What Is Your 2017 Writing Resolution?

Finish Book #2 of series. Make another pass at Book #1 of series. Query agents for series. Find another publisher for my first 3 books, since my publisher closed this year. If I can't find another publisher for my books, figure out how to put e-book versions on Amazon myself.

Maybe also get my ass in gear and submit the half-dozen or so short stories I've written over the past couple years.

I'm tired already.

To get writing again... :-/

jjdebenedictis said:

To get writing again... :-/

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+1

(I say, simply using a quote and a "+1" instead of actually writing my own danged resolution, which bodes ever so well for my follow-through... )

Finish the bleepin' thing.

I've given myself four months to write about 60K words which is very doable as long as I'm not slogging through muddy parts where I don't know what the hell is going on and where the hell the goings on should be. There will undoubtedly be some slogging, though, so we'll see.

After that, two months to make everything cohesive and pretty. Then I start school and may not have time for anything else.

Finish the first draft of the novel I'm working on within the next three months.

Write a few short stories.

Regularly submit short stories I've written, regardless of the number of rejections I receive.

Start the next novel.

~Finish the NaNo novel, take one revision pass, get to betas by mid-February, hopefully query polished novel by fall.
~Sub stories--flash/short/novelettes/novellas

I am setting myself a Rejections Goal to make sure I'm subbing for real, not just one place per story. I haven't worked out the number yet, though. Somewhere between 50-100.

jjdebenedictis said:

To get writing again... :-/

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Ditto McDittersons. For serious.

jjdebenedictis said:

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Yup, me too.

With the addition of submitting something somewhere.

Get this book finished (I'm about half way through). And submit it to agents.

And, most importantly, resist getting so excited about a new idea I've just had that I abandon this book to write that one. *massive eye roll emoji*

I hope to start reading again, even a little. I've been very remiss with reading.

I also aim to publish a novel about homunculuses for the purposes of raising a little more money to donate to various environmental, civil rights and medical aid orgs, etc... or, at least, set myself up to do so.

Best of luck to all getting back to writing or finishing the heck out of projects. You can do the things. <3

Mine is to finish and get published the last part of The Water Road trilogy, then figure out my next project.

To finish the rewrite of Brave Girls and get it on submission before the 2017 Unhanged Arthur list comes out. Also to continue to write for at least 30 mins every day. (It doesn't sound like much, but it adds up!)

I have two resolutions:

1.) To be able to recognize a viable premise and develop it into a workable concept.
2.) To translate my knowledge of what, why, and how into the ability to do.

to keep writing

1. Finish a complete, workable draft of my current WIP. I'm getting there!

2. Finish a novella I've been writing on the side. It's just a bit of fluff, but it's fun.

3. Be more active in my local writing community.

4. Read more in my genre.

Here's the basic list. I go into more detail on my blog.

1. Release Finding Angie
2. Finish Sad Girl Book 3
3. Two short stories
4. 70 blog posts
5. Host 5 guests, and write 5 guest posts
6. Up my fiction, blog, and total word counts by 25%
7. Enter one contest this year
8. Attend a writing conference this year
9. Schedule three author events

I also want to read a lot more than I did in 2016. I didn't keep track of what I read last year though, so I don't know what "a lot more" is.

Have my ms beta-read, then get back on the horse after crying/wailing after beta-readers rip it to shreds.

See those titles down there in my sig line? My resolution is to actually, you know, work on them for a change.

Finish my novel. I just made it past 40,000 words which is a big deal to me. I am helped along by my confidence that I can make mistakes and fix them later.

Finish my novel Lake One, but that was my goal last year and it didn't happen so I don't know.

Nothing. I haven't made a resolution in three decades. I haven't broken a resolution in thirty years.

Jeff

To finish book 1 of my new scifi/horror series and hopefully find someone here who would like to beta swap.

Not an explicit resolution, but this year I'd like to shoot for at least one personalized rejection letter.

Two things...

1.)

Have at least 5 people (other than those who have already read/started) read Do No Harm, which is the story I first got serious about publishing. I've been writing for 14 years without taking a break/block for longer than 4 months, and that only being a couple times. But it's in the last 3 years I really was honest with myself and let myself entertain the idea that I was decent enough to (someday) get published. I started Do No Harm under a different title in September 2014. The title might well change again, but that's not the point. The point is that one day, it'll be what I cite when I say... "This is how it started."

2.)

Collect 15 rejections (in other words, send out at least 15 queries where I get some kind of response, whether personalized or not)

OR

Get 2-3 requests for a partial, or 1-2 requests for a full manuscript.

At this time last year, my goal was to write another 100,000 words, and to move. I did both, and for all the things I'm not happy with right now, I am at least happy with my writing progress, and with living where I wanted to live.