It has been a challenging year personally and professionally, and I didn’t get as much done as I had hoped or planned. I started the year with some goals to revise and submit short fiction, participate in the “write-a-story-a-week” challenge with someone on a writing Discord (he succeeded), and edit my novel. I did very little of this. I ended up going the whole year without submitting anything, but at least I didn’t get any rejections.
I did start a new writing project in October. I am writing up some personal stories and putting it together as a memoir for my brother. I also did complete the initial round of edits on my novel over the spring and had a professional editor read it and make comments, but I haven’t gone back through those yet. I also commissioned a cover for my novel, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I highly recommend RT Ester if you like this minimalist style.
My goals for the new year are to get back in the writing habit. I may re-try the story deck engine prompt-a-week challenge, but rather than writing stories from the prompts, just try to get something written at all. for practice. I’m also going to keep working on the memoir, some other shorter projects, and begin working on the novel edits. I’d like to think that I can get it out on sub this year. It is ready, after another round of edits, and I’m ready to show it to the world and see if it sticks anywhere.
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