Tuesday, December 1, 2015

End of the year resolutions...

I look back to the end of 2015.  I wonder.  Where did this year go?  However, I did get some writing projects done...

1)  Ganbaatar:  the rough draft of a novella set in 13th century Asia got completed.  The manuscript was started in the fall of 2014.  Many things kept me from completing it.  However, I followed an outline and kept to it.  I wanted a novel.  Instead, I got a novella.  I believe that was due to me sticking to my chapter outline.  However the material was there for a novel.

2)  Half A World Away - A Poetry Chapbook:  I worked on poetry the second half of 2015.  I took my good poetry and bought it to WUTA to be critiqued and reworked.  Half A World Away is the result of that revision.  It's due for Big Books in March 2016.

3)  Poetry:  I worked on random poetry for eventual submission to an academic literary journal in the hopes of getting published again for the first time in twenty old years.

4)  Scars of Victory:  Final short story in the Desmon Singh story cycle.

5)  Kepler Falling:  Manuscript was revised and edited on its third draft earlier in the 2015.

6)  New Sci-Fi Novel:  I started a rough draft of a new speculative fiction novel.  It's about 19,000 words.  I'm aiming for 80,000 words at the end of June 2016.

2016 will see the following:

1)  Completion of rough draft of New Sci-Fi Novel.
2)  Start of third sci-fi novel in August 2016.
3)  Editing/Revising of Half A World Away.
4)  Poetry submissions to literary journals.