Ah, 2010 - A New Year Begins Again

And of course most of us tend to make resolutions at this time of year. Here are mine, couched as goals rather than resolutions...

Use the Snowflake Method on any new stories I embark upon (am already doing this...)

Use the Snowflake Method on existing stories to help see where the gaps are

Enter contests - starting with The First Line, a quarterly contest that costs nothing to enter

Join the California Writers' Club (CWC)

Attend at least two writers' conferences - NCPA (Northern California Publishers and Authors) in April and the Redwood Writers (a branch of CWC) in October. Did both last year and gained a lot of knowledge and ideas!

Edit and submit two short stories written in the last year

Branch out into poetry

Participate in NaNoWriMo again

Since I now have two grandbabies, and I believe Kipling's Just So Stories are public domain, put together a book of these as told by me with photos to go along with the stories (and exercise my other artistic bent) - perhaps even create a video to go with them!

Create a book trailer for Theft by Character to put on YouTube

Purchase some ISBNs so I can self-publish (beyond the short story I have on lulu.com)

Sort out previous writings - grist for the mill or for refinement

And then, at the end of 2010, look over this list and see what I really accomplished!

(BTW, I already have my first submission written for The First Line contest...I' m letting it rest until the end of the month before I give it the final looksee/tweaks and send it in - submissions are due by 1 Feb 10 for the first quarter)

AND - Yes I do tend to dream big!!!