Goal 1. Write and Publish Adult Short Stories, Essays, and Humor
- Since my last Done List, I finished the Advent project on December 25. I didn't go through the whole month, because it was an Advent projection, so it ended on the 25th. Actually, shouldn't an Advent project end on the 24th?
- Worked on three humor pieces from my December starts.
- Received a number of rejections at the end of the year.
- Had one last publication just after Christmas.
- Made my first submission of the year. So half-way to my objective of making 2 submissions a month!
- Got my first rejection of the year. Do I have an objective for rejections? Let me look. No, I do not.
- Read a number of pieces of flash fiction and humor.
Goal 2. Build Community/Market Work/Brand Myself and My Work
- Did six blog posts, counting this one.
- Promoted some of the blog posts in two places.
- Worked on two blog posts to post the week after Retreat Week. (Which is next week.)
- Worked on increasing followers on both Medium and BlueSky.
Goal 3. Submit Book Length Work to Agents and Editors
- I could have made a submission this week, but it would have been a struggle, what with getting ready for Retreat Week. I don't feel I'm being down on this experience to say that the chances of an agent being interested are not so great as to make it worth struggling. I'll do it when I get back when I don't have to struggle.
Goal 4. Play with the 19th Century Novel Idea, Which Does Have a Name Now, But is Mainly a Fun Think Piece
- I watched a couple of videos produced by the Rutland Historical Society. One of them, related to French Canadians in the area in the nineteenth century, has fired me up some more for joining Ancestry.com again. Who has time for that?
- I'm reading a nineteenth century historical mystery.
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