Happy New Year!!!
It’s 2012 and I must admit, I enjoy starting every year with making resolutions. I have a confession to make though. I don’t usually end up keeping them. No matter how well I have planned those resolutions or how easy those resolutions are or even how much I want to accomplish those resolutions, I seem to not do it if I phrase it in a resolution way.
So this year, I’m not going to make resolutions. This year I am simply going to have fluid goals and plans and keep myself on track with those.
My first goal is to compete in the Year of the Epic Query, otherwise (or more commonly) known as the Epic Year of Querying. Basically, my friends are I are challenging each other to finally get our work out there. My friend Danni is going to be score keeper and if you check out her blog you’ll see on the side of the page The Epic Year of Querying and all of our names with a number below them. Currently that number is 0 for all (I believe) but as we begin sending out our work, it will rise. I’m not sure if we’re going for the first to 100 queries or the first to 100 rejections, but either way, it’s going to get very heated towards the end of the year.
Personally, my first thing to query is going to be my Falling through the Threshold, a novel I have written about a woman who discovers she isn’t human when she is kidnapped by vampires. It is fully written and I am in the process of editing it right now. I just got back critique information on part one of Chapter six and I’m hoping to hand in the second half of this chapter as well as all of Chapter six next week.
My critique group, A Bitch of Writers, is going quite well. The group has gotten large enough that we separated them into two groups. We now have six members and while we didn’t have to separate the group, we all find it quicker to only have to keep track of two critiques instead of five. Four to a group is our maximum number for now. We found that four kept us very busy but any more tended to take too much time to do.
What about you? Do you make resolutions every year? What are they if you do?
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