My creative goals

Current and ongoing projects

  • Novel: The diary of magnificent thingscurrent
  • Novel: Joint project with mother about ancestors James and Sarah Hagan who arrived Australia 1836 – on hold
  • The sunlit desk blog – ongoing
  • Album of magnificent things (a journal of drawings, pictures, writings etc) – ongoing
  • Family album – joint project with my aunty – not yet started
  • Human diversity project (a photographic album celebrating human diversity) - ongoing (lifetime project)
  • Diversitywriters.net – celebrating and promoting human diversity through storytelling. Website coming soon
  • Travel journal (a photographic journal of my travels) – ongoing

Goals

2009

Lifetime

  1. Start a blog on creative writing
  2. Start a blog on the sense of wonder
  3. Maintain the blogs
  4. Write and publish at least one article
  5. Attend Byron Bay Writer’s Festival
  6. Write the first draft of The diary of magnificent things
  7. Practice the mandolin
  8. Read 40 books by December 09
  9. Learn Photoshop
  10. Start Diversity writers network

  1. Write & publish a short story
  2. Write and publish personal narratives/essays
  3. Write and prepare a novel for submission to publishers
  4. Publish a novel
  5. Learn to play the mandolin
  6. Learn to paint
  7. Improve on photography skills
  8. Make a documentary about traditional dance and music
  9. Family album

7 Responses to “My creative goals”

  1. colleenincairns Says:

    Hi Sharon.
    What a wonderfully comprehensive and thoughtful blog. I wish I had more time this morning to keep reading !
    So glad to have stumbled upon you !

    Colleen

    • Sharon (thesunlitdesk) Says:

      Welcome Colleen and thank you. I’ll take a look at your place today.

  2. lynnpriestley Says:

    Hi Sharon,
    Your blog is fantastic and just what I need to see to help me to get myself organised. You are an inspiration! I will visit often.

    • Sharon (thesunlitdesk) Says:

      Hi Lynn
      thank you for visiting and thanks for your encouragement. Look forward to hearing from you again

  3. Michelle Says:

    I hope you can move #3 and #4 up to #1 on the Lifetime goals. Keep at it. Write write write!

    • Sharon (thesunlitdesk) Says:

      Hi Michelle
      Thank you. I’m working on #3, which will hopefully eventually lead to #4.

  4. kaefka Says:

    My goodness you are well stocked up on things to do!


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