 500 words more
per chapter
than I originally wrote.

Goals are often personal.

If your goals
work for YOU,
ignore other people’s responses
to it.