My Goals Page. If things are crossed out, they're done. If they're not, they're not.
Summer Goals:
Finish The Rising 1.0
Read all the books on my summer reading list*
Finish "Sleep of Death" 1.0
Write "Chronosingularity" 1.0
Finish YA Novel 1.0
Write 2 nonfiction pieces (rough drafts)
- 1
- 2
Revise
The Rising (finish v. 2.0)
Read through my other short stories and make revision notes
"Billy the Bellman"
"In the Details"
"A Treatise on Redemption"
Decide on a number of publications and start sending stories in
* My Summer Reading List:
On Writing (Stephen King)
Coraline (Niel Gaiman)
Beatrice and Virgil (Yann Martel)
The Elements of Style (Strunk & White)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Orson Scott Card)
Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)
Deadhouse Gates (Steven Erikson)
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
I Am Not A Serial Killer (Dan Wells)
Dreamsongs vol. 1 (George R.R. Martin)
The Next American Essay (ed. John D'Agata)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
The Maze Runner
The Graveyard Book
Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies (Brian Doyle)
My Rotten Life (David Lubar)
Hidden Talents (David Lubar)
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (David Shields)
Memories of Ice (Steven Erikson)
Make Your Words Work (Gary Provost)
The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
Sea of Monsters (Rick Riordan)
The Titans' Curse (Rick Riordan)
Dreams and Wishes (Susan Cooper)
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings (Kim Dana Kupperman)
The Art of the Personal Essay (ed. Phillip Lopate)
