We’ve crossed the halfway point for 2017. What have you accomplished so far this year in terms of your writing? What would you put under the category “Needs Improvement”?
5 thoughts on “Reader Friday: Your Writing Progress So Far In 2017?”
After getting 3 books out in 2016, I’m taking it “easy” and have one novel currently with my editor, just getting started on a novella, and have put 4 audiobooks up for sale. I also did some research: a week on a Caribbean cruise and a week at a cattle ranch.
I published a novel in both eBook and paperback formats, along with three novelettes during the late spring and early summer.
I’m working on the sequel to the published novel now, plus a stand-alone novel. My goal was to publish the sequel in the late fall, and the new stand-alone in the winter or early spring.
What seems to be happening is the stand-alone is near completion and might evolve into a series, while I’m having to dig really deep for the sequel.
So on the one hand, I feel accomplished, while on the other it’s a struggle
I’ve published several stories on medium.com and The Weekly Knob. One story for TWK won a prize (“Feuds,” https://theweeklyknob.com/feuds-4291ed9be3ed). An orphan, at age 19, learns she has a grandmother she never knew about. She has to decide whether she can forgive her for all the years of neglect.
I’ve submitted three crime stories to print publications.
I continue to edit and revise the backlog of stories I’ve written over the past few years. I’ve got a possible novel started, but I may not know enough about its world to actually pull it off. Makes me contemplate the joys of fantasy with the freedom to create my own world.
After half a year of false starts, I’ve undertaken the Ray Bradbury “52 short stories in 52 weeks” challenge… Two stories down, only fifty to go. 🙂 It’s been invigorating and educational. I’m posting them and documenting the process on my blog, but at the end of the challenge, I plan to compile an ebook containing every story as well as my journal entries.
Sold one novel, JANE’S BABY (April 2018). Agent rejected another novel from a new series that I still have hopes for, says it needs x, y, z before she’d consider submitting it. Fixing x and y, don’t want to change it for z (totally changes the novel), so I might look for a publisher on my own because I like it the way it is. That’s the way we’re rolling for this one, says this hopeful but probably woefully naive novelist.
After getting 3 books out in 2016, I’m taking it “easy” and have one novel currently with my editor, just getting started on a novella, and have put 4 audiobooks up for sale. I also did some research: a week on a Caribbean cruise and a week at a cattle ranch.
I published a novel in both eBook and paperback formats, along with three novelettes during the late spring and early summer.
I’m working on the sequel to the published novel now, plus a stand-alone novel. My goal was to publish the sequel in the late fall, and the new stand-alone in the winter or early spring.
What seems to be happening is the stand-alone is near completion and might evolve into a series, while I’m having to dig really deep for the sequel.
So on the one hand, I feel accomplished, while on the other it’s a struggle
I’ve published several stories on medium.com and The Weekly Knob. One story for TWK won a prize (“Feuds,” https://theweeklyknob.com/feuds-4291ed9be3ed). An orphan, at age 19, learns she has a grandmother she never knew about. She has to decide whether she can forgive her for all the years of neglect.
I’ve submitted three crime stories to print publications.
I continue to edit and revise the backlog of stories I’ve written over the past few years. I’ve got a possible novel started, but I may not know enough about its world to actually pull it off. Makes me contemplate the joys of fantasy with the freedom to create my own world.
After half a year of false starts, I’ve undertaken the Ray Bradbury “52 short stories in 52 weeks” challenge… Two stories down, only fifty to go. 🙂 It’s been invigorating and educational. I’m posting them and documenting the process on my blog, but at the end of the challenge, I plan to compile an ebook containing every story as well as my journal entries.
Sold one novel, JANE’S BABY (April 2018). Agent rejected another novel from a new series that I still have hopes for, says it needs x, y, z before she’d consider submitting it. Fixing x and y, don’t want to change it for z (totally changes the novel), so I might look for a publisher on my own because I like it the way it is. That’s the way we’re rolling for this one, says this hopeful but probably woefully naive novelist.