In my last Reboot post I mentioned how I'd had no plan and no goals for my writing career other than to be a New York Times Bestseller. Well, this year I'm changing that. I read somewhere— in some self-help book or another— that people who write down their goals are...

Man, this gig is hard. All those years I spent dreaming of writing full-time, I had no idea just how hard it is. When I sold my first book, I plunged in head-first without a plan and without any particular goals. I just wrote and sold some books and made money. I do...