Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, or holiday greeting of your choice

[eimarra]

We're flying out of here Wednesday afternoon, and it just hit me today that this means tomorrow is devoted to laundry and packing, not writing, editing, or updates. We'll be back the 4th, but I probably won't be checking blogs until the following week.

I am taking my current pile of shorts in progress (both writing and editing), with the hope that I'll have at least a couple ready to submit bright and early in the new year. While I'm gone, I may also try to type up my WFC notes so I can finally get them all posted. But don't look for any more updates until next year.

And I'd like to also point out over on J. A. Konrath's blog, two lovely sets of resolutions, one for novices and one for professional writers. Also, the site from which I pulled it, P. J. Parrish's blog, which has a nice Christmas wish list for writers.


2006 goals:
Write 2 to 2-1/2 short stories per month on average. Submissions will probably lag a bit, but 15 for the year is the goal.

Complete and revise one novel. It would be nice to get it all the way through crit stage and out to agents, but we'll see how it works out. (Note that this is finishing one that's already started.)

Complete a second novel. (Should have multiple opportunities for this, especially with March Madness, Labor of Love, and NaNo.)

Participate in challenges on FM:
* March Madness
* April Haiku Challenge
* May Story-A-Day
* Labor of Love/Unfinished Business
* NaNo (okay, so that's not *really* an FM thing per se), including my second year of being an ML
* dares and monthly marathons as time permits
* ultra marathon (I think I came "close enough" to the marathon on FM this year that I want to push my goal upwards.)

Happy celebration of your faith, choice, or whatever! I'm hoping for a reasonably merry Christmas and a New Year surrounded by friends and family.

Comments

Happy holidays to you too

[cammykitty.livejournal.com]

I was beginning to worry about you because I haven't seen you on LJ lately although I know you've been on FM. But obviously you are doing well, & all set for a kicking 2007. Talk to you when you're back from celebrating!

thank you

[eimarra]

I was just thinking I owe you an e-mail, and I'm not sure I'm going to get one written tomorrow! Something about having both the husband and child underfoot while dealing with everything else. :-)

Work, writing, editing -- life's been conspiring to keep me away from LJ. For example, one day last week, I copyedited 60 pages of a non-fiction manuscript. (Lots of fun; piles of books for reference -- subject matter, biographical dictionary, French dictionary, English dictionary, style manual . . . ) I've got three stories in the critique phase, plus another couple I'm actively writing on. And then there's this kraken who's threatening to tear apart the hotel if I don't get back to it soon. . . .

Oh, and then there are those root canals. :P

So, yes, much busyness here. But we must catch up when I get back.