Creative Year in Review: 2014

It’s that time of year again – my annual year-in-review and accountability post. I’ve been doing them since 2006; here’s the LJ tag and the DW tag.

First of all, here’s what I accomplished creatively in 2014:

• Restarted Kismet!  (FINALLY! Of everything I’ve done lately, this is what I’m the most proud of.)
• My short story “Stormrider” appeared in the SF anthology Fierce Family from Crossed Genres.
• I had a story from last year, “The Bride in Furs”, reprinted in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction.
• Published Held For Ransom (romance novel) through Dreamspinner Press.
• Short story, “Timethieves”, in the benefit anthology Project Fierce Chicago.

I also signed up for Patreon (hope to do a lot more with that in 2015) and taught comics-making at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival for the second year.

Under the cut, how I did with last year’s creative goals:

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2015 Creative Goals

Here’s what I plan to do in 2015:

• Make a writing schedule/marketing plan and stick to it
• Write two new novels
• Finish editing the 2 steampunk ones I wrote this year and submit to Dreamspinner Press (which has right of first refusal); self-publish if refused
• Edit both the novels in my urban fantasy series & start making progress toward whatever I want to do with them (submit to agents if going that route; start prepping for self-publishing if that)
• Revise my first novel — an ancient, probably unpublishable YA fantasy called Wishmaker — and put it online for free.
• Update Kismet every week, and finish the year with a page buffer
• Publish the Hunter’s Moon book via Kickstarter

The first item on the list sounds more formal than it is, and mostly has to do with something I’ve been struggling with for the last few years, namely organizing my time more efficiently. I’ve never successfully managed to stick to a regular writing/drawing schedule, but maybe this will be the year I’ll do it.

Alarmingly (given the scope of the above list), I have a considerably longer private list of Stuff I’m Gonna (try to) Edit/Write/Do in 2015, but I decided it’d be best to keep the public-accountability list to the highest priority items. Especially given my abysmal track record of finishing my lists. This list already amounts to “edit five novels and write two”, plus at least 52 pages of Kismet, which is huge compared to anything I’ve managed to accomplish in past years. Some years I aim pretty low; apparently this is one of those years I’m aiming high. Wish me luck?

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