Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.
As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.