Back in January I published my writing goals for the year 2013. I posted them here so I could hold myself publicly accountable. Since we are nearing the fifth month of the year, its a great time to revisit the list and see what progress I’ve made. It is also good timing because I’ve recently joined the Rome Construction Crew, and most of my goals involve writing.
- Publish The Storm and the Darkness (Book 2 in the House of Crimson & Clover series)–Started the first round of final edits. Will be sent to beta readers by end of May/early June.
- Publish to this blog often (weekly at a minimum), including finishing my Travel Series for all travels thus far–Success so far! I publish daily right now, and will probably move to a minimum 2-3 times/week.
- Participate in and complete Camp NaNoWriMo in April & July–Completed April (5 days early!), and I am already preparing for July.
- Participate in and complete NaNoWriMo in November–Still planning to do so.
- Start editing the as yet untitled Book 3 in the House of Crimson & Clover series—This is probably a Q3 goal. Won’t start the edits until Book 2 is published. It does finally have a name though: The Illusions of Eventide.
- Start speccing out my fantasy world for the fantasy series I want to write–Ehhhh…okay I’ve done nothing with this so far. This one might have been a little ambitious, given all the work I need to do on my series.
- Launch the House of Crimson & Closer Newsletter and keep it alive– I’ve created the template but won’t start distribution until The Storm and the Darkness nears publication.
- Publish St. Charles at Dusk in more places, and make it more accessible–Done! It is now available on ALL major mediums, including Amazon, BN, Itunes, Sony, and Smashwords.
- Learn more about marketing my work, and apply several new techniques–Expanded my social media presence by joining Twitter and Pinterest. Going to look at doing giveaways and other events once I get ready for The Storm and the Darkness to be published.
- Come out of my shell a bit and become a more active member of the indie writing community- Definitely on the right track! I’ve met a lot of really awesome people through blogging, and I’m enjoying the social aspects of this a lot more than I imagined.
This is a big deal for me, being on track to hit most of my goals. I’ve spent so many years putting my writing in the backseat, and I’m not going to do it anymore. If I want to be a writer, I must write, I must network, I must market, and I must, most of all, make time for it.
It looks like you’ve made a lot of progress. Congrats!
Thanks! The funny thing is, I didn’t really go back and look at this list after I created it. So that tells me that I’m at least synched up with myself, which is a positive.
Definitely. It’s bad when you make progress on goals that you never created in the first place. Though, I think that’s a sign of ADD.
Congratulations on making progress. It just so happens that YOU are one of those great people I have been lucky to meet while blogging.
You were exactly one of the people I had in mind when I wrote that 🙂 If I had known that I would make some fantastic friends, I would have started blogging a lot sooner!
I feel special now, thank you:)
Just returning the favor 🙂
Congratz on the progress! You’ve been working hard! I’m intrigued by your fantasy world building, what type of things were you thinking of? (I love making fantasy worlds, lol).
I’ve always been a big fan of epic fantasy and an even bigger fan of the Tolkienverse. I love the idea of being able to create a completely fictional world, with fictional races, georgraphies, customs, etc…though I am no linguist so I doubt I could create any languages. I drew a rough map of Terra Regna, my fantasy world, and sketched out some of the races but in hindsight the whole thing looked REALLY ridiculous hah. So I was going to scrap it and start something new.
Great post, you are doing so well!
Thanks Rosie!
Congratulations! It looks like you are right on target…impressive! I’m so glad that you’ve joined the RCC! Let us know what we can do to support you! We are in your corner rooting you on! 🙂 Hey, is there a way to become one of the “beta” readers for you book?
Thank you Kira!! Very happy to be a member of RCC…I’ve never met a group of kinder, more supportive people anywhere 🙂
And if you are serious about being a beta reader, I’d love to have you! Just drop me a quick email to scradit@gmail.com and I’ll add you to the list.
I am serious. I just emailed you 🙂 I’m so excited!
Very cool! Thanks for offering!
What a list! I’m impressed and in awe. I’m off to write…..
Thank you! Good luck with your writing 🙂