Jan 082020
It’s a new year, and that means it’s time for a new list of writing goals!
By 2021, I will:
- Send out regular batches of queries for the novels I have in the querying stage.
- Complete my current pulp fiction story and write at least one more pulp fiction story.
- Revise On An Island of Oaks and send it to a beta reader.
- Edit The Sunken Sapphire.
- Write at least 3 more short stories.
- Update my two side websites on at least a monthly basis.
- Participate in an additional book signing/event.
Of these, the third goal is the one I really hope to make progress on. On An Island of Oaks was my NaNoWriMo novel this past November, and I have high hopes for it once it’s revised. However, it needs major structural changes, so it might be quite a project.
I’ll also write a new novel draft during NaNoWriMo, but since I do that almost every year, I didn’t think it should be included on my list of goals.
Do you have any writing goals for 2020? What are they? Let me know in the comments!
My goals are to finish the 1st draft of this past year’s NaNo novel, and to get to a third draft of a story that I received beta reader comments back for from a very patient friend so that I can send it out for further feedback. Beyond that, I am trying to not be too ambitious and get burnt out, but I do want to keep to a habit of at least a little writing every day.
Sounds like a good plan. 🙂
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