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Post by dragonwriterhp on Dec 21, 2020 12:34:15 GMT -5
WriYe 2021
Dreams don't work unless you do... You've found yourself in the dragon den where books are hoarded like gold. This year I'm focusing on the next step of my publishing journey -- finishing edits and querying to get an agent. It's time to treat my writing like a job if I'm going to make it one. Signing with an agent is my real goal for the year, but since that is out of control these are the goals I'm aiming for. Writing Goals
1. Write 300k 2. Handwrite 300 pages in Glass Roses for Luddite Challenge 3. Finish 4 novels
Editing Goals
1. Metamorphosis to final draft 2. Dracokin to final draft 3. The Pirate and the Siren through second round edits 4. Death's Game through first round edits
Publishing Goals
1. Write query for Metamorphosis and send to agents 2. Write query for Dracokin and send to agents
Life Goals
1. Read 52 books 2. Pay off 25% of debt 3. Make healthier choices
Quarterly Plan
Q1
1. Finish Dracokin 2. Write query for Metamorphosis 3. Apply to Author Mentor Match 4. Second round edits on Metamorphosis 5. First round edits on Dracokin
Q2
1. Write The Pirate and the Siren 2. Third round edits on Metamorphosis 3. Second round edits on Dracokin
Q3
1. Write Death's Game 2. First round edits on The Pirate and the Siren 3. Third round edits on Dracokin 4. Send query for Metamorphosis out to agents
Q4
1. Write Firebird's Daughter 2. Write Metamorphosis Book 2 3. Second round edits on The Pirate and the Siren 4. First round edits on Death's Game 5. Write query for Dracokin and send out to agents
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Post by dragonwriterhp on Dec 21, 2020 12:35:46 GMT -5
Finished Editing
Metamorphosis [85,045 / Draft 1] [81,179 / Draft 2] Faeries no longer leave changelings in cribs, finding it easier to turn humans as adults with a faerie drug known as crystal ball. Lissa hunts these faeries to protect the human race, but when she is turned into a faerie herself she finds that is the least of her worries. She has to fight for her life and find her place among the Courts by understanding the new society she is a part of. Works in Progress
Dracokin [07,413 / 85,000] People think that dragons have been gone since the Middle Ages, but they couldn’t be more wrong. Dragons still exist in the form of Dracokin, dragons in human form to keep the illusion of normality, an illusion that can be shattered at any time at will. Dracokin live away from humans in covens and when two children of elders meet at a Council gathering it sparks a Romeo and Juliet story. As they grow to accept each other, everything gets destroyed when they are faced with a coven’s desire to perform a hostile takeover of all the others. Can they fight the takeover and come back together? Glass Roses The Harvest Festival. Derek Lex has been looking forward to the day for as long as he could remember. It was the day the glass roses would show he was an alchemist and he could finally join a research team where he belonged. With a bright flare of blue though, his lifelong dreams are fragmented like the shards of his glass rose as it hit the floor. An absent-minded kindness during the height of the festivities throws Derek into an apprenticeship he never wanted with the Rose Maker, Yalani. He was the wizened old man of the town that nobody doubted had lost more than a bit of his grip on reality. When he starts accusing Derek of misplacing glass roses it isn’t a short leap to disbelief, yet another rambling of a sick mind with an unknown grain of truth. When it becomes clear that glass roses are indeed disappearing as the number of the missing escalates, Derek is thrown into an investigation to track them down. As the investigation progresses, just where loyalties lie become less clear and what Derek thinks he knows may not be the way they seem. The Pirate and the Siren [002,743 / 100,000] Inspired by this: "A pirate captain lost her arm to a shark attack: a passing selkie saved her, and gave her tattoos of kraken blood. Now she has an arm made of salt-water, that grows and wanes with the tides, and swings a cutlass as well as the original. (She doesn't sail as far these days though: she doesn't want her wife to worry.)" Works in Mind
Metamorphosis Book 2
Death's Game Firebird's Child
Inspired by the song "Firebird's Child" by S.J. Tucker.
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Post by Kandybar on Dec 21, 2020 13:44:25 GMT -5
Woo! Looking good!
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Post by galactic-pirates on Dec 21, 2020 13:51:05 GMT -5
I like how you've broken it into quarters, very organised! Also love the line about hoarding books like gold, very cool 
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Post by Tracey on Dec 23, 2020 6:31:34 GMT -5
I love how organized you are. Good luck with your goals!
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Post by Keri on Dec 24, 2020 8:31:35 GMT -5
Welcome back, Dragon! We will be sisters in ink this year, on the way to being Tor published. I've prophecized it.
Best of luck in 2021!
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Post by erin on Dec 26, 2020 10:56:23 GMT -5
i am giving you all of the pub vibes for this year! love your goals. 
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Post by lilia on Dec 31, 2020 8:28:58 GMT -5
I wish you to sign with an agent. And good luck for your other goals too
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Post by dragonwriterhp on Jan 1, 2021 0:51:34 GMT -5
Thanks for all the publishing wishes all! It cracks me up that you all think I'm organized. I'm just good at making big goals, not so good at following through. I want to change that this year though.
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Post by dragonwriterhp on Jan 1, 2021 1:03:20 GMT -5
January Goals Dreams don't work unless you do...
1. Write 50k on Dracokin 2. Handwrite 31 pages on Glass Roses 3. Write query for Metamorphosis 4. Write synopsis for Metamorphosis 5. Submit to Author Mentor Match 6. Read 4 books
January 1-3
1. Write 5k on Dracokin 2. Write 2.5k for WriDay 3. Handwrite 3 pages of Glass Roses
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Post by dragonwriterhp on Jan 4, 2021 13:29:48 GMT -5
January Goals Dreams don't work unless you do...
1. Write 50k on Dracokin [00,254 / 50,000] 2. Handwrite 31 pages on Glass Roses [0.5 / 31] 3. Write query for Metamorphosis 4. Write synopsis for Metamorphosis 5. Submit to Author Mentor Match 6. Read 4 books
Total Word Count: 489
January 1-3
1. Write 5k on Dracokin [0,254 / 5,000] 2. Write 2.5k for WriDay [0,144 / 2,500] 3. Handwrite 3 pages of Glass Roses [0.5 / 3] Total Word Count: 489 These first few days of the month didn't turn out so well, I think because my brain was still on vacation. I have started back at work now though so I'm hoping to get into a better schedule to make this next week go well. January 4-10
1. Write 16k on Dracokin [00,000 / 16,000] 2. Write query for Metamorphosis 3. Write synopsis for Metamorphosis 4. Handwrite 10 pages of Glass Roses [00 / 10] 5. Read at least 5 days [0 / 5] Query wasn't really on the docket this early in the year, but I need it for applying to AMM next week so gotta get it done. Probably going to post it up in the RMFM forum before submitting just to make sure everything is as good as it can be. I'm also going to start aiming for writing at least 15 hours a week, hoping a schedule will get me really going and treating it like a job.
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Post by Mel on Jan 4, 2021 14:44:08 GMT -5
Best of luck in 2021!
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Strike a match and hope it lasts, here's to following your own lead...
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Post by Roisin on Jan 6, 2021 18:16:26 GMT -5
Your organization is beautiful. Good luck with your goals!
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Post by Kandybar on Jan 7, 2021 12:18:20 GMT -5
I hope AMM goes well!
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Post by dragonwriterhp on Jan 11, 2021 11:15:38 GMT -5
January Goals Dreams don't work unless you do...
1. Write 50k on Dracokin [01,567 / 50,000] 2. Handwrite 31 pages on Glass Roses [0.5 / 31] 3. Write query for Metamorphosis
4. Write synopsis for Metamorphosis
5. Submit to Author Mentor Match
6. Read 4 books
Total Word Count: 2025
January 4-10
1. Write 16k on Dracokin [01.313 / 16,000] 2. Write query for Metamorphosis 3. Write synopsis for Metamorphosis 4. Handwrite 10 pages of Glass Roses [00 / 10] 5. Read at least 5 days [4 / 5]
I started to go over some of the feedback I've been receiving on Metamorphosis and I have decided against applying to AMM. I don't think it is ready so I will hold off and just start querying agents when I feel it is ready. If it doesn't work out I can always apply to AMM with it next year. As far as my word count goes, I was awful about actually building the hours of focus in so we are just going to try again. January 11-17
1. Write 16k on Dracokin [00,000 / 16,000] 2. Write 1.8k for New Moon Madness [0,000 / 1,800] 3. Focus on writing at least 15 hours [00 / 15] 4. Handwrite 14 pages of Glass Roses [00 / 14] 5. Read at least 5 days [0 / 5] We are going to try again to work the hours into my schedule and hopefully do better this time. I was struggling on a scene in Dracokin that I basically restarted yesterday so I hope this week will be better.
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