Where am I going in 2024?
I love planning, so this part is easy for me. Even though I know, from years of experience, that plans rarely achieve full fruition, I feel comfort having them.
My Writer’s Plan for 2024:
Sparrow Spy Corps, revise to final, FINAL draft.
o Include in anthology for Flannery O’Connell contest. May 2024
o Submit to agents: if rejected, see next:
o Publish on Amazon.
· Anthology for Flannery O’Connell contest: May 2024 deadline
o Finish revision of Sparrow Spy Corps for anthology.
o Review all the stories that will be included.
o Request read-through by someone.
· Pirate story, revise to final, FINAL draft.
o Submit to agents.
· Big Edna and the Fae: finish manuscript, 15 scenes to go at 3 March 2024.
o Expected completion: 30 Mar 2024.
o Finished first draft: 3 APRIL 2024!!!
· Anthology for Mary: all of above but including non-fiction and poems.
The looming deadline is May 30 for the Flannery O’Connell Anthology Contest. The competition requires a word count of 44,000 to 77,000 and can include novellas but not poems or nonfiction. Right now, my word count is under 44,000, thus the need for Sparrow Spy Corps, which can be classified as a novella. For this I need the sparrow story revised to final, and reviews of 30 of my short stories. Whew!
To inspire my work on Sparrow Spy Corps, I got some mugs to remind me to work on it.
I hate to admit this, but IF I miss this deadline (which I want to meet) then I can submit it next year.
I hope to have two novels ready to submit to agents this year, and an anthology ready for publishing on Amazon. If not accepted by agents, I’ll publish these three works on Amazon, available for sale in time for holiday bazaars. October 30 is the deadline to publish on Amazon in time for the holidays.
I’ll also be working on revisions to Big Edna and the Fae, hopefully for publication next year. At year end, I plan to have made some noteworthy changes to my Wall of Pride (see blog post 6 March 2024).
What are your writer goals for 2024? Have you had stories published in anthologies? What was that experience like for you?
