Author Bob Hostetler

You’d think, after 2020, we’d all have learned not to make predictions, right? Right? Of course, right.

But I learn more slowly than most. So I thought I’d put forth a few predictions for your coming year, if you’re a writer. If you’re not a writer, most of these won’t apply to you. But if you are, I think I can confidently offer these twenty-five predictions:

1. You will have bad writing days.
2. You will have good writing days.
3. You will write a terrible first draft.
4. You will doubt your skills.
5. You will write something beautiful.
6. You will write something horrible.
7. Your second draft will be an improvement.
8. You will start over. Probably many times.
9. You will be inspired.
10. You will try something new.
11. You will learn.
12. You will lose your focus.
13. You will recover your focus.
14. You will feel uninspired.
15. You will get better.
16. You will laugh.
17. You will cry.
18. You will get a new idea.
19. You will experience a breakthrough.
20. You will write.
21. You will rewrite.
22. You will rewrite some more.
23. You will feel like quitting.
24. You will feel like dying.
25. You will survive.