Setting writing goals? Make them SMART—and flexible!

It wouldn’t be January if there wasn’t a surfeit of books, articles and blog posts about goals.

Figuring out what your goals are—or should be
Figuring out how you’re going to achieve them
Figuring out how you’re going to handle all distractions, disturbances and disasters that seek to undermine your plans and deflect you from your strategy

And I’ll confess that I’m right up there with the rest of them. I religiously set goals every January 1, and talk about goal-setting at the January meeting of...