This year just flew by. I don’t even know what happened to it. It felt as if I were making no progess anywhere, but I did accomplish a few key things. I also had to adjust my goals to accomodate Alpha Female, which wasn’t planned. All in all, this was a pretty productive year.
What I accomplished:
~I finished the 3rd draft of Pirouette in May and am gearing up for the final revision (which is my #1 goal for 2011)
~I started the Flamebound revision using HTRYN. Got to lesson 8 of 22. Yeah, that was one of the things that got adjusted.
~I wrote and rewrote and completed Alpha Female. My original goal was to submit it to an anthology by the November 1st deadline. After getting it back from a wonderful beta, I realized that it wasn’t going to work for the antho. I decided to expand it, as most of the issues were due to trying to keep the wordcount within the limits (25k) and then decided to try to finish it up by the end of the year. Which I pretty much did, if you don’t count the tweaks I’m currently working on.
~I started Broken and got it up to 12k. Broken was a personal challenge to myself, as it’s got a bit of BDSM in it and I’d never written that before. It’s also a different genre for me. I am very pleased with how it’s going.
~I critiqued 3 novels for writer friends. While this isn’t a huge thing, I made my deadlines for the most part and got the honor of reading some really good books.
~I joined up with a few writer friends and started Turtleduck Press, which is our publishing endeavor which will hopefully change the world, muhaaaa.
~I self-pubbed Life as a Moving Target through them, which has been a dream of mine since December 2002 when I wrote the very first poem in that collection. After trying traditional publishing, I decided to go ahead and self-publish it. I’ve gotten some great feedback so far. And it’s so dear to my heart.
~I wrote approximately 100k this year. Not bad considering I did mostly revising and editing. Some writing, too. I’m glad to have hit 100k. It certainly didn’t feel like 100k.
~I wrote and rewrote my query letter for Pirouette. I think I have it nailed. We’ll see.
So, yep, not a bad year at all.
Goals for 2011:
~SUBMIT something. This is HUGE. This year was supposed to be the year for that, but I got a bit derailed. I will submit something if it kills me. Most likely either Alpha Female or Pirouette.
~Finish up Alpha Female and get it critted
~Do the final revision on Pirouette and get it to critters.
~Submit something!
~Continue Flamebound revision, hopefully finish (I see a rewrite in my future…)
~Finish Without Wings, my second poetry chapbook with Turtleduck Press, and get it to approvals by Feb. 1st. This is a biggie because it still needs some work and time is ticking.
~Write (hopefully) Darkweaver.
~Work on Don’t Close Your Eyes, chapbook #3.
~Do not get derailed this time. Stay to the goals.
~Get an agent
Will I accomplish all of that? Perhaps. But I will try for sure. It feels like 2011 will be a good year.
Weaver of Words 