New Year, New Goals
It’s a new year. Happy New Year. The holidays are over and that means it is time to get back to work.
I took some time away from productive writing and editing to deal with the holidays and family issues. I did, however, free-write, which lets ideas flow.
This coming year I want to finish editing and publishing both my noir and thriller. As a byproduct, I want to move off of Blurb, which is too expensive.
I want to write either the start of a space opera or something humorous. I’ve been writing too much “serious” stuff. I need to get back to my strength, as it were.
I also want to get better at writing descriptions. I’m great at dialog, but my afantasia makes descriptive text a chore since you have to envision what you write. I steer away from descriptions because they tend toward telling and because of my weakness. I want to get better at descriptions. Practice is the best solution.
Wanting to write a space opera made me realize I need to world-build. A quick search provided lots of articles but no tools that were free, so I’ve decided to add world-building into my app.
Of course, there is also NaNoWriMo and maybe the Creatures, Crime, and Creativity conference to look forward to—assuming COVID allows.
At least, that’s the plan.
Monday, I dive back into editing and rewriting the noir.
Word up!