Post by bill on Feb 13, 2017 19:34:44 GMT
I posted these earlier in another thread but I wanted to create a thread that I could use to track them though out the year. This way I can make notes to myself as I progress.
Planning:
- Flipper, book 4 (I have about 10,000 words written but need to outline the rest of the story) (I added about 35,000 words during Camp Nano in July and now have a very rough first draft done!)
- A World Amongst (This is my ghost story. I wrote 35,000 words for Nano. I have much more of the story I want to write and can't wait to get to it. I don't know how this will turn out - a novel? several novels? novellas? I don't know and don't think I will until I finish the story.) (I added over 44,000 words during Nano in November to create a rough first draft)
WIP - A Millionaire story (I started this 2-3 years ago and have bits and pieces. Actually, I think I'm going to combine two different stories I've started. It needs a lot of thought and organizing before I proceed, but I'd like to get it going forward)
HTTS - Prank on Santa Clause Story (I have an idea for an original Santa story that I'm really excited about!)
Rough draft writing:
- The four stories mentioned above. Here are the priorities:
1 - Prank on Santa Clause Story. I want to write this through HTTS starting in the summer or early Fall.
2 - Flipper, book 4. I hope to outline and write this during the summer
3 - A World Amongst. I can't wait to continue with this story but I think it will probably have to wait until Nanowrimo in November
4 - Millionaire Story. I suspect I won't get to this in 2017 but would like to if possible.
Edit (revise)
WIP - Mystery (I'm in week 15 of HTRYN and want to finish this story and submit to agents. If I don't get a bite on an agent I want to self-publish in 2017) (I'm in the midst of another revision. I completed this task but am not ready to publish. Moving this to 2018.
- Earth (Flipper, book 2. It's done but needs tweeking. I might try to use it for the HTRYN crash course after I complete the course with Mystery)
- Zentron (Flipper, book 3. I have it written and have started it through HTRYN but paused now that I have a job. I want to finish revising so I can publish it early in 2018) (Will publish summer, 2018)
Market (Publish)
Vetrix (Jan/Feb) Complete 4/2
Flipper Flash Fiction (Feb) Complete 4/2
- Unconventional Love Stories (Feb) FF
- Satisfyingly Strange Short Stories, Volume 4 (Feb)
- Newspaper Columns (April, 2018)
- Hodgepodge of Poetry (Spring)
- Flash Fiction Collection (Put all my flash fiction stories in one book and add a few more. This will make it big enough I can create a printed copy to have available) (January, 2018)
* The above books are all finished. I may have a littel formatting/proofreading to do but the stories are complete
- Earth (Flipper, book 2. I would like to have it published sometime in the summer) (Complete - December)
- Mystery (I hope to publish this by next fall)
* That gives me three novels released in 2017. And a large amount of backlog of flash fiction and misc. books.
-Once I get the Flipper Flash Fiction done I want to find out the cost of the book. I would like to give away copies to Halstead Middle School students. I would also like to give a copy of Vetrix (Flipper, book 1) to each of Blake's classmates in 8th grade. Sure, it's in part hoping they will buy further books, but it's mainly to give Blake an opportunity to enjoy the attention and notoriety. This book would never have happened without him and his name will be on the front and picture on the back with me.
- In May I want to take what physical books I have and the ones that I have done of Mom's and set up a booth at Yates Center Days. I need to figure out how much of that kind of stuff I will need to do to get my name known.
Study:
-HTRYN (I will finish this course at the end of Feb, early Mar)
WIP - HTTS (I am thinking about doing this course and writing my Santa story. I would love to have the Santa story ready by next Christmas season but I doubt that is possible with everything else I have going on. By the time I take the course and write the story, then revise, etc. it will probably have to wait until Christmas 2018.)
Those are my goals for now. I wonder how any new ideas I come up with might fit in? This is my first time to have yearly writing goals that include more than one story, so we'll see how they go.
Mom's Books:
- Trapped on a Cloud. Done!
- Legend of the Aneeka. I have the manuscript from Susan. Need to proofread then should be ready to publish
- Fairies. I need to sort through manuscripts, read, then select one and finish.
- Ghosts in a Quarry. I need to sort through manuscripts, read, then select one and finish.
- Other book I've forgotten for now. I need to sort through manuscripts, read, then select one and finish
I am biting off the books as I have time. I would like to have three books ready for Yates Center Day's at the end of May but we'll see.
- Sort through Mom's other writings to determine what exists and what can be published and how. I'm sure once I tackle this it will become several goals. May not be until 2018.
Planning:
- A World Amongst (This is my ghost story. I wrote 35,000 words for Nano. I have much more of the story I want to write and can't wait to get to it. I don't know how this will turn out - a novel? several novels? novellas? I don't know and don't think I will until I finish the story.) (I added over 44,000 words during Nano in November to create a rough first draft)
HTTS - Prank on Santa Clause Story (I have an idea for an original Santa story that I'm really excited about!)
Rough draft writing:
- The four stories mentioned above. Here are the priorities:
1 - Prank on Santa Clause Story. I want to write this through HTTS starting in the summer or early Fall.
3 - A World Amongst. I can't wait to continue with this story but I think it will probably have to wait until Nanowrimo in November
Edit (revise)
- Earth
Market (Publish)
- Satisfyingly Strange Short Stories, Volume 4 (Feb)
* The above books are all finished. I may have a littel formatting/proofreading to do but the stories are complete
* That gives me three novels released in 2017. And a large amount of backlog of flash fiction and misc. books.
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Study:
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WIP - HTTS (I am thinking about doing this course and writing my Santa story. I would love to have the Santa story ready by next Christmas season but I doubt that is possible with everything else I have going on. By the time I take the course and write the story, then revise, etc. it will probably have to wait until Christmas 2018.)
Those are my goals for now. I wonder how any new ideas I come up with might fit in? This is my first time to have yearly writing goals that include more than one story, so we'll see how they go.
Mom's Books:
- Legend of the Aneeka. I have the manuscript from Susan. Need to proofread then should be ready to publish
- Ghosts in a Quarry. I need to sort through manuscripts, read, then select one and finish.
- Other book I've forgotten for now. I need to sort through manuscripts, read, then select one and finish
I am biting off the books as I have time. I would like to have three books ready for Yates Center Day's at the end of May but we'll see.
- Sort through Mom's other writings to determine what exists and what can be published and how. I'm sure once I tackle this it will become several goals. May not be until 2018.
