Writing Goals for 2016 – First Check-In

Tweet

Phew! It’s already been quite the quarter for me. I won’t do much in the way of preamble so here’s the update:

Source

Writing + Publishing Goals:

Comic – The goal was to write a chapter per month but that fell behind due to edits and revisions. Chapter three is on its way and I hope to up production soon, minus my hellish day-job work time in May-June.

The comic goals at this point are to have new chapters published as ebooks on the below schedule:

Chapter 1 – March 1, 2016 – Crash and Burn Chapter 1 Published March 8th!
Chapter 2 – June 1, 2016 – This may shift to August 1 to align with the first print volume.
Chapter 3 – November 1, 2016


Tame the POD monster – Still planned!
Keep Anxiety Ink going – I have fallen into the crunch time posts again, instead of the ahead-of-time planned content. I will need to up my game before work gets busy.

Administrative Goals:

Set up the Crash and Burn Patreon – Done! It is here if you would like to support the comic!
Website Redesign – Still on the goals. I’m hoping to have this one done before WWC
Tidy up Twitter and tumblr – Upping my game a bit on Twitter. Still suck at tumblr.

Learning Goals:

Continue learning Japanese – Japanese 2 classes weren’t run this winter. So I will either try for Spring (if it runs) or enroll in a different academy in fall. In other news, I did all my inventory count at the bookstore in Japanese. My brain hurt for days.
Study comic book writing – Got the books but not the time XD! Learning by fire, still.
Read more – Reading ARCs as I can. Currently in love with The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley. I will be buying this book as soon as it comes out, and gifting it this year, for sure.

Things left out:

NaNoWriMo – I am getting the itch for NaNo for Camp NaNo. I like the customized goals and the sense of community…but not the progress bars, graphs, and notable end-point to the writing spurt. So I am setting up some writing dates for my own free-form commitments.
Timelines for my own writing projects – Previously posted: I’m really conflicted about not mentioning my own projects on this post. I have my spacepunk book, I have a poetry collection started, I have my cyberpunk book that is roaring back from the dead, I have my first fantasy book begging to be written because it’s complicated enough now to not be Mary-Sue-y and even if it was who cares! Write me because you love me! *ahem* My life charges rapidly and I have one fully structured project on the go at the moment. So if I can make a fiction project published and happening, I will. But it depends on all the other stuff that is above this bullet point.

I am trying to step this up. Trying to get moving and keep moving.


Tweet

The post Writing Goals for 2016 – First Check-In appeared first on Anxiety Ink.