HAPPY NEW YEARS
Everyone had a good night?!
Everyone ready to start 2013?!
My Resolutions
1. Write more. Yeah, but it’s
something I want to do. It’s something I need to do.
o Though more so, published is
probably want I really should put here.
o Having people read my books,
learn from that, help create something I can send off.
o I also want to settle into
research. Getting a better grip and a more indebt style of it (being as having
one, since right now, I don’t)
2. Look into (and get into) a
course on how to Edit a Manuscript.
o This is more a 2013—14 thing
o I want to do the whole lot,
but we’ll have to see. Mostly because I’m pretty sure I might have to go to
Blacktown to do it. And that’s too far when you have kids on a weekday,
especially when I’m not starting work, I have to be here for the kids when they
get home.
§ I’m going to be doing some
short hour internship (if I can) at Blue Mountains Press!, to get my credits
up. What if I want to get into this career when I decide to go back to work.
§ I also want to do a simple
computer graphics course to learn how to create covers for my books.
§ I also want to do something
about distribution and selling, since it would help if I ever decide
self-publish (which is the way im swinging) I want to be able to do it as cheaply as possible.
o More thoughts into this.
I’ve decided that I’m going to do everything that I need to be able open up my
own publishing house.
3. Get better
o It’s not really that easy.
But I need to go to the doctor (even know my chest is tightening up),
about….well, personal stuff that apparently isn’t cosier to talk about. And my
head. I need to see a shrink and see if I can step over that last line. Though
I doubt I’ll ever be able to stop falling.
4. Get a routine
o With my writing, with my
housework for the week. Because if I’m going down the road I am, I have to be a
stay at home mum, with a side job, and therefore I need to, you know, be one.
o –find a new house. start a
whole new routine
5. Volunteer in the community.
o Well I’m not working,
getting money from the government makes me feel like I should, at least, give a
little back. So….kinda obvious. Just gotta look into it and suck.
What I want to finish in 2013
·
Get a book published.
Nah,
in all seriously, these are the book I have printed out waiting for me to
finish
·
Untitled
o
My fairy-tale inspired stand-alone, YA.
o
This is what happens in my mind when Peter Pan meets Welsh myth.
o
Anyway, it’s nearly done, I need to finish it (hopefully before Feb) so
it can get sent off for BETA read.
·
Forever with my Werewolf (moonlit Wolves #2)
o
Needs a second look over and fix up. Though I don’t actually have
anyone to read it, so…..
·
Life Just Sucks That Way (TragicTeen collection #1)
o
Some else to read. Just need to finish printing it out and off it can
go.
·
Beauty of Summer & Body of Darkness (warrior brethren #.5 &1)
o
Needs BETA read, and are one print away from being sent out
·
Let them Hunt
o
Re-write, in process, but I’m not rushed, I don’t see these books going
anywhere just a place for me to let out that twisted scary part.
·
By Moonlight & Red Midnight (Teen-Hunt #1&2)
o
Both getting re-wrote—cut downs. They are to long
What else
·
Finish at least the next four books in the Moonlit Moon series. I would really like the first ten finished,
but with other that I would like to do that’s unrealistic, even for me. But
next four. That’s a good head start
·
Hands of destiny, book 2 in the Warrior
Brethren series.
·
Gruff Brothers. YA dystopian stand alone.
o Well I hope it’s an actually
dystopian and not what everyone else has. It’s about the lands after the water
rises. A large number of people line in the walls, a massive area of refugee
camps. The government controls with iron fists (that the saying right) and
other live in the forest that grew out of the water. It’s about greener
pasters, because the story is inspired by the billy goats gruff.
o Anyway, that idea makes it
dystopian or not??
o Its also—or I want it to
be—going to be a bromance. Literally, it’s about the friendship between the
middle brother and an outside. But because I’m going to be writing the book in
the voices of the three brothers, its going to have this friendship seen through
different eyes, different ages and hopefully I can pull it off the way I see it
in my head.
·
Killing Me (soul stealer #1),
paranormal YA
o This had already got 11,017
words in it. And a defiant voice, with the backstory already dropped in.
So that’s only 7 books
Four at 26,000 at a max, so 104,000
Two at 35,000 to 40,000
One between 40,000 and 60,000
So, I’m looking at 244,000 words on the outside this
year.
365 days in a year, take 52 days for my day off,
which leaves 313 days
at 779 words a day. (I think, I was a little better
with number than I was with words, but its saying nothing, so feel free to
correct me if I’m wrong)
Last bit of news
I’ve decided that I’m going to change my blog around
a lot. I’m going to start making it into something more adult. More into a m/m
style blog, because that’s what I write, and that’s what I read. So it makes
sense, right?
Though I won’t really be changing all that much.
Just trying to swing everything a different, or more, appropriate way.
(I may wont be reviewing books as much, only ones I need to talk about, good or bad. I will review anything if requested.)
(I may wont be reviewing books as much, only ones I need to talk about, good or bad. I will review anything if requested.)
Sorry if I lose you, but I fully understand.
So there you have it, the plans and shit for my
books in 2013. What’s yours?!
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