This is the getting-ready-to-make-a-New-Year-Resolution post. See below for version 1 of this year's batch of promises I make to myself. Or in other words, how to spend time doing anything but editing my current WIP by philosophising over various matters.
Anyway, current plan for next year is: Finish editing the Gorge Creek book (NZ historical romance). You have to do this Mary, damn it. Get it finished, get it sent off and enter into the RWNZ Clendon comp - then get on to the next project you really want to write.
Currently this is a SF novel, with a broad climate change theme. There will probably be a romantic element, but it's not the main storyline. I've got a rough outline written - otherwise known as the cursed synopsis. And both main characters, the general cultural background, and the main conflict points sketched out. Very prepared for me. Usually I just write madly to find out who my characters are and what happens to them. But I need to do a lot of research on climate change and ecology to find out if my broad precept will work.
OK so that's the writing schedule done. Now to just fit in real life (ie the paid work that feeds and clothes me, and the family that makes it all work) and a couple of uni papers. Yeah, chicken feed. Watch this space for versions x,y, z and so on to the nth degree.
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