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Inspired by MasteryGirl's latest book launch yesterday afternoon, yesterday morning I took myself to Le Wholefood Merchants café, to do some writing planning for 2018. This, of course necessitated, a new notebook, and new pens. Every new project needs new stuff like that. Which is why I have about 20 notebooks with 10 pages filled out.
All my new textas were pink and purple, because I was in that sort of mood. I even bought the Barbie-pink texta.
My new notebook is dusky pink with a gold pineapple on the front. It's very stylish, in a girly way.
So, I have three rewriting projects for 2018.
1. The spiritual memoir, which was dubbed, at the end of 2016, both 'witchy memoir' and 'how to be a new age wanker'. I thought they were separate projects They aren't. Last week I got chatting to a lass on facebook, in the Melbourne NaNo group, and she does book covers as a hobby. She offered to come up with a few for me, so I had to think up a title, lickety split. The working title is now 'In and Out of the Cauldron'. I'm not sure about that, but it's better than 'confessions of a witch'. I aim to have to offering to pro publishers stage by the end of 2018.
2. Children's books. A friend reminded me that I have 3 children's books I wrote circa 2002, when TwentiesGirl was in primary school, around Grade 3-4. Her friends enjoyed the books, and I thought little more about them. Prompted by this friend, and the interest of MothraBabe, I'm now looking these short books out. Rewriting, spiffing up, and out into the world they will go.
3. The short story collection, which now has the working title of 'The Communicant, and Other Stories'. That's in process with CDX Design. Launch aim date approx. March-April 2018.
Then there's new writing. To keep going to memoir group, I need to have memoir things written. I need to start something new, as I'm still not ready to tackle the rewrite of the TwentiesPerson memoir. I have the choice of writing stuff that is so hard, and so secret that it will never be a publishable thing, and a lighter(so I suppose) account of what I know of my mother's life, which is already titled 'What Lila Said'.
I want to participate in NaPoWriMo in April, too.
Writing all this down like this, I feel my stomach knot, and my mind whirl, and the panic set in. Too much, too much. Yet, if I take it slowly, and ask for help, I might just come through 2018 with at least 2 new books in the world, and a third with publishers. Plus new poems, and a memoir project done.
And retain my sanity.
It would make me feel really good to have done all this, and not copped fibromyalgia flare-ups, anxiety, or sleeplessness from the stress of what I'm going to attempt.
So, help I shall need. This means you, PizzaBoy, MotorCycleMan, MasteryGirl, OopsIHadABaby, SnakyPoet, and many others whose handles I can't remember off-hand(somewhere on my computer is a list of all your handles).
Please, please, help me get safely in and out of my shell.
All my new textas were pink and purple, because I was in that sort of mood. I even bought the Barbie-pink texta.
My new notebook is dusky pink with a gold pineapple on the front. It's very stylish, in a girly way.
So, I have three rewriting projects for 2018.
1. The spiritual memoir, which was dubbed, at the end of 2016, both 'witchy memoir' and 'how to be a new age wanker'. I thought they were separate projects They aren't. Last week I got chatting to a lass on facebook, in the Melbourne NaNo group, and she does book covers as a hobby. She offered to come up with a few for me, so I had to think up a title, lickety split. The working title is now 'In and Out of the Cauldron'. I'm not sure about that, but it's better than 'confessions of a witch'. I aim to have to offering to pro publishers stage by the end of 2018.
2. Children's books. A friend reminded me that I have 3 children's books I wrote circa 2002, when TwentiesGirl was in primary school, around Grade 3-4. Her friends enjoyed the books, and I thought little more about them. Prompted by this friend, and the interest of MothraBabe, I'm now looking these short books out. Rewriting, spiffing up, and out into the world they will go.
3. The short story collection, which now has the working title of 'The Communicant, and Other Stories'. That's in process with CDX Design. Launch aim date approx. March-April 2018.
Then there's new writing. To keep going to memoir group, I need to have memoir things written. I need to start something new, as I'm still not ready to tackle the rewrite of the TwentiesPerson memoir. I have the choice of writing stuff that is so hard, and so secret that it will never be a publishable thing, and a lighter(so I suppose) account of what I know of my mother's life, which is already titled 'What Lila Said'.
I want to participate in NaPoWriMo in April, too.
Writing all this down like this, I feel my stomach knot, and my mind whirl, and the panic set in. Too much, too much. Yet, if I take it slowly, and ask for help, I might just come through 2018 with at least 2 new books in the world, and a third with publishers. Plus new poems, and a memoir project done.
And retain my sanity.
It would make me feel really good to have done all this, and not copped fibromyalgia flare-ups, anxiety, or sleeplessness from the stress of what I'm going to attempt.
So, help I shall need. This means you, PizzaBoy, MotorCycleMan, MasteryGirl, OopsIHadABaby, SnakyPoet, and many others whose handles I can't remember off-hand(somewhere on my computer is a list of all your handles).
Please, please, help me get safely in and out of my shell.
