Jessica: On the coast of Maine, grateful for central heating!
Recently, I had the good fortune to enjoy a chat with my friend and colleague, Julia Spencer-Fleming. In part 1 of our conversation, we talked about goals, if we like them, and how we apply them to our novels. I hope you will have as much fun watching or listening to the conversation as we did in having it!
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Jessie Crockett wears a lot of hats, both literally and literarily. As Jessie Crockett she is the Daphne Award winning author of Live Free or Die and the nationally bestselling Sugar Grove series. As Jessica Ellicott she has received starred reivews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal for her historical mystery Murder in an English Village. As Jessica Estevao she writes the Agatha Award nominated Change of Fortune Mysteries. She loves the beach, fountain pens, Mini Coopers and throwing parties. She lives in northern New England where she obsessively knits wool socks and enthusiastically speaks Portuguese with a shocking disregard for the rules of grammar.
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Thank you for this first part of the interview with Julia! Enjoyed listening to some of the goal setting in writing a book. It was funny about the touching the head aspect at the end.
While I was younger, I seem to make bigger goals that took a long time to achieve (like being able to retire and then later to be able to travel to places on our bucket list) whereas now goals are more of a short time things. Now I’m more of what do we want to do “this” year. It’s more of what do we want to do around or to the house, who would we love to go visit, and are there any more places we want to visit of a ways (because each year we get old the less I desire to travel far off it seems). One of my goals this year is to get as healthy as I can. Part of that is losing weight. I’ve learned from experience not to think of how much, but rather can I get 2 pounds off. 🙂 Another part is to strengthen if possible the muscles that give the most trouble. Slowly and surely I’ll work on these and others to get me to my goal – or as much as I’m going to be able to. The rest I will be happy to release to my higher power.
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This is fun, J and J. Thanks for sharing it. I don’t think I’ve ever been someone who sets long-term goals. I’m like Liz above–I check small things off my list each day. I plan and organize my life, but only bit by bit.
Well, since I am retired and have been since 2009 and Hubby Dearest since 2003, we take it one day at a time. Getting up each day is a miracle. So, no fixed plans. I think that I need to do this or do that and then I just do whatever. Someday, it will all get done or it won’t. But we are just enjoying being on God’s Green Earth still and doing what we want after so many years of working hard and doing what others told us to do. So many things, so little time. Reading and jigsaw puzzling and watching TV and being with my dog and hubby take up my time. The organizing and cleaning will get done or not.
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Nice interview, ladies!
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I look forward to watching this later today! I have to achieve my first draft daily goal of 1500 words before I can do anything else…
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I have a list of things that must get done, but I don’t think that’s the same as having goals.
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Thank you for this first part of the interview with Julia! Enjoyed listening to some of the goal setting in writing a book. It was funny about the touching the head aspect at the end.
While I was younger, I seem to make bigger goals that took a long time to achieve (like being able to retire and then later to be able to travel to places on our bucket list) whereas now goals are more of a short time things. Now I’m more of what do we want to do “this” year. It’s more of what do we want to do around or to the house, who would we love to go visit, and are there any more places we want to visit of a ways (because each year we get old the less I desire to travel far off it seems). One of my goals this year is to get as healthy as I can. Part of that is losing weight. I’ve learned from experience not to think of how much, but rather can I get 2 pounds off. 🙂 Another part is to strengthen if possible the muscles that give the most trouble. Slowly and surely I’ll work on these and others to get me to my goal – or as much as I’m going to be able to. The rest I will be happy to release to my higher power.
2cowns at arkansas dot net
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This is fun, J and J. Thanks for sharing it. I don’t think I’ve ever been someone who sets long-term goals. I’m like Liz above–I check small things off my list each day. I plan and organize my life, but only bit by bit.
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Well, since I am retired and have been since 2009 and Hubby Dearest since 2003, we take it one day at a time. Getting up each day is a miracle. So, no fixed plans. I think that I need to do this or do that and then I just do whatever. Someday, it will all get done or it won’t. But we are just enjoying being on God’s Green Earth still and doing what we want after so many years of working hard and doing what others told us to do. So many things, so little time. Reading and jigsaw puzzling and watching TV and being with my dog and hubby take up my time. The organizing and cleaning will get done or not.
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