Year 4 Fiction Goals

If you go down to the woods today… (Photo credit: c@rljones)

Year 4 Fiction Goals

To recap, I published a few short stories in 2011. I was very excited about this. Each of these stories will be published in one of three books of short stories, though each book will have many more stories as well. The stories can be found at:

The Haunted Dinner Party

“Be Careful of Those Woods”

Alone

Serenita

The Woman in the Woods

The Woods

One of these books is finished, barring a couple more edit runs, and I want to get it published during Year 4.

The second is about one-fourth complete, and I have my notes for stories that I want to add on it. This will take up the bulk of my fiction creativity this year , and I am excited to resume the project.

A third book of short stories will be worked on somewhat during Year 4, then (hopefully) finished in Year 5. This book includes stories outside my main genre, so is taking me more time than I originally thought. I am having fun with it, though.

Happy writing!!!!

Shannon L. Buck

Year 3 Wrap Up

Writing (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wow. This past year brought many accomplishments. I am pretty pleased by this. I worked hard, even though I have had to work around not having home internet, and around working a ‘day job’. The list is a good one

• I created new blogs.

• I expanded on and updated existing blogs.

• I finished my first book of short stories.

• I published quite a few short stories online.

• I started my second and third books of short stories, as well as a few nonfiction ones.

• I have come up with a list, and descriptions, for quite a few new short stories.

• I have come up with a few story lines for novels, and am getting the outlines done.

• I have learned new marketing and promotion skills, though I still have a long way to go with this.

• I have researched traditional/online book publishing.

• I am still writing blog posts for Frugal Recipes: Spending Less to Eat Healthy and Living the Low-Income Life, Keeping in contact with fans, and trying to help as many people as I can both on the blogs and through email.

• I have fans

• I acquired a couple more channels to write for on Examiner.com, bringing me to three: Bangor Single Mom, Bangor Easy Cooking and Bangor Frugal Living. All of which are useful to those outside the Bangor area, as well as within.

• Etc., Etc.

My income from writing has gone down some due to two factors:

1. Having the day job. During mid spring to the beginning of winter, this job takes up a whole lot of time. However, winter and early spring brings me a little extra time off.

2. No at-home access to the internet. I have to work around the hours of two different libraries.

As for freelance writing… I am keeping up with this, but I also want to concentrate on fiction writing. I love writing stories.

And photography… still taking photos and planning to share some of them with you all this year.

All-in-all, I am pleased with my progress over the past year. Are you pleased with yours?

Shannon L. Buck