Happy New Year everyone!
I like to start the new year with a clean slate so this year, I’m not making any resolutions that I would most likely have already broken:-).
So instead, I’ve decided make a to do list for the coming year.
1.) Publish the first book in my urban scifi/fantasy Blue Manuever
2.) Finish the Valentine’s Day sequel to Some Enchanted Autumn and the Christmas Village by the Ides of March and submit it Zumaya Publications for publication in 2013
3.) Finish writing the sequel to Redaction and try not to actually kill real, live human beings while plunging to the horrible depths I now that story is going to take me. Oh, and, keep the book under 200K works while finishing it before September.
4.) Complete the publishing process for my scifi novels with romantic elements–the Syn-En Solution and the Syn-En: Culture Clash before April.
5.) Finish scrapbooking the year 2010 (don’t judge me)
6.) Finish those quilts I started in 2010 (I said don’t judge me)
7.) Write the second book in the Urban fantasy/scifi Blue series.
8.) Schedule a blog tour to support my new Urban scifi/fantasy series
9) Make the retro dresses my daughters want me to sew for them.
10) Help the with end of the world-not! anthology my publisher wants to put out next year as well as write a short story for it.
11) Begin work on the New Years themed sequel to the Christmas, Halloween and Valentine’s Day book (potentially writing a short story tie in)
12.) Start my new organic garden
Those are my major to do points for the coming year. Somewhere in there I should remember to go to my day job, my writing groups, breathe, cook meals, chauffeur children, clean, spend time with my husband and all the other things that life entails.
For me, it’s a pretty ambitious list. Perhaps I should include a check back on it for the first Monday of every quarter!
However you plan on tackling the new year, I hope you find health and happiness. Oh and on December 21st, I’ll be attending an end of the world party! It should be great fun.
I’m still waiting for my wife to tell me what me “list” is for this year. Hopefully it’s not as extensive as yours.
Those do seem like some ambitious plans. Good luck with everything!
I’m right there with you! I’ve never made a forma New Years resolution before which I just blogged about it my post today. I think a list of to-do’s will serve a very similar purpose as a New Years resolution, but mentally may help to keep you focused and committed because they’re not so much an option you can toss aside. Best of luck with everything on your list and Happy New Year!
You are sickeningly ambitious! I’m not even going to list all the things I should do this year, as chances are, I won’t get to them. But I can say that I will try really hard not to say yes to so many shows, the bathroom will get repainted, and that the basement will be transformed from playroom to “teen hangout”
I dont do NYR but good luck with yours 🙂
~jennifer
I hope you accomplish everything you want in 2012!! Happy new year
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I plan to spend less and reuse more of what I already have!
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