Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s unique take on the topic.
This Week’s Topic:
How do you reward yourself when you meet your writing goals?It’s funny. I think back on the writing goals I’ve met – completing a chapter, completing a book, finishing the dreaded synopsis – and each time, it seems like the satisfaction of having completed it was the reward in itself. I might order a mocha, or my husband might take us out to dinner or something, but I guess I just haven’t really given myself a “reward” per se. (But perhaps I should start!)
As for the big goals, the future goals, the dream goals… well, here goes:
1. Top priority when I hit it big ;)… quit my day job. Best reward EVER.
2. A wonderful, amazing, incredible around-the-world trip. I want to see where my good friends Charlotte, Emily, and Anne once lived. Also Jane. And Charles. I want to walk on the moors. I want to go to Italy. And the Holy Lands. And Egypt. I’ve entered lots of contests and such, but alas, it seems that I’ll have to do it the old fashioned way and just become the next Suzanne Collins. 🙂
3. There is a certain person whom I would like to buy a van. And no, it is not me. But that has been on my list for a while.
4. For all other questions, see #1.
I’m all about the satisfaction type goals, too. But the travel is the part that makes me really excited! And your sounds like one of the best kinds of travel: literary inspired!
It’s so frustrating to READ about all these places and never to have BEEN there! It’s a life goal. 🙂
#3 is making me curious! And I’d love to do #1 and #2, too. Great rewards.
I am not much for being successful in the traditional sense, but when you see needs that you wish you could meet and you can’t… well, I think THAT part of being traditionally successful would be great. Just to see a need and meet it. Ya know?
“I’ve entered lots of contests and such, but alas, it seems that I’ll have to do it the old fashioned way and just become the next Suzanne Collins.”
LOVE this! So much simpler than those silly old contests, anyway, right? 😉
Piece of cake! 🙂
I love the idea of an author-inspired vacation. I love seeing where they once lived. I grew up 15 minutes from where Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau lived and I used to love touring their homes. And doing that in England? Sounds amazing!
OOOO, that’s another group of places I want to go! I especially want to take a Thoreau-based tour. *adds to list*
Egypt has always been on my “to visit” list. One day…
We might (MIGHT) get the chance to go this fall… my husband asked how we were going to pay for it, and I said, “I don’t care if we have to live in a box when we get home. We must go.” Crossing my fingers!
Here’s hoping you get to do all 3!
#2 sounds awesome. yay literary rewards!
saw your previous comment about seeing needs and being able to meet them. That would be amazing.
A trip to the moors wouldn’t hurt, either. :0)
A trip to the moors never hurt anything. 🙂
Yesssss being able to write full-time would be the BEST reward ever! 🙂
You are SO RIGHT!
Ah yes – quit the day job – wish I could do that. I’m all for anyone that can. 🙂
Girl, I hear ya. One day…
Great reward ideas! An around-the-world trip would be amazing.
” I want to walk on the moors. ” <– this 100 x yes. BUT only if I can find Mr Rochester and not if a creepy villager who looks like an extra from An American Werewolf in London warns me away.