So, it seems appropriate for the last day of the year to look back at my goals and see where I got. Mostly, I've decided not to have goals anymore because goals are a big freaking pain. At some point, I added submit one short story per month, but it's not showing up on here... huh.
Here are my goals from this year (I made them in March, so that's how I could cheat and add the agent thing) :
Writing Plans for 2011:
January:
Finish Honor 7. (Completed)
Revise Secrets of Skin and Stone. (Completed)
Submit short stories. (Completed--both stories were accepted in the anthologies I submitted them to. Mystery Times Ten 2011 and Undead is Not an Option.)
February:
Get agent. (Wooo wahoo!) (Yay)
March:
Do revisions of Secrets of Skin and Stone. (Completed a set of revisions)
Work on short story project. (I probably did.)
April:
Finish Sentinel's Run. (At some point during the year I finished Sentinel's Run.)
May:
Revision of Curse Me A Story for Sarah. (I did... but it's not quite done.)
"Six month" scheduled revision of Versus the Bounty and The Unseen Kingdom. (Nope.)
June:
Finish My Other Life. (Nope.) (I wrote Promises of Light and Dark instead.)
July:
Finish Chosen Changeling. (Nope.)
August:
Revise Honor Series. (Crap. No.)
September:
Work on short stories or Honor 8. (Short stories... done.)
October:
Revise Scorched. (Crap. No.)
Revise Good Girls Don't Date Mutants. (I started a revision on Mutants but I haven't completed it.)
November:
NaNoWriMo novel (Completed 50K. I did five novellas instead of a novel.)
December:
Revise Sentinel's Run and begin Sentinel's Run Book Two. (Uhh. No. I did manage to submit 11 short stories during 2011.)
I'm still working on a revision of Secrets of Skin and Stone... well, I'm waiting on Sarah with that. I've revised it three or four or five times this year.
Per my earlier announcement I did get a short story picked up by Entangled Publishing.
I did actually finish writing my entry for Mystery Times Ten for 2012, but I need to do another revision on it. I could have probably powered through it and subbed it tonight, but I like eleven better than twelve anyway, so there wasn't a lot of incentive.
I fell behind in some ways this year and made some progress in others. I read around 89 books, did five betas, and I did quite a few requested revisions for editors and for Sarah.
Outside of writing, I lost fifty lbs this year--so that's pretty cool.
Then, there were parenting struggles and sickness and injury. It hasn't been all fun and games.
Next year... okay, I do have some goals.
Goals for 2012
I want to do more reviewing. I'm hoping to review all my favorite books on Amazon--just my favorite books--and just on Amazon.
I want to lose the last fifteen lbs. to my goal.
I want to finish revising Secrets of Skin and Stone for the last time with Sarah.
I intend to submit to Mystery Times Ten Contest by its deadline of January 31st.
I have some short stories to revise for editors, and I'll do that.
My only specific writing goals are that I want to revise and resubmit Honor. I want to finish my revision of Mutants. Also, I want to do NaNoWriMo again this year. That's about it.
In social media goals, I want to work a little harder on keeping up on my blog and creating an author website. It's been a tough year, and I keep feeling like I'm dropping behind--in fact, I need to write a few blog posts and retro-post them in regards to Christmas and the nativity display. (I did take a bunch of pictures, and I'll post them--soon.) I can't seem to keep up. B got the stomach flu for Christmas and my son had it before her. It's been... fun.
Anyway, that's it. I hope everyone is having a good New Year's Eve. See you next year. ; )
