Writing Goals?

[laurenbarnholdt.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering what everyone's writing goals are -- not for nanowrimo (because that's obvious ;) ), but in general.

Are you writing a book with the goal of getting it published? Or are you just going to write it and take it from there? Is this the first book you've written? Have you ever tried to get anything published before?

It took me four years, two books, three agents, and a lot of crying over rejection letters before my book sold (if you're interested in reading the whole story, it's on my website at www.laurenbarnholdt.com under "for writers"), so I'm always really interested in other people's journeys!

~Lauren