Thursday, December 25, 2008

My 2009 writer resolutions

JA Konrath did an excellent post about "Resolutions for Writers 2009."

I love making goals for the year and last night I looked at my list for 2008. Some things I achieved, some I didn't. Here's last year's list!

If you don't want to click:

(from December 31, 2007)

* Finish two more books in the Canterwood Crest series

(Close! I finished one more CC book.)


* Get an ending on my first YA and start subbing it

(Finished YA! Decided to hold onto it and not sub yet.)


* Start a brand new MG project


(Check!)


* Break into my two dream markets--Seventeen and Teen Vogue

(Nope. Utter failure. ;) Try again this year!)

* Learn more about marketing and start promoting Take the Reins in the fall


(Definitely accomplished. I might open my own marketing firm for authors, LOL.)

*Increase blog and Website traffic


(Yes!)


* Read even more than I did in 2007

(Yep. I didn't count the books, but I'm sure I did.)


Now, for the 2009 writer resolutions:

* Learn more about book promotion
* Take a writing risk
* Write the essay I've been thinking about for seven years
* Keep blog updated
* Double blog and Website traffic
* Become a better writer
* Don't become one of THOSE writers that
Agent A and Editor K roll their eyes when talking about
* Read more in 2009
* Write more
* Do not obsess over what people will think of my books
* Break into Teen Vogue and Seventeen
* Promote Canterwood Crest to the best of my ability, but...
* ...don't become a PR wh*re. Tacky!
* Meet all of my deadlines. Early.
* Expand my writer network

There we go! It's a start, right? Share some of your goals.


1 comment:

Christina Farley said...

Oh this is a great idea! I think I'll do the same. Must think.

Counting down to Saddlehill Academy!

  Hii, friends! I'm so very thrilled to remind everyone that NEXT MONTH (!!!) is the release of my first novel in eight years! Ahhhhh!!...

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