layla | 2013 creative goals

It’s interesting to look back on my last few years of creative roundup posts. I’ve been doing them since 2006, and sometimes I feel psyched about the progress I’ve made, while other times I feel like I really should have gone much farther, much faster than I’ve managed to do.

But I also feel a little more confident every year, I think. This year I wrote ~250,000 words of original fiction; sadly a good deal of that was, as usual, on unfinished projects, but I’ve written more every year since I started recording my daily writing counts (in 2009).

And I really want to kick my butt in gear in 2013, and get things finished, and get them published. For a while I scaled back my goals because I never seemed to finish any of them, and it was disheartening. This year, though, I’m aiming high.

2013 creative goals:

- Match or beat my 2013 word count (255,700 wds)
- Submit the urban fantasy novel to agents
- Finish the urban fantasy sequel (book 2) and outline book 3
- Write another novel (as me)
- Write another novel/novella as my romance alias
- Sell a short story to a pro market
- Sell more romance fiction
- Get the Hunter’s Moon book out
- Continue pursuing watercolor cards as a business venture

… I think that about covers things.

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