Another year has just about slipped off the calendars into the past and a new one is beginning.
This past year saw me beginning down the road towards embracing my dream of writing. I attended two cons and participated in my first writing workshop. I took over the infant writing group at the store. I’ve begun to collect a pile of rejection letters. I have started a blog and on two social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter. I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time and while I didn’t finish I finished about 25k words in 17 days and I am proud of that.
My oldest started high school and my youngest 1st grade. Two more kids began piano lessons and a third started dance. My husband received a promotion and changed companies.
Life is ever changing.
This year I could be making a dozen resolutions but my resolutions never last a month. So instead I am making goals and I am sharing them with y’all to help me keep them.
Writing Goals
- Finish and polish the novel I started during this year’s NaNoWriMo
- Submit enough short stories to various markets that I have five pieces circulating at once
- Attend RadCon and MisCon. Put my hand out and say “Hi” to at least one author at each.
- Research into a third con to attend, and if money permits go
- Keep up with this blog, including more fiction pieces and more regular posts
Non-Writing Goals
- Pay off at least two more credit cards
- Start saving for a family trip to Disney World in 2011
- Finish a cross stitching kit
- Scrapbook more
- Start keeping track of the books I read in my journal
- Have more fun
That’s my list for the new year. What’s on yours?
