I love lists. Lists are the only way I can get anything done. The sheer pleasure of crossing off something I’ve successfully completed/done is similar to the pleasure the chocolate and cake I devoured during NYE gave me. Guys, I ate way too much.

Anyway, I started off the year by:

• Sleeping in
• Eating more cake
• Day-drinking (I swear I don’t have a problem, I just needed to celebrate, during the day, one glass per slice of cake, OK?)
• Watching horror movies
• Doing loads of laundry (is laundry ever “finished?” Laundry is like editing: forever)
• Starting Anna Wintour’s MasterClass —which is quite shite, and little more than a Vogue PR campaign. Some of the advice is motivating, but nothing feels eye-opening or groundbreaking. At least it is short. Honestly, the best class is Neil Gaiman’s, now THAT is a fucking jewel
• Writing (OK, that I did in the wee hours, before going to bed like at 02h00)
• Editing (or at least trying to? At this point, I genuinely have nothing else to edit out of my book)

And today, the second day of the year, I went all-in for the list. A month by month planning of my writing and editing agenda. I’ll share it here just so that I can come back to it and reprimand myself whenever I fall behind since I discovered I need deadlines and etc.

JANUARY

1. Delete 1k from my sci-fi book so that I can finally query it
2. Polish my query letter. Let some people read it
3. Query when steps 1 and 2 have been completed
4. Finish writing my NaNoWriMo 2019 book

FEBRUARY

1. Keep writing TTM
2. Query, query

MARCH

1. Keep writing TTM (cuz that book needs to be finished)
2. Revise my opening pages and resume querying

APRIL

1. Keep writing TTM
2. Edit A
3. Add some scenes to the NaNoWriMo 2019 book
4. Work on a graphic novel

Update: K, so April was not my most productive month.

MAY

1. Finish writing TTM
2. Send A to new betas
3. Polish A a bit more
4. Work on a graphic novel

Update: being productive during a pandemic isn’t one of my skills.

JUNE

1. Finish writing TTM
2. Polish A a bit more
3. Finish TC
4. Work on a graphic novel

JULY

1. Read-through A
2. Start writing A2
3. Start editing TTM
4. Polish TC
5. Work on a graphic novel

AUGUST

1. Query A
2. Edit TTM
3. Keep writing A2
4. Finish writing TC
5. Send TC to betas
6. Work on graphic novel

SEPTEMBER

1. Finish writing TC
2. Finish sending TC to betas
3. Finish writing TTM
4. Rework query A1
5. Query A1
6. Write text graphic novel

OCTOBER

1. Finish writing TTM
2. Polish TC
3. Polish A1
4. Work on graphic novel

NOVEMBER

1. NaNoWriMo 2020
2. Query A1

DECEMBER

1. Edit TTM
2. Start editing A2
3. Finish NaNoWriMo 2020 draft

Let’s go.