Final Tri-Annual Progress Report & 2018 Writing Plan

Usually I’d post this during the final days of December, right before the New Year. Alas, December 31 was on a Sunday. And I’ve become a stickler in keeping with my posting schedule. So I compromised to have this post published right as the old year ends and the new year begins.

But before I start regaling you with my final progress report and 2018 writing plans, I just want to say…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Now, in 2017 I made a lot of plans. Some I was on goal, others I was not. In particular in not writing any new stories until at least I’ve completed one or two of my current  WIPs. But I did write 30 new poems in NaPoWriMo this past April. And I did get two poems, both written during NaPoWriMo, published in an online magazine.

Anyways, here’s a look at my writing progress from September to December. And what my writing plan for 2018 will be.

Submissions:

• Published two poems in Feminine Collective magazine

Writing plan in 2018:

• Write and submit more poems
• Write more feminist poems for chapbook
• Revise and edit feminist poems in 2018 NaPoWriMo
• Find a new title for poetry manuscript
• Decide whether to self-publish again or submit manuscript to publishing presses and or enter contests
• Revise/edit forgotten short stories to submit

Wattpad:

• Added new story, Not Dreaming of You, to my works.
• Added a new story collection, Foreseen, to my works.

Writing plan in 2018:

• Create another want ad in the Multimedia Designs club forum to find a new cover design for Not Dreaming of You
• Create another want ad in the Multimedia Designs club forum to find a new cover design for The Soul Traveler
• Create a want ad in the Multimedia Designs club forum to find new cover designs for the Foreseen series
• Write and upload new chapters of Dreaming of You on Wattpad
• Write and upload Not Dreaming of You chapters on Wattpad
• Write and upload Foreseen stories 1-4 on Wattpad
• Write and upload Hellsgate on Wattpad

Writing:

• Dreaming of You
  • • 48,958 words written
    • 1.1k reads, 57 votes on Wattpad
• The Soul Traveler
  • • Wrote and uploaded 5 new chapters on Wattpad
    • 168 reads, 23 votes on Wattpad
• Foreseen 1-4
  • • Wrote rough sketch/draft for the four romantic shorts
    • 8 reads, 1 vote on Wattpad
• Not Dreaming of You
  • • 30,064 words written in NaNoWriMo
    • 35 reads, 5 votes on Wattpad
• Paving My Author’s Road blog
  • • 490 followers
    • 367 blog posts published

Writing plan in 2018:

• Complete, rewrite, revise/edit, have professionally edited and beta read test The Soul Traveler
• Pitch and query The Soul Traveler in a pitch party on Twitter and to agents and publishers
• Write Hellsgate (temp title), a fantasy/supernatural short/novella
• Write the Foreseen series draft in the 85K90 writing challenge
• Rewrite, revise/edit, have professionally edited and beta read test Foreseen series
• Query Foreseen series to Carina Press Dirty Bits and other publishers/anthologies
• Finish writing Dreaming of You
• Rewrite, revise/eidt, have professionally edited and beta read test Dreaming of You
• Write and complete Not Dreaming of You
• Possibly return to finish writing Harbingers of El Tinor
• Possibly return to finish writing Nadia the Fire Witch
• Continue writing and scheduling blog posts once a week, every Monday at 8am
• Gain 100 more new blog followers
• Update/redesign blog
• Read the books my husband got for me for Christmas
• Plan another 30 Days of Poetry Love blog special for NaPoWriMo April 2018
• Choose a new story to write or an old story to rewrite in NaNoWriMo 2018

 

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Whew I’m doing a lot in 2018. Good thing I can pick and choose which projects I’ll take on. And that I’m flexible so my writing plan for 2018 isn’t written in stone. Plus, let’s not forget I always take a blogging break from May to August.

What are your writing plans for 2018? Made any New Year’s resolutions?