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Year-end creative roundup: 2011
As usual, here's the annual look back at how I did with my past year's creative goals, as seen here. (Past year's posts can be found using the year-end roundup tag.)
Last year, I listed these goals:
January-February: Write the fantasy novel (10,000 words/week). At the end of February, I hope to have a 100,000-word novel in hand.
March: Edit/revise/rewrite one of the two YA novels (whichever looks more intriguing to me at the time)
April: Edit the fantasy novel. [snip]
By the end of 2011 I will have accomplished at least TWO (2) of the following:
- gotten enough Sun-Cutter pages done to be updating regularly again
- have the HM book available for sale
- finished at least one more novel
- revised the other YA novel
- sold at least one short story to a pro or semipro market, and have begun submitting stories regularly to various markets
Let's see how I did!
At the end of February, I hope to have a 100,000-word novel in hand.
Yes! Well, okay, it took me 'til the end of May. And it's not the novel I was supposed to be working on. But still, NOVEL!
The editing stuff turned out to be complicated, so that's grouped under the fourth item below.
- got enough Sun-Cutter pages done to be updating regularly again
Um, no. Though I did actually work on Kismet a bit, so this wasn't a total fail.
- have the HM book available for sale
Nope. Though at this point there's nothing standing in my way but sheer lazy.
- finished at least one more novel
Not exactly. I got about halfway through a second novel, though.
- revised the other YA novel
Well, this one is complicated. In November, I dusted off the rough drafts of everything that I had completed (3 novels plus a novella), started revising, and found that everything except the novel I wrote last summer needs a ground-up rewrite. Which I am not prepared to do at the moment; I'd rather work on new stuff. So, in a way, this one did get accomplished - it's just that rather than actually revising anything, I realized that I was going to have to completely write large portions of EVERYTHING from scratch, and I shelved it again. I'm kinda counting this one in the "plus" column, because I realized, among other things, that I write a whole lot better now than I did just a couple of years ago. On the one hand, it's frustrating because it means that I've grown beyond most of what I've written up to this point, and now I have to rewrite everything. On the other hand, I think I'm getting a whole lot closer to my eventual goal of getting published.
- sold at least one short story to a pro or semipro market, and have begun submitting stories regularly to various markets
No, although I did submit a few stories. "Regular" is not the word I would use for the frequency of such, though.
So 2011 was not entirely a win, but I finished a novel, which is actually good enough that I think I might be able to revise it into something decent without too much additional writing, and I think that's worth a lot.
Back in a minute with my 2012 goals!
Last year, I listed these goals:
January-February: Write the fantasy novel (10,000 words/week). At the end of February, I hope to have a 100,000-word novel in hand.
March: Edit/revise/rewrite one of the two YA novels (whichever looks more intriguing to me at the time)
April: Edit the fantasy novel. [snip]
By the end of 2011 I will have accomplished at least TWO (2) of the following:
- gotten enough Sun-Cutter pages done to be updating regularly again
- have the HM book available for sale
- finished at least one more novel
- revised the other YA novel
- sold at least one short story to a pro or semipro market, and have begun submitting stories regularly to various markets
Let's see how I did!
At the end of February, I hope to have a 100,000-word novel in hand.
Yes! Well, okay, it took me 'til the end of May. And it's not the novel I was supposed to be working on. But still, NOVEL!
The editing stuff turned out to be complicated, so that's grouped under the fourth item below.
- got enough Sun-Cutter pages done to be updating regularly again
Um, no. Though I did actually work on Kismet a bit, so this wasn't a total fail.
- have the HM book available for sale
Nope. Though at this point there's nothing standing in my way but sheer lazy.
- finished at least one more novel
Not exactly. I got about halfway through a second novel, though.
- revised the other YA novel
Well, this one is complicated. In November, I dusted off the rough drafts of everything that I had completed (3 novels plus a novella), started revising, and found that everything except the novel I wrote last summer needs a ground-up rewrite. Which I am not prepared to do at the moment; I'd rather work on new stuff. So, in a way, this one did get accomplished - it's just that rather than actually revising anything, I realized that I was going to have to completely write large portions of EVERYTHING from scratch, and I shelved it again. I'm kinda counting this one in the "plus" column, because I realized, among other things, that I write a whole lot better now than I did just a couple of years ago. On the one hand, it's frustrating because it means that I've grown beyond most of what I've written up to this point, and now I have to rewrite everything. On the other hand, I think I'm getting a whole lot closer to my eventual goal of getting published.
- sold at least one short story to a pro or semipro market, and have begun submitting stories regularly to various markets
No, although I did submit a few stories. "Regular" is not the word I would use for the frequency of such, though.
So 2011 was not entirely a win, but I finished a novel, which is actually good enough that I think I might be able to revise it into something decent without too much additional writing, and I think that's worth a lot.
Back in a minute with my 2012 goals!