2015 Writing Goals: Post Your Goals for the Next Year

Complete 20 short stories and 1 novel. By complete, I mean drafted and revised and critiqued.

Getting one of these published would be a bonus.

Start submitting stuff again. I got a ton of rejections earlier this year, polished things up, but stopped submitting out of fear. Now I want to start again.
(I feel like I should say 'to write x number of words' or 'x number of pages.' But really, I wrote several first drafts and I've been so scatterbrained lately that I feel like I need to finish something.)

My writing goal is to have book 2 finished and in tip top shape, and to have made a massive dent in book 3.

'Goal' sounds soooooo much better than 'deadline.'

live through the year and write some poems.

1. Self-publish two novellas (covers are all ready, they just need to be edited and formatted).

2. Revise a manuscript and send out queries to agents.

3. Write at least two more novellas and one novel.

Why do I have the feeling #3 will be the easiest?

I can only commit to two goals.

1. Finish my near future SF novel and send a submission-ready draft to my agent in May.

2. Finish a new and thorough revision of an existing novel by the end of summer, and send that to my agent.

I have a third novel project I'd like to tackle, but the second half of the year depends on what happens with items #1 and #2.

But to make those first two items, I am switching to part time status until July.

Finish, polish and submit book 2 of Treading the Boards (50% done first draft right now).

Write, polish and submit book 3 (vague outline stage now).

Sit down and redraft my outline for Historical WIP. I had a semi-okay start going, but the structure, voice and POV characters need total reworks now that I've changed direction. I'd love to get into the writing portion of this as well, but I need to make sure I have a solid structure for it first.

1. Pitch current novel to agents.

2. Write another novel.

3. Continue writing shorts.

Get this R&R out the door.

Finish two other manuscripts in varying states of decay.

Figure out where I stand with two pubbed novels that are lingering in limbo.

Fruity dared me, so here are my shameless selfie-whoring goals for the New Year.

Get Catnip 2 published. Sell more of Catnip (and all my other books, duh)

Submit and have at LEAST two more books published either digitally or in paperback or both, preferably both.

Have sex more often...but that's not part of this forum, so why did I write that?

Find an agent. Sex would not be a requirement.

Make a million sales. (A guy can dream, can't he?)

Annoy Laverne more.

1. Finally get UF novel into query stage (I'm just starting the fourth pass). And query it. Then start edits on the second in the trilogy.

2. Finish writing the first draft of SF novel.

3. Finally fix up the old stories I have stagnating (or retire them) and resubmit. Fix the multiple first drafted stories I wrote this last year and never got back to. Getting less rejections would be nice but I don't really have control over that for some reason

4. Not get sick. Please.

1. Finish book 1 for publication in August.

2. Finish writing book 2 draft.

3. Submit at least 5 short stories.

4. Write a novella and enter it in the Griffith Review novella project.

5. As always, write one thing of any length that I really love.

Start and finish another novel. Sell it. And stop freaking out about feeling like a fool about it.

My goals are somewhat dependent on outside events, because Things have stopped me writing so much this year and, for the foreseeable future, will continue to do so.

However:

1 - I have three books coming out this year (and still have edits to go on book 3 and copy edits on all of them), so I'm going finish the bloody things and try to promo the hell out of them when they come out.
2 - Pitch/hopefully sell new series, and get started on it.

Any more than that would be a bonus, atm. If anyone wants to offer my Old Man a decent job so I can go back to part time, and/or find a cure for ME, it'd help a lot.

I want to finish my Nano novel. Or at least get it to a point where it is a full, reasonably complete document, so that next year I can focus on farming it out.

I wish I had more goals, but frankly it took me three days to come up with that one.

Under contract to deliver a novel in May. Haven't started it yet, so there's that...

Finish my current WIP and start querying agents. (I gave myself a deadline of February 28 for finishing it, and so far it's looking like I'll meet that without much trouble.)

Start the next WIP and be into revisions by the end of the year.

1.) Finish my first full length novel.

2.) Come up with a title for said novel that I don't completely hate.

3.) Submit 5 to 10 short stories.

1) Finish the WIPs in my signature.
2) Start a new blog and update it every day, even if it's to say there's nothing new for the day.

1. Survive the publication of my debut in March with my sanity intact. I hope I can just enjoy the process, no matter how well or poorly the book does.

2. Hopefully sell my second novel at some point (though people keep telling me my career is "probably over" if this one tanks. Yikes!).

3. Finish another project.