my rock solid writing goals for...this week?

Last night the fifth Memoir Showcase highlighted members of my writing tribe in San Diego. A sellout crowd for the San Diego Memoir Writers Association production filled the evening performance seats, while the newly implemented early show was nearly at capacity.
 
Sometimes it takes a concrete event like this to remind myself that I am an author. My completed memoir is still in a file on my computer, but two of my pieces have been performed in the Showcase, and two others have been published in the anthology that follows each performance. Oh yes, another piece I wrote years ago saw the light of publishing day in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Empowered Woman in 2018.
 
Still, because I cannot hold a published copy of Peru, My Other Country: A Love Story in my hand, not to mention sell one to you, it is hard for me to own my author’s credentials.
 
To that end, to encourage myself and to connect with you, I am writing this post as a commitment to completion. Here are my goals:
 

• I give myself one week to polish the manuscript currently cowering in that file.
• I will compile a neat new list of agents who represent memoir… a week or so after that, more or less.
• I will refine my query letter to send to those agents…just as soon as I get up the nerve to look at it again. (I may need to work on that one a bit, but just seeing it out there is helpful.)
• And I will really work on curbing my addiction to all the national news channels because whatever is going to happen will still happen even if I’m not watching.

 
What are your writing goals?