Dreaming Big for 2025? Here’s How to Turn Your Writing Goals into Reality

As we close out another year, it’s time to reflect, reset, and recharge your author goals. This week, we’re bringing you three articles packed with inspiration and practical advice to help you make 2025 your best writing year yet.

First, Gill Fernley guides you through creating a five-year business plan tailored to your author career. Whether you’re just starting out or ready to scale to the next level, this roadmap will help you set actionable goals and stay focused on the bigger picture.

Next, Maureen Bonatch shifts the spotlight to wellness with resolutions every indie author can set for a healthier, more balanced writing life. From managing screen time to celebrating small wins, her tips will help you nurture your creativity and well-being.

Finally, Honoree Corder dives into the prosperity mindset, showing you how to outline a successful, sustainable career as a writer. Her actionable steps and motivational insights will inspire you to embrace the abundance your writing can create.

Get ready to plan, prosper, and prioritize your health—because 2025 is waiting for you to make it extraordinary!

Create a Five-Year Business Plan for Authors

Planning Your Author Career: A Strategy for the Next Five Years It’s almost the end of another year and time once more for setting intentions for the future. But don’t reach for a soapbox about New Year’s resolutions or dust off your schemes for world domination just

Indie Author MagazineGill Fernley

Healthy Writing: New Year’s Resolutions for Indie Authors

Not everyone makes a New Year’s resolution, but the people who do usually focus on health and wellness. Last year, 23 percent of Americans aimed to live healthier in the new year, making it the most popular resolution in 2022, according to Statista. As an indie author, it’s great

Indie Author MagazineMaureen Bonatch

Prosperity Mindset: Outlining Success for Indie Authors

I discovered the beauty of knowing other writers at the Colonists Summit back in 2014. At that conference, two dozen writers came together to talk all things writing and publishing. I was in heaven. Although I knew about the concept of starving artists, and therefore writers, I’d worked on

Indie Author MagazineHonoree Corder