New year, new resolutions. This won’t be an especially long post, but I am going to do something I’ve never done before and lay out my 2018 business plan here in addition to my resolutions. The only real difference between the two is that the business plan is more specific to my writing career, whereas the resolutions can–and often are, in my case–more general. I’ve kept my business plans to myself since I started doing them, but I’m hoping that posting this year’s plan on my blog will help keep me accountable to my goals and my writing.
My resolutions for this year are:
1. Finish one rewrite and one revision pass of my mystery WIP and get it to my CPs for feedback.
2. Stay on top of my wedding planning and stay sane in the process.
3. Start planning more definitively for my future, especially as far as where we’d like to live.
4. Be ready to start drafting a new WIP by November, for National Novel Writing Month.
5. Begin volunteering again – either for a politically minded organization like Indivisible, or for a local group like the animal shelter.
My business plan for this year includes:
1. Finish one rewrite and one revision pass of my mystery WIP and get it to my CPs for feedback.
2. Finish revising my synopsis for Facing the Music, and submit the manuscript to one major pitch contest.
3. Complete research reading list for my YA political thriller, which I’m calling Renegade for now.
4. Refine the series arc for the Renegade series.
5. Be ready to start drafting a new WIP by November, for National Novel Writing Month.
What are your New Years Resolutions? Or, if you don’t make resolutions, what are you hoping to accomplish in the coming year?