With this being the third such yearly plan post, i think its officially a tradition lol. my standard disclaimer is this is my high level plan right now, subject to change and likely overly optimistic, but still worthwhile to make and try to layout. posting about writing plans gets me excited for the new year.
here's what i'm thinking:
Nothing's Wrong With Dale: Borrowing some of my plan from last year, i need to finish my own edit of Dale, hire an editor, commission cover art, and then self-publish. I'd love to get all that done in time for december publishing, but given how long everything was taking last year, i'd settle for just pushing it over to editors by the end of the year.
Short Stories: I want to finish off Courtship Confusion and Free Piano: Haunted this year, along with at least one other new story, but i am not trying to predict what that might be lol. maybe one that's been on my shelf for a while,maybe the one i started a couple days ago, maybe a new idea I havn't even had yet, like Voluntary Sacrifice. Nothing's gonna get posted until May at the earliest.
Novella(s): I'd like to kick off work self-publishing two other Novellas: a combo naga novella (Finally Woken and Selfish) and Sacrifice. No idea how far I can get between my edits and revisions, scrounging up the money to pay for editor/publishing/cover art, and pulling together some sort of timeline for all that, but I want to get it all going so i have more self-published work out there (it'd b really cool to go to a con or something in 2026 and have a set of books to promo and not just 2 lol - not to get too ahead of myself).
Series: I want to make Sacrifice the first novella in a 6 book series, each focusing on a different deity returning to the temple with the final book about all of them coming together against a common enemy, likely focusing back on the MC from Sacrifice. I have some note sand outlines for the different stories (although they all need better titles). Currently, I was considering them being a published exclusive, but I might still post abridged version on here, especially as I work through my ideas. So for 2025, in addition to getting Sacrifice further on it's own publish journey, i want to complete all the outlines and notes, solidify the characters, etc - everything i need to start writing these stories.
Longer stories: I still want to work on planning them out and making a decision on one to start posting next, like with Dale, but I don't think that actually posting anything longer like that will happen in 2025 (see everything else i want to do above lol). Still, getting organized is important and i'm looking forward to fleshing them all out and knowing which one i'll be diving into next.
So lots of stuff i want to get into and multiple things I want to try to finish off lol Definitely overly ambitious, but its getting me excited to get to writing.
As always, my day job is extremely busy January - April and this year is no exception so new stories until that time passes.
Feel free to send in any asks about upcoming/current stories! I'm looking forward to all the exciting writing and publishing to come in 2025!
I believe this is the first year StoryGraph has included a delineation (for the whole year) in their stats of reading versus listening and boy does it tell on me! Haha I get far more listening done than sitting with the book reading.
I moved my book goal up a couple times throughout the year but never down. 100 seemed like a solid permanent goal for the year and that went well! A silly minutes listening at 666 worked out well for me, but you'll know there's no success noted about pages read. Guess that's for 2024!
THIS IS SO OUTSIDE MY NORM! Fantasy is almost always at the top of everything for me all the time and it isn't even on here! I did still have a lot of fantasy (nonfiction about folklore also got categorized into fantasy) but look at me exploring outside my shell!
I didn't keep up with rating very well and forgot to leave off rating books I'd already read. Welp. Still, some solid stuff here!
it took a while but i’ve finished everything and i think all the hyperlinks go to the correct places and the dates are all right
there isn’t an overview page on this one explaining how it works so apologies for that. i’ll attempt to do that a little here.
the planner goes from august 2019 through to august 2020. it’s got a couple of yearly overview pages, monthly pages, weekly pages, monthly reviews and a few random miscellaneous note/spare pages at the back (plus super fun number facts because we all know i’m a fan)
there are hyperlinks on the tabs that lead to the section so if you’re using goodnotes or something similar, you can use them in ‘read only’ mode.
i’ve included the powerpoint as well as the pdf this time so feel free to do whatever you want to it so it’ll suit your needs. i don’t mind you editing it as long as you please maybe don’t claim it as your own thanks.
anyway, good luck!
it would be awesome to hear if any of you are using it and please feel free to let me know of any issues or ask any questions
Soo, as some of you might have noticed I’ve been inactive for quite some time. Besides my last post I’ve been inactive for basically my entire summer break. I used this time to relax and prepare for junior year, which started last Tuesday, so I’m one week in. So far it’s very different and I’m already stressed out A LOT! Still I’ll try to include posting on tumblr into my night routine or at least schedule a few posts to keep you up to date. If you want to see moe posts make sure to follow me on Instagram where I’m usually more active.
I hope you had a good start into the academic year and always avoid procrastinating! (Guess who’s writing this post whilst procrastinating on studying)
