January Goals

So how did I do on my (overly-ambitious) December goals?

• Post every day on the other blog for Holidailies. (Note: I’m not saying that they will all be interesting posts. I try not to set impossible goals.)
• Get the next chapter of ALL BASILISKS out to YWC. (I may need to take a field trip and/or rewrite some of it.)
• Keep ten queries active.
• Rewrite the current query so it invokes a better sense of wonder. Or something. I’ll try something different in any case.
• Finish the novel I worked on during November. (This may be a bit of a stretch goal since it’s December and there’s always a ton of stuff going on, even in my life.)

(Side note: OMG this new WordPress editor is killing me. If it had been this way a year ago I would have started this blog on a different platform. Okay. I’m going to stop whining now.)

So yeah, a pretty solid D or possibly a D-minus on those December goals, but I knew it would be a problem with everything else going on in December. I’d counted on writing a bit more while staying at the (weird) hotel. That didn’t happen. I got a bit more written on the WIP, but it’s nowhere near the end.

I only had nine queries active at the end of the month because it seemed like most agents were taking time off in December. Time to rectify that now!

Onward to the January goals!

• Get the next chapter of ALL BASILISKS out to YWC.
• Get ten queries active.
• Finish the novel I worked on during November. (This may be a bit of a stretch goal since it’s December and there’s always a ton of stuff going on, even in my life.)

In other news, I’ve decided the novel not called “Dude, Where’s My Dragon” will be the next to receive all my editing attention. I need to get some beta feedback first, but it will probably also be the next to be queried. I just need to pick a new title first…