I can’t believe February is half over before I got my goals post up for the month. Sure, it’s a leap year, but still…

How’d I start off the year?

• Get my WiP done and out to my first readers so I can stop thinking about it and concentrate on other stuff.
• Finish and submit a short story I’ve been noodling on for an anthology.
• Finish my next chapter in An Excuse for Whiskey.
• Finish editing that short story from December and get it out on submission.
• Get my short stories back out on submission.

Not great in terms of crossing things off the list, sadly, but I’m mostly okay with that. I finished two drafts of the WiP, but the book came in longer than I wanted it to be, so I’m taking another run through to tighten it up before I send it off. That’s almost done.

The short story deadline wasn’t end of January, it was February 7th. I still didn’t hit it. I like the story, it just didn’t have the right ending. There was no punch–or punchline–and it felt like something I’d done before, so I set it aside.

I reread that damned other story but then got sidetracked with more pressing projects, and didn’t actually finish my revisions.

I did keep my short fiction out on submission, as well as finishing another chapter in my collaborative novel.

And goals for February:

• Horror Con! It’s this weekend! I’m stoked. Come by Booth 502 and say hello!
• Keep my short stories out on submission
• Get my WiP done and out to my first readers so I can stop thinking about it and concentrate on other stuff.
• Finish editing that short story from December and get it out on submission.
• Work on a new novel pitch.

I always seem to forget how short February is, time to get cracking!

Write on.