Goal Check-In #3!

It’s that time again…

What Follows has been released! Funny how I originally mentioned it in my goals post at the end of last year. Since then, it’s come full circle.

In travel:

Istanbul – accomplished!
ReaderCon – accomplished!
DC and World Fantasy – nearly there!

DC is rocketing towards us faster than I thought possible. At the same time, there is so much to separate now from then: I’m involved in another show (we just had our second rehearsal) and performances are the two weekends prior to the con, and I have to finish this novel. (28 chapters down, at least four more to go!)

In writing:

One novel down
Another novel nearly done
A short story written, edited, and now published in What Follows
A short piece to the Word Count Podcast. If you want to hear me read, click the link. I start around the 6:30 mark
Another short piece for a flash fiction challenge

While those last two don’t fall under the technical definition of a short story, they count as stories that are short. Once I finish the current novel, I want to take a month or two to focus on submitting some older short stories and on writing new short stories for submission. But once I finish the damn novel, I’ll have essentially made my original goal for the year.

In write-life balance:

Well, that’s shaken up again. Did I mention I’m in another show? Turn of the Screw. My first lead role ever. The line load is insane (there are only two actors in the show at all), I just got my script on Friday, and I have to be off-book – have it all memorized – in two weeks. And the character is . . . intense.

I’m terrified.

In the span of a single weekend, the show has taken over my life. To the extent that I even missed a writing group meeting for no good reason. I hate that I’m already slipping into flighty-artist mode, but there’s no way I’d give up the show.

In conclusion: this balance still needs work.

How are your goals for the year coming along?

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