I've been thinking about my goals for this new year, 2009. I don't want to make any resolutions--they always come across as negative and things you're *not* going to do like smoke or overeat. No, I think goals are much more motivating.
One goal is definitely to finish my cozy mystery manuscript, make revisions and get it circulating with agents. And the sooner the better.
My other goal is to learn. I want to take some good books off my shelf and really study them--do the whole underline in different colored magic markers thing. I want to try "modeling" as described in Elizabeth Lyons' book Manuscript Makeover. And writing riffs from the same volume.
Once and for all I want to see, inside out, how accomplished authors put their books together. Then I'm going to use that knowledge to write another one of my own.
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About Me
- Peg Cochran
- I'm a "Jersey" girl on exile in the wilds of Michigan! I'm also a cozy mystery writer with two new series coming out in 2012 and 2013 from Berkley Prime Crime--the Sweet Nothings Vintage Lingerie Series written as Meg London and the Gourmet De-Lite Series under by own name Peg Cochran. First in that series will be Allergic to Death.
2 comments:
Hi Peg,
I'll have to try Manuscript Makeover. I didn't realize there was one I missed. LOL
Dianne
I didn't make any either. I can usually recycle all my old ones since they never get done - lose weight, exercise more, get published.
I did make monthly goals, though. It does me good at the end of the month to see if I accomplished any. Sometimes I can actually cross one off. It's more like a to-do list, I guess.
And I do have two novels to get finished and circulating on the list, too! At least one of them this year.
I've tried to take bits and pieces from my how-to-write books and just use what works for me. Someday, WHEN I get a novel published, I can maybe write my own!
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