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What are your writing goals for 2017?
My goal is to write more pieces for Ships Monthly, Aviation News and This England/Evergreen, get published in at least one new county magazine, and get published in one new special interest magazine.
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Plus I have an interesting time prepared for a character I know extremely well as I will be attending a five week course where the main aim is really put this one through the mangle
My goal is to enter more competitions.
What do "normal" people do without all these characters vying for attention in their heads??? ;;)
There, I've said it, now I'll have to get my finger out and do it!
(I have said this for four years and still haven't done it!)
I might summon up the courage to do a few short story readings too. I have been asked to do one in February.
I have two books of themed short stories to finish.
I have a new children's book idea in the pipeline.
I am not holding my breath...
I've been falling between two stools lately, by spreading myself too thinly, and not only has my book been cancelled and the competition circuit been dire but I appear to have lost my seat at the Take a Break table by not subbing there much this year. There's only so much of me to go round and I'd rather succeed at one thing than fail at three or four.
Carried over from 2015
Maybe also writing some solo and collab shorts.
I hope you find the sequel easier than the first. Of course you have the framework; it's just pulling 90,000 words from your head that takes effort!
My Beyond all Doubt is trade released in January, and then I have to stump up with a sequel scheduled for June 28 release. In the final stages now.
As for a 2017 goal, I want to do something in the 'family saga' arena as a distinct shift from crime. Got no ideas at present; I guess that's what makes it a challenge!
More winging! That's my goal!
And so have the rest of you Tbers.
I'm on chapter six, pet, and your character, Marchant is coming across as a bit of a loose cannon, physically he brings to mind an American detective, I think he was called Cannonball, maybe you are too young to remember the programme. I'm hoping Olivia gets to give Marchant a verbal kick in the, watsits. Reading on tonight.
2) Write the poems for a book I've had accepted (Macmillan) but not written the poems for by the end of February (MUST get going)
3) Launch 'Reaching the Stars' Poems About Extraordinary Women and Girls (Macmillan) in March, and sell it in schools...
4) Finish off book for Bloomsbury
5) Finish several other projects and send in some new ideas.
6) Make a Powerpoint which will wow people without me having to.
I like presenting video clips, text and music with Powerpoint, a very useful bit of kit.
I shamefully concede many springs have passed this chicken; I do not know of 'Cannonball'. Just looked it up -- ran from 1958 to 1959. Now I can safely say that 'Marchant' is a product of my schizoid imagination.