I did this on my private blog and realized this has been a big year writing-wise for me, so I thought I’d take the more up-beat stuff up here. Also, laced through every single month, is:
- Made some fantastic new blogging friends
- Rediscovered my love for writing
- Rediscovered my love for reading
January
- Finished a novel revision. For the first time in my life I felt justified in saying “this book is done.” and it felt REALLY good.
- Submitted the novel to the Amazon Novel Breakthrough Awards, along with about 10,000 other people
February
- Started Querying
- Did not make it past round 1 of ABNA. But loved seeing the names of so many people I knew on the list
March
- Realized that maybe my novel needed some more tweaking and wasn’t actually done. Stopped querying
April
- Swore I was revising my novel
- Participated in the A to Z blogging challenge and loved all the new people I met
May
- No really, see? I have the document open on my computer
June
- Yeah, okay, I’m not really revising, because I’m working 60 hours a week. But soon…
July
- Decide to write a new, sekrit novel
August
- Going to a writer’s conference. Need to finish those revisions.
September
- At the writer’s conference. I get to pitch to a literary agent, and they want to see pages…YAY! They also want 20k more words than I say I have
- Dive into revisions for real. Need to add 40k more words, because story isn’t ACTUALLY done.
October
- Finish revisions and begin querying again. Love the feeling of accomplishment
- Start plotting novel for November
November
- Finish a novel
- Finish another novel
- Revise my query fifty more times (or four)
- Write a synopsis. Get good feedback from cp’s on it. Am pleasantly surprised.
December
- Decide to stop querying…something isn’t working
- Dive into NaNo revisions.
Rinse. Repeat.
I only have one goal in 2012. Everything else is icing:
To, for the first and only time ever, finish a full, submittable revision of my second ever novel. 2011 has taught me this is what I want. Work pays the bills. Weight loss is up and down. Writing is my psychological salvation. Publishing isn’t even the final goal any more. It’s a goal. It’s still on the radar. But the words…
What’s your biggest goal this year? And welcome to 2012!
That is an awesome way of looking through the year!!! I love your conclusion about words and writing.
My biggest goals are:
1. To say close to the Word of God – live a life of faith.
2. To live fully with my family – lots of hug moments.
3. To polish my novel The Crystal Sword and get it published.
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Hi you – Happy new year – and well done on getting through so much last year- may this one be even more fruitful for you!
My goal is 4 kindle published works this year. Should be an interesting ride
Laura xxx
I loved reading that, particularly the bits about revising. That sounds so like me :). I feel kinda goal-less at the moment, but I think a goal would probably be to finish revisions on my WIP. It’s been hanging around for quite long enough now.
Finish Shift and start interviewing publishers! And a bunch of personal stuff like getting outside with my kiddos every day and to not talk bad about anyone if I can help it.