2014 has been an interesting year. I:
- signed with an agent who’s now shopping my fiction around
- wrote a couple of short stories (writing short stories is pretty rare for me)
- critiqued a bunch of novels and had one of mine critiqued in return
- gave a workshop on story structure at the local convention which was exceptionally well received (very happy about that!)
- gave two presentations at a writers day: one on story structure, the other on blogging
- grew the Fantasy Writers community on G+ to well over 8000 members
- changed careers thanks to government cutbacks
- edited half a novel
- wrote the best part of a non-fiction book on story structure
So what does all that mean for me in 2015? It means:
- I’ll be writing and editing a lot more in the evenings/at night
- I’ll hopefully sell my first novel to a major publisher
- I should have a non-fiction book ready-to-go in the next few months that will help a lot of writers with their stories
- I still have three fiction novels that are written and need editing
- I have far too many more books I want to write.
How’d you go this year, and what does that imply for your expectations in 2015?