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Year-end creative roundup: 2010
Um ... hi. *blows dust off journal* I haven't forgotten about this thing, I swear! And to prove it, here's my year-end roundup and goals for 2011. (Previous years' roundups and goals can be found at the year-end roundup tag). As usual, I'll first check in with last year's goals, and see how I did.
My creative goals for 2010 were:
Finish new Freebird strips and get book to publisher.
CHECK! The book is now in the publisher's hands.
Write 1000 words of fiction per day (or, 1 finished comics page per 2 days)
Um ... some of the time? I put a little check mark on my calendar for every week I met my goal, and I have 24 check marks. So I'm hitting my goals about every other week, which isn't bad, especially since I tend to go pretty far over the mark on the weeks when I don't write. Basically I either write my ass off or don't write at all. Next year's goals will take that into account. *g*
Continue writing specifically targeted* short stories and attempting to sell them.
*That is - stories targeted for specific magazines or anthologies, rather than just writing a general story and then trying to find someplace it fits. Seems to work better for me, since I'm not much of a short story writer in general.
Mmmm ... sorta. My short story writing/submitting was fairly intense early this year -- I was taking a creative-writing class at UAF, and used it as a catalyst for writing a LOT -- but really tapered off towards the end of the year. (In fact, it looks like the last story I submitted was in July. I sold a short-short story to EMG-zine, but that's my only sale for the year.)
Make (at least) 1 sale to an SFWA qualifying market. Or at least TRY, by submitting to these markets every chance I get.
Nope.
Finish the rough draft of 1 novel. (I'd like to end the year with a novel sitting, completed, on my desktop.)
CHECK! One YA fantasy novel is sitting happily completed in its folder, awaiting revisions.
Revise "Sea Change", my NaNo novel from 2007.
No.
Work more on Sun-Cutter. Amass backlog of pages and begin updating by end of year.
Er ... I thought about Sun-Cutter a little bit and made a few notes; does that count? FAIL.
Revise my sci-fi novella and write the sequel.
FAIL!
Put together Hunter's Moon book.
No. Kismet has really been on the back burner this year. I still love it, I still think about it; I just haven't been working much on it.
On the other hand, I'm fairly proud of the stuff I did accomplish in 2010:
- Got my bachelor's degree. WIN!
- Wrote 210,300 words of original fiction according to my spreadsheets.
- Finished a novel.
- Got Freebird whipped into shape and off my desk.
Back soon with 2011's goals!
My creative goals for 2010 were:
Finish new Freebird strips and get book to publisher.
CHECK! The book is now in the publisher's hands.
Write 1000 words of fiction per day (or, 1 finished comics page per 2 days)
Um ... some of the time? I put a little check mark on my calendar for every week I met my goal, and I have 24 check marks. So I'm hitting my goals about every other week, which isn't bad, especially since I tend to go pretty far over the mark on the weeks when I don't write. Basically I either write my ass off or don't write at all. Next year's goals will take that into account. *g*
Continue writing specifically targeted* short stories and attempting to sell them.
*That is - stories targeted for specific magazines or anthologies, rather than just writing a general story and then trying to find someplace it fits. Seems to work better for me, since I'm not much of a short story writer in general.
Mmmm ... sorta. My short story writing/submitting was fairly intense early this year -- I was taking a creative-writing class at UAF, and used it as a catalyst for writing a LOT -- but really tapered off towards the end of the year. (In fact, it looks like the last story I submitted was in July. I sold a short-short story to EMG-zine, but that's my only sale for the year.)
Make (at least) 1 sale to an SFWA qualifying market. Or at least TRY, by submitting to these markets every chance I get.
Nope.
Finish the rough draft of 1 novel. (I'd like to end the year with a novel sitting, completed, on my desktop.)
CHECK! One YA fantasy novel is sitting happily completed in its folder, awaiting revisions.
Revise "Sea Change", my NaNo novel from 2007.
No.
Work more on Sun-Cutter. Amass backlog of pages and begin updating by end of year.
Er ... I thought about Sun-Cutter a little bit and made a few notes; does that count? FAIL.
Revise my sci-fi novella and write the sequel.
FAIL!
Put together Hunter's Moon book.
No. Kismet has really been on the back burner this year. I still love it, I still think about it; I just haven't been working much on it.
On the other hand, I'm fairly proud of the stuff I did accomplish in 2010:
- Got my bachelor's degree. WIN!
- Wrote 210,300 words of original fiction according to my spreadsheets.
- Finished a novel.
- Got Freebird whipped into shape and off my desk.
Back soon with 2011's goals!