I'm back! I dropped off the face of the blogosphere for over a month, and I'm sorry that I haven't been posting or commenting on other people's blogs. I've been so busy lately that I had to let my blog hibernate for a while.
It is that time of year again! I've been working on my list of Big, Fun, Scary Adventures for 2011. (These are akin to New Year's Resolutions, but Bigger, Funner, and Scarier... and more Adventurous!) Last year, I had these four:
1. Attend my first writers conference
Last March, I went all the way down to Florida for the Florida Christian Writers Conference, and I had a great experience and learned a lot. You can read my summary of the trip HERE.
2. Get my driver's license
I completed this one just in time! Just a few days after Christmas, I passed my driving exam and got my license. Unfortunately, I don't have a car, so it doesn't help me much.
3. Write a song every month
This is the one goal that kind of flopped. I wrote lots of pieces and parts of songs, but I didn't finish any of them. Oh well.
4. Start a photography blog
I did start a photography blog, which you can visit HERE.
My list of Adventures for 2011:
1. Write 250,000 words
2. Set up an Etsy shop and sell stuff
3. Make a short film with my brother
4. Go to college
5. Cut my hair
Every single one of those goals is Big, Fun, and Scary. At least, for me.
The first one, about writing all those words, may best be broken down into monthly goals. So I started a list of writing goals from January through May:
January
-Write Nanooks in Trench Coats (this is goofy, crazy, 4-day novel writing race to 50,000 words with my brother. I already won, by the way.)
-Type out Greenheart, my NaNoWriMo novel that I wrote mostly by hand
-Plan and outline my 2YN novel (an online writing course I'm doing)
February
-Start writing my 2YN novel, and get at least 40,000 words into it
March (National Novel Editing Month!)
-Finish editing The Shadow of Rebellion, my sci-fi novel
April (Script Frenzy!)
-Finish writing my screenplay "The Twin Confessions of Melody & Harmony"
-Write a steampunk short film script (yes, this ties in with Adventure #3 above!)
May
-Finish my 2YN novel (it's a young adult novel, so it'll probably end up around 75-90,000 words)
I haven't decided what my writing goals will be from June forward, because I may have new story ideas by then.
I make goals like this and write them down so that I'll have something to work toward, and when I come to the end of the year, I can look back and see how far I've come. It's both a motivator and an encouragement.
What are some of the big, fun, and scary adventures that you will have in the year 2011?
