my intentions for november

I love a good first of anything. I love beginnings. Beginnings are exciting—we don’t know what’s going to happen! Beginnings are also a good time to set intentions.I like to set intentions each month for my writing—what do I want to accomplish? How do I want to feel?This month, I want to finish a new draft of a book I’ve been working on since January. (Hopefully this will be the last new draft I write of it.) I also want to fall in love again. With writing. And with my life.Last week I met someone who told me, “I fall in love at least twelve times a day.” The first thing I thought was: how beautiful. The second thing I thought was: I want to be friends with this person.How do you fall in love twelve times a day? Easy: look around you. Notice something, and look at it deeply. This is something we have to practice as writers and something we have to practice as human beings.So those are my intentions for November.What are yours?