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Today I wanted to talk to you about your goals.
You do have goals, right? You may have them, but have never pinned them to the wall.

So stop right now, close your eyes and ask yourself what your writing/writer goals are.
I will wait.

<waiting>

<surfing the internet>

<mad dash to the restroom>

Okay. Did you do it? Good.

So, do you want to be a NY Times Bestseller? Do you want to just get your books into the hands of all those people out there you know will love them?

Please don’t come back with the worn out “I have to write. I can’t not write.”
That’s not a goal. That’s a declarative statement. Ask yourself why you write and what you want out of it. Sitting in front of a computer for hours and hours and hours typing away is not a normal activity, and if you’re not doing it for some purpose, you might want to Bing some mental help.

Yeah, writing can be, and is, therapeutic and cathartic but let’s not focus on that. Focus on your goals.

Now that you have them firmly planted in your mind, let’s ask, “How does a conference help me achieve my goals?”

A few things you’re going to get at a conference regardless of any sessions or classes you attend: face time with publishing professionals, face time with other writers at different levels than you, and fun. (Well you should have fun at a conference. If for some reason you don’t have some fun at our conference this year, by all means, come and talk to me.)

At our conference we try to cover a broad swath of topics for writers at all levels and stages.

We try to have some topics for those who want to be a bestseller, those who just want to write a book for their friends, those who are thinking of writing a non-fiction book about healthcare in America, and all the others.

But the question is, do we have what you in particular need?

This month we’ll be working on our education tracts for the conference. We’re breaking our items down into categories and sub-categories. It’s a lot of work, takes a lot of time, and there are usually quite a few disagreements and arguments during the process. Productive discussions, but we all are passionate about bringing the value to our attendees.

My recommendation to you is, once we get our education lined up and posted, and you’ve set your goals, peruse our offerings and see how many are beneficial to you.

You’ll find we have a lot of items that can help you achieve your goals.

 ~Jason

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Agents Louise Fury, Dawn Frederick and Adam Friedstein, all of whom were special guests at our 2011 conference, have written back to tell us what they thought.

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