December’s question: In terms of your writing career, where do you see yourself five years from now, and what’s your plan to get there?
I really want to do the unrealistic thing and write where I
want to be five years from now
and not where I actually see myself. But I’m going to be really
pragmatic and not waste the opportunity talking about Hollywood movie
deals. Given that I’ve managed to publish one novel in the last five
years with the second
novel still in production, I think productivity is a bit of an issue
for me. Not so much the writing part because I write quickly. It’s the
editing and publishing that makes me cringe. Sadly, it doesn’t look like
that’s ever going to change. So I’m going to
give myself a bit of leeway and say that five years from now
I would hope to have my three novel series completed and published and
to be working on something new. I also want to try and write something
in a genre that I’m not comfortable with like romance
or historical fiction.
I make plans all the time that I often don’t follow
for one reason or another. This coming year I’m going to work on
breaking down goals into smaller tasks so that it’s not so overwhelming.
I’m hoping this will mean my productivity will
be constant instead of huge spikes of writing during NaNo months and
then nothing in between. I guess five years from now we’ll see if this plan has worked!
