Thursday, January 8, 2015
Setting Goals for 2015
So
it’s 2015 and time for a fresh start. It’s a time two make new goals.
For me it's writing goals. Whether I success in those goals...well that's
another matter. Last year, I had the grand idea that I would write FOUR books
in 2014.
Confession…I
did not come close.
I
finished one book BY CHRISTMAS, which I ended up self-publishing as part of a holiday box set with 13 other authors. Then I put it out as a single book. It was my
first foray into the world of indie publishing so there was a big learning
curve, meaning everything took longer to accomplish. I did have the benefit of
working with 13 other fantastic authors from this group on the box set and
learned SO MUCH.
So
what about those other three books I was supposed to complete? Book two was
supposed to be the fifth installment in my Covington Falls Chronicles series.
However, somewhere along the line it became not Book 5 in that series, but Book
1 in a WHOLE NEW SERIES. It’s set in another fictional town, only this one is
in Florida. It centers on a prized pig named Matilda
who inherits a fortune from her eccentric owner. Oh yes, there are also three
women competing for custody of the pig (and control of the money, of course) as well as a trio of sexy men who might win their hearts.
The
other two books are part of another series. This one is a contemporary
romance/women’s fiction. It’s also set in Florida (different town) and it
follows three former childhood friends who return to their hometown and become
involved in rehabilitating an old dinner theatre called The Paradise. I
finished the first book a couple years ago, but book 2 and 3 still need to be
put down on paper.
The
third idea is another series that is perhaps the craziest concept I’ve ever
come up with. My heroine is a spoiled heiress who dies and then gets recruited
as a celestial matchmaker, helping soul mates find their One True Love before
it's too late. It’s crazy and weird and hilariously funny…It is also so far
away from anything else I’ve ever written. A little scary.
So…yeah…that’s
a lot of books. And I have a demanding full time job. I don’t know how I will
possibly do them. I need a plan. I need help. I need to find that impossibly
rich tycoon so I can quit the day job and write full time.
Hmmm…okay...writing
all those books might happen first.
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