New Year's writing resolutions!

[Brian]

We all have them! I didn't reach my goal last year of finishing my novel. I found that having so many side projects became too distracting. I did make quite a bit of progress, but it is way too slow. I plan to focus more on my writing because all of this focus on promotion may get me more of a following but what good is it if you have nothing to really promote? I have several projects in the editing phase, so I hope to have all of those available for purchase in the near future.

What about you guys? It's a new year! Let's make it ours

[Andrew]

I want to have at least two novellas/novels out in 2015, not including the one that's in the final editing stages as we speak. And I need to blog more, maybe once a week if I can?

I had a fun 2014 pootling away on translation projects and short stories, but I need to get some serious stuff written this year.

[Christie]

I agree that I've spent far too much time on small projects and author platform. Hope you don't mind my sharing here, but I put my 5 resolutions here on my blog: http://t.co/cd39MZLsxc. Essentially, My goals are to be less afraid of messing up when I write (there's no such thing!) so that I can write far more often. I want to write everyday no matter what I write. I also want to pursue other creative activities, which will keep my brain working in a creative manner and relax me. I know it's only 5 days into the new year, but so far I'm succeeding! I'm keeping track too.

[Emma]

I don't have resolutions as such but I do have plans! I blogged about them over here in a rather unstructured fashion. The big one, though, is finishing and self-publishing the sequel to Going Home. Hopefully in late May/early June. The second half of the year is a bit more open but I'm sure something will turn up to fill those months too!

[Ben]

I resolved to do 'dry January' (no alcohol for the month). I lasted until lunchtime on 2nd Jan when a country walk with friends and the dog turned in to a long pub lunch. I also resolved to become an internationally best-selling author...

[G.G.]

Well Ben, you lasted a day! :P And good luck!

I envy you all guys. It's good to have high goals. As for me? I don't have plans. I don't keep my resolutions anyways, not even one day. Whatever happens, happens. Whatever comes, comes. I'm hoping to finish a side story I started but although I have the whole plot in mind, I never feel like sitting down and write it. :/ Another proof I'm not a real writer. :(

[Jevon]

I'm planning on finishing and releasing my novel, and a novella.

Also do more guest posting.

[Brian]

G.G. don't think like that! If you aren't excited about writing that story then maybe it's just not the story you need to be writing! Find something that inspires and excites you, then write about that. If you're not really into writing it your readers will notice.

[Wayne]

I have plans to finish the seventh book in the Tannion series and to publish the second and third in the series this year. Add that to a 45 day cruise, a tour of Cuba and a tour of norhtern South America and it looks to be a busy year.

[Christie]

Wow, Wayne, sounds amazing!

[Jevon]

Hmm... I wonder if I could do a 45 day cruise this year.

[Wayne]

All you need to do is rent out your house and never go home.

[G.G.]

Brian wrote: "G.G. don't think like that! If you aren't excited about writing that story then maybe it's just not the story you need to be writing! Find something that inspires and excites you, then write about ..."

I am excited about it. That's all I think about. I even go to sleep with it in mind and I stay awake late at night because of it. I just don't have the will to do it. As for the readers noticing something? They'd have to read it first. :/

Bah, please forgive me...I always have the blues at this time of the year. It will pass. It always does. ;)
Spring will come and it will blow away the dark clouds over my head. :P

[G.G.]

Jevon wrote: "Hmm... I wonder if I could do a 45 day cruise this year."

Not after all the passengers disappeared on yet another cruise. It's not safe anymore. :(

[J. David]

Ugh, I utterly blew it in 2014. I thought I'd have 3 books written, but I haven't even finished the one I thought would be done by last April. Terrible. I don't know if resolutions help or not, but I resolve to get at least a little done every day.

[J. David]

Ben wrote: "I resolved to do 'dry January' (no alcohol for the month). I lasted until lunchtime on 2nd Jan when a country walk with friends and the dog turned in to a long pub lunch. I also resolved to become ..."

Now I know who to have lunch with! Cheers!

[Christie]

J, maybe you promised yourself to get too much done? I find that if I over promise, I get much less done than if I focus on very achievable goals. Sometimes I even get more done that way. I think a little every day is really reasonable and will probably help you get where you're going at a steady pace.

[J. David]

Could be, Christie! I thought I was being realistic based on my previous year's productivity, but instead I went into the ditch. Lower expectations this year. ;)

[Cassandra]

I want to release 4 novels this. I think I can do it since I managed to get 3 novels and a long novella out in 2014. The other part of my resolution is much harder. I'm going to hire people to do some of the stuff that bogs me down like editing, promos, etc. I'm off to a bad start but determined I will hire someone to edit my next book and not edit behind them too much.

I am such a horrible control freak!

[Ty]

This will be more of a year of editing than writing for me, though of course I will still be doing a lot of writing. (That's my thing, of course.) But it so happened that several projects are in need of editing at around the same time, more than one of them longer projects. So I think I will spend as much if not more time fixing them up than I will writing new things.

But as they say, editing is writing, so I guess it all gets to the same place eventually.