Erin Bartel @ErinLBartels
I have set my writing goals for 2021 the same way I set them for every other year: balancing ambition with reality. Only this year I have a better sense of what reality will be! Now that we’re over the shock and fear and confusion phase of the pandemic and into the part where we can see light at the end of the tunnel, I am moving into this new year with hope and expectation. I want to front-load the year with drafting and revising while events are still virtual, and by fall I want to be back to in-person events. My family had to reschedule a trip to Yellowstone we’d planned for last year. My goal is to have a finished, polished draft of my current work-in-progress before we hop on that plane in June.
It has been slower going with the pandemic to finish the manuscript I have been working on. I had thought when I started writing it at the beginning of 2020 that I’d have the first draft done by the end of the year, but in reality I have only managed to get to the halfway point. So, in that superficial way, it has changed my writing. But in a deeper way, thinking of the topics I’m writing about or my writing style, I don’t think it has affected it at all.
