2012 Plan of Attack

A new year and another attempt at the Write1Sub1 challenge. My goal for 2011 was to write and submit one story monthly. I fell off the wagon in the spring but revamped later in the year to complete about 20 stories but really struggled to submit. I got four individual rejections and two published (they were twitter fiction pieces). It might not be what I set out to accomplish but I still submitted at least 7 stories and that was 7 more than ever before.

 On to 2012 I’m going to try the monthly version of short stories again. Plus, I’m adding the Novel Challenge, a shoot off form of W1S1 from the Absolute Forums. Seeing others work towards similar goals has been all the difference in plugging away. I need a firmer plan than last year so here’s how I’m going to do it.

• 12 Shorts: work on a short story collection from a flash I wrote during StoryADay.


•  1 Novel: finish my NaNo first draft by January, let it sit while I work on some wonky world building and have it ready to query by October. That will have me ready for NaNo 2012.


• Speaking of NaNo I want to start planning a little earlier this year, August, so I can really crank out the story come November.


• Alex, another writer participating in this December blog chain mentioned blogging goals and think that is a great idea. So I’m going to post once a week, I can’t promise to do that on all my hibernating blogs though. 

That’s it for now! I think this is the end of the blog chain so check out Dawn’s post before me and Samuel’s who got us started.


What about you?  Are you making plans for 2012?

Written in December: NaNo Came and Went

The National Novel Writing Month blew through and I didn’t even post a token update! That doesn’t mean I forgot the challenge, I won my second out of three attempts and changed my genre from regency to fantasy this year. The past two got too bogged down my large gaps that led to research binges so I thought redoing a fairy tale story I started as a teen would be easy. Sounds great, right? Two words... 

World Building 

Yep, still needed to research not just the sayings and cultures of a bygone era but everything! It wasn’t that bad- somehow I was able to avoid the siren’s call to truly research everything. Still I have huge gaps to think about so finishing and editing it should be interesting.

 I also wrote some twitter fiction (10) and 4 other stories around 50 words plus I subbed one so I made my monthly goal!

The new year comes with its own Plan of Attack!

Now comes the hard part- finishing it!