Potential 2014 projects
Nov. 29th, 2013 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calissaDecember starts on Sunday. Which means that 2014 is just around the corner. I find myself contemplating what projects I want to focus on next year. This is probably not the wisest thing, considering I've been feeling overwhelmed by everything I already having going, but I'm a sucker for the possibilities inherent in a new year.
I do this to myself every year. It is hard to resist the urge to do All The Things.
I've been kicking around a number of possibilities. Some are very easy to identify. I'll be continuing to complete my AODA Candidate year. By my current estimates, I should be wrapping up with that mid-to-late March--around the time of the Autumn Equinox.
Work on the Gold Coast Anthology will also continue. I am just now entering the phase where the work really and truly begins. The first round of edits are underway and will be heading out to authors soon. A tentative launch date has been scheduled for early May.
Things become slightly more nebulous after that. Currently on top of my priorities list is Wolfwinter and I strongly feel that this needs to be my creative focus for next year. This will mean that I will be unable to participate in the quarterly short story challenges run by one of my writing groups. I am really disappointed to miss out but I know myself too well to think that I can juggle both. I am a slow writer at the best of times and don't deal well with splitting my focus--one story or another suffers. Lately, it has been Wolfwinter that has suffered and I feel that I owe it to myself and others not to keep doing that.
Which makes my next potential project possibly problematic. I have been considering starting a blog on my editing website. This is partly in the hope that it will generate more traffic to the site and thus net me more work. But also, I'd like a place where I can dialogue with a wider community than that at DW. I suppose social media offers that to a degree, depending on the platform, but nothing I'm entirely happy with. Of course, this would mean I'll need to work on generating content and I refer you to the paragraph above. I'd be interested in some perspectives from people who maintain a professional blog.
Good thing I've got another month to iron everything out.
I do this to myself every year. It is hard to resist the urge to do All The Things.
I've been kicking around a number of possibilities. Some are very easy to identify. I'll be continuing to complete my AODA Candidate year. By my current estimates, I should be wrapping up with that mid-to-late March--around the time of the Autumn Equinox.
Work on the Gold Coast Anthology will also continue. I am just now entering the phase where the work really and truly begins. The first round of edits are underway and will be heading out to authors soon. A tentative launch date has been scheduled for early May.
Things become slightly more nebulous after that. Currently on top of my priorities list is Wolfwinter and I strongly feel that this needs to be my creative focus for next year. This will mean that I will be unable to participate in the quarterly short story challenges run by one of my writing groups. I am really disappointed to miss out but I know myself too well to think that I can juggle both. I am a slow writer at the best of times and don't deal well with splitting my focus--one story or another suffers. Lately, it has been Wolfwinter that has suffered and I feel that I owe it to myself and others not to keep doing that.
Which makes my next potential project possibly problematic. I have been considering starting a blog on my editing website. This is partly in the hope that it will generate more traffic to the site and thus net me more work. But also, I'd like a place where I can dialogue with a wider community than that at DW. I suppose social media offers that to a degree, depending on the platform, but nothing I'm entirely happy with. Of course, this would mean I'll need to work on generating content and I refer you to the paragraph above. I'd be interested in some perspectives from people who maintain a professional blog.
Good thing I've got another month to iron everything out.
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Date: 2013-11-29 12:54 pm (UTC)Awwww, you too? Sadness. We can both work on other projects (for much the same reasons) together, then. *good thoughts*
I'd be interested in some perspectives from people who maintain a professional blog.
As you know, I cross-post most of my posts to DW and, lately, LJ. I find that DW (and to a lesser extent LJ) get more exposure for me. That's largely down to how unknown I am, which is a problem you'll have to a lesser extent, and where I started, but I think the biggest issue with it is that the blog is self-hosted and even with Jetpack installed to integrate it more with WordPress-hosted blogs it just doesn't get the same kind of exposure as it might. If you want to start a blog on it, I'd suggest talking with your site designer as well and see if there's anything else you can do on the technical side of it.
Not sure if that's helpful, but I hope so. ^-^
Sounds like your year is going to be off to a busy start! I hope it'll stay manageable! *good thoughts*
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Date: 2013-11-29 09:05 pm (UTC)Do you find that your DW journal gets you much exposure from non-DWers?
And thank you for sharing your experiences. It is useful for me to hear about them :)
*hugs* Thank you. I do have an unfortunate tendency to try and do too much at once.
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Date: 2013-11-29 10:24 pm (UTC)Do you find that your DW journal gets you much exposure from non-DWers?
I'm fairly sure it gets none, to be honest, but I'm not expecting it to get a lot anyway. WordPress has a much easier and far more accessible OpenID structure than DW does.
And if you go for a self-hosted blog be prepared to deal with spam even if you invest in Akismet's spam prevention or similar.
<3
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Date: 2013-12-02 05:30 am (UTC)Hmm. I do have the capacity for a self-hosted blog but your comments have me wondering whether perhaps it would be better to have a WordPress blog and link it to my site. If I decide to go ahead.
Thank you again for sharing your thoughts :)
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Date: 2013-12-02 08:52 am (UTC)If you do decide to go ahead and you're sure you want a WP blog, I'd recommend looking at a comparison of self-hosted versus WP-hosted and see what features weigh heaviest for you since you're already paying for the website anyway.
I'm glad they're giving you something to consider. ^-^