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rainwaterspark) wrote2024-01-10 04:14 pm
rainwaterspark) wrote2024-01-10 04:14 pm
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Plans - updated version
Now that I'm close to done with the first draft of Novel #5, I have a better idea of my plans/timeline for the beginning of the year. This is still a bit aspirational/optimistic, since it relies on me finishing my draft by the end of this weekend and finishing my edits by the end of the month, so we'll see...
End of January 15: Finish drafting Novel #5.
I may also send the rough version of Part III to my first beta reader for initial feedback.
End of January: Finish editing Novel #5.
February: Send Novel #5 to my beta readers at the beginning of the month, with the aim of obtaining their feedback by the end of the month.
While waiting for beta reader feedback, I plan on:
- Workshopping and finalizing my query letter
- Asking the author groups I'm part of for agent whisper lists or recommendations, and putting out feelers to see if I can get any referrals
- Taking a break from all this hectic drafting/revision
- Working on scheduling an eye doctor appointment and taking care of any other chores left over from last year
March: Finish revising Novel #5. Hopefully, I won't need to make any significant revisions. If that's the case, then I will finalize my query list and send out my queries some time during the month (I plan to shotgun all my queries since my list will be small).
March onward: I have no idea how long the query process will take. Possibly months. I also know I can't bank on the idea that this book will land an agent, and if this book dies in the query trenches, that process will also take months, possibly a year or more. So, here's what I plan to do:
- More relaxing. (Seriously, after writing 40k words over 10 days at the end of 2023, I think I need to step away from Microsoft Word for a while.)
- Any chores I didn't manage to do during February.
- Rereading, brainstorming ideas, and (gently, as in not rushing or grinding) revising Novel #4 in case Novel #5 dies in the query trenches.
Non-writing things I'm looking forward to this year:
- Books!
- Rebel Moon Part 1 & 2
- Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus
End of January 15: Finish drafting Novel #5.
I may also send the rough version of Part III to my first beta reader for initial feedback.
End of January: Finish editing Novel #5.
February: Send Novel #5 to my beta readers at the beginning of the month, with the aim of obtaining their feedback by the end of the month.
While waiting for beta reader feedback, I plan on:
- Workshopping and finalizing my query letter
- Asking the author groups I'm part of for agent whisper lists or recommendations, and putting out feelers to see if I can get any referrals
- Taking a break from all this hectic drafting/revision
- Working on scheduling an eye doctor appointment and taking care of any other chores left over from last year
March: Finish revising Novel #5. Hopefully, I won't need to make any significant revisions. If that's the case, then I will finalize my query list and send out my queries some time during the month (I plan to shotgun all my queries since my list will be small).
March onward: I have no idea how long the query process will take. Possibly months. I also know I can't bank on the idea that this book will land an agent, and if this book dies in the query trenches, that process will also take months, possibly a year or more. So, here's what I plan to do:
- More relaxing. (Seriously, after writing 40k words over 10 days at the end of 2023, I think I need to step away from Microsoft Word for a while.)
- Any chores I didn't manage to do during February.
- Rereading, brainstorming ideas, and (gently, as in not rushing or grinding) revising Novel #4 in case Novel #5 dies in the query trenches.
Non-writing things I'm looking forward to this year:
- Books!
- Rebel Moon Part 1 & 2
- Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus