2011 Goals Check-in: June
Jul. 3rd, 2011 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poetigressWell, by now I'm down to two goals for the year: Finish at least one short story per month, and open an Etsy shop. I have a feeling the Etsy shop goal is going to be put on hold until fall, and if things go well, I'm going to be focused more on novels than short stories during the second half of the year. So with all that in mind, I think my goals check-ins are going to be less list-oriented and more just taking stock of where things are and what's on the horizon.
I worked on a few different short stories in June (and got a couple of the drafts I finished earlier this year polished and submitted), but I didn't get any stories fully completed by the end of the month. There were two good reasons for this, though: first, I started working full-time as a medical transcriptionist instead of part-time (meaning I now spend eight hours a day at the computer instead of four), and second, I spent a big chunk of June getting the last revisions done on my novel By Sword and Star. The extra hours of work time sapped my energy for a couple weeks before I adjusted, and the novel took up most of the rest.
As far as the rest of this year goes, as I just mentioned in my earlier post, I'm planning on doing Camp NaNoWriMo in August, with a book concept called The Second Life of Bartholomew T. Lion. If that doesn't completely burn me out, I'd really like to also do the regular NaNo in November, to complete a first draft of my second furry novel, working title Huntress. This has wound up being a very lousy year for me so far in terms of publishing short stories, so I'm putting the focus on creation for the rest of the year, and I would love to be able to close out 2011 with one novel published and two others with completed first drafts. We'll see...
I worked on a few different short stories in June (and got a couple of the drafts I finished earlier this year polished and submitted), but I didn't get any stories fully completed by the end of the month. There were two good reasons for this, though: first, I started working full-time as a medical transcriptionist instead of part-time (meaning I now spend eight hours a day at the computer instead of four), and second, I spent a big chunk of June getting the last revisions done on my novel By Sword and Star. The extra hours of work time sapped my energy for a couple weeks before I adjusted, and the novel took up most of the rest.
As far as the rest of this year goes, as I just mentioned in my earlier post, I'm planning on doing Camp NaNoWriMo in August, with a book concept called The Second Life of Bartholomew T. Lion. If that doesn't completely burn me out, I'd really like to also do the regular NaNo in November, to complete a first draft of my second furry novel, working title Huntress. This has wound up being a very lousy year for me so far in terms of publishing short stories, so I'm putting the focus on creation for the rest of the year, and I would love to be able to close out 2011 with one novel published and two others with completed first drafts. We'll see...
