Post by bill on Dec 8, 2016 1:02:17 GMT
You do such a good job of stating your goals. You've inspired me to jot mine down.
Here are my goals for the next few weeks:
1 - Publish Satisfyingly Strange Short Stories, Volume 2 in about a week.
2 - Publish volume 3 in early January
3 - Flipper Flash Fiction: I have thirteen stories written and all but three revised. I want to finish those this week. I have a Christmas story and will run it in the paper the next couple of weeks. Then I want to put several of the stories in the Halstead newspaper over the next several weeks to get my readers interested in the characters. At some point (probably Jan or Feb) I'll publish all the stories as an e-book.
4 - Flipper, book 1: I want to publish late January. It's done. I just need to put in additional pages and wait on cover from Debbie. Then learn how to format in Createspace
5 - I want to publish my Newspaper columns (I have almost 75 written over the last 3 1/2 years) in January. Right now I think I'll put them together in one book so I can do a printed copy and an e-book. I thought about releasing them in bunches of 25, as e-books, then bundling them and add a little extra to it. I just don't know if I gain anything by doing it that way? More books listed out, I guess, but I don't know that I would make any more. A lot of my readers who buy the e-books may not get the additional book.
6 - Most of the work above is done. Right now I am focused on revising. I'm revising my mystery with HTRYN, but I only get one lesson a week. It usually only takes me a couple of days to do the lesson, but then I have to wait until next week to do the next one. Last week I started on Flipper, book 3 and adapting Holly's lessons and my thoughts. I trimmed down her first eight lessons into three and will finish the second tonight. I don't know whether it's better for me to do some rough draft writing and wait until I've been completely through the HTRYN class to do another revision (she promises to show us how to do a one-pass revision, which would be awesome) or juggle two or three revisions at the same time, as I have started to do. I can easily juggle two revisions at the same time. I may be tempted to start a third, I don't know. I guess if I get bored with revising and I can always take a break and do some writing. As you know, a writer isn't short of story ideas. Just short of time to write!
That's my next 7-8 weeks. I'll finish the revision of my mystery at the end of February. I want to publish it as quickly after that as I can get it ready.
Here are my goals for the next few weeks:
1 - Publish Satisfyingly Strange Short Stories, Volume 2 in about a week.
2 - Publish volume 3 in early January
3 - Flipper Flash Fiction: I have thirteen stories written and all but three revised. I want to finish those this week. I have a Christmas story and will run it in the paper the next couple of weeks. Then I want to put several of the stories in the Halstead newspaper over the next several weeks to get my readers interested in the characters. At some point (probably Jan or Feb) I'll publish all the stories as an e-book.
4 - Flipper, book 1: I want to publish late January. It's done. I just need to put in additional pages and wait on cover from Debbie. Then learn how to format in Createspace
5 - I want to publish my Newspaper columns (I have almost 75 written over the last 3 1/2 years) in January. Right now I think I'll put them together in one book so I can do a printed copy and an e-book. I thought about releasing them in bunches of 25, as e-books, then bundling them and add a little extra to it. I just don't know if I gain anything by doing it that way? More books listed out, I guess, but I don't know that I would make any more. A lot of my readers who buy the e-books may not get the additional book.
6 - Most of the work above is done. Right now I am focused on revising. I'm revising my mystery with HTRYN, but I only get one lesson a week. It usually only takes me a couple of days to do the lesson, but then I have to wait until next week to do the next one. Last week I started on Flipper, book 3 and adapting Holly's lessons and my thoughts. I trimmed down her first eight lessons into three and will finish the second tonight. I don't know whether it's better for me to do some rough draft writing and wait until I've been completely through the HTRYN class to do another revision (she promises to show us how to do a one-pass revision, which would be awesome) or juggle two or three revisions at the same time, as I have started to do. I can easily juggle two revisions at the same time. I may be tempted to start a third, I don't know. I guess if I get bored with revising and I can always take a break and do some writing. As you know, a writer isn't short of story ideas. Just short of time to write!
That's my next 7-8 weeks. I'll finish the revision of my mystery at the end of February. I want to publish it as quickly after that as I can get it ready.
