Ashley Crookham's Writing

Editing is tiring. Half of my brain is dedicated to the theater of my story. The other half is jealous because it has to perform daily tasks. I feel like I’m on autopilot, but the autopilot isn’t set for a conscious destination.

My writer’s group met yesterday and we discussed goals for our group for the year. The following is a list of my own goals for the year. I’ll be re-posting this every month or so to keep myself on track.

November goal: write 50,000 words
December goal: finish writing book to The End
January goal: go back to each chapter and add setting, change a bit of story line I want to add post-writing, and fill in gaps where I wrote “Fix”
February goal: polish words choices, make lists of character descriptions to make sure they are cohesive/ not overused
March goal: ready for publishing. send to first publisher outline fairy tale short story project for anthology
April goal: Camp Nano. write fairy tale short story
May goal: edit fairy tale short story
June goal: outline short story for contest of choice. send novel to second publisher if have not yet heard back from first
July: Camp Nano. write contest short story
August: edit contest short story
Sept: prep short story for publish
Oct: outline my next novel. self publish first novel if have not heard back from two attempts at publishers
November: Nanowrimo write 50,000 words of novel
December: finish novel to The End. market first Novel