Now that I have a variety of novels written, I thought I’d better schedule when I was going to edit them. So today I made a list of the rest of the year month by month. I won’t get to all of them this year, unless I double book myself (which might happen, I’m fond of multi-tasking).
Here’s what I came up with:
January:
- edit Freedom (not going to finish this month, but I’ve made significant progress … even though now I see this needs a rewrite. Argh.)
- snowflake my FebNoWriMo story (Test of Time) . I got to step 5 so far, I might jump ahead and start outlining just so I have what’s in my head down. (see sidebar for the Snowflake Method). If you want to participate in FebNo, go over to NaNoPubYe (see sidebar) and sign up.
February:
- write Test of Time
March:
- get caught up on the 2 Year Novel (2YN) class I’m taking over at Forward Motion (see sidebar for link) . The story is called Tachyon People.
April:
- edit Clan Twelve
May:
- participate in the Story A Day challenge over at Forward Motion
June:
- snowflake a story for JulNoWriMo. NaNoPubYe had one last year, and there’s another site just for this which I never did much with.
July:
- participate in JulNoWriMo.
August:
- participate in the Labor of Love challenge over at FM. The idea is to write as much as you can in one week.
- get caught up with Tachyon People and the class.
September:
- edit The Vacation Game
October:
- snowflake a story for NaNoWriMo
November:
- NaNoWriMo!
December:
- edit Double Cross
This will most likely not happen in exactly this way, but writing a schedule feels freeing. I don’t have to worry about when my novels are going to get edited anymore.
January 30, 2007 at 8:04 am
Looks like an ambitious schedule.
ambitious: (am-bih-shus) adj. 1) More than I’d want to do. 2) WAY more than I’d want to do.
After sixteen years of doing this full-time, I’ve finally discovered down time keeps you healthy, and have scheduled weekends off. You may not need weekends, but try to be nice to yourself sometimes.
Have fun, write well, and I’m cheering for you.
January 30, 2007 at 9:42 am
Eh, when I’m not having fun I take a day off. Watering the yard usually does it for me.
Thanks for the cheering. I’m honored.