My New Year’s resolution last year was to get something submitted for publishing before December 31st. I failed at that goal. This year, my resolution is the same: I shall submit something for publishing before December 31st, 2008. However, this year, I have a couple of good options.

First of all, thanks to NaNoWriMo I have a novel that is 80% complete (17% complete, if you figure in all the rewriting that needs to be done). I can work on that and attempt to get it published. However, since I’ve had the time to allow the novel to cool a bit since completing my word goal November 30th, my feelings on the novel itself have cooled, as well. I don’t cozy up to the general concept I crafted in Seventeen Lies as much as I did prior to starting the novel. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think I do well at long form fiction. Maybe I need to work my way up to novels. Or at least, that’s what I’m attempting to convince myself at this point.

I’m also looking at a couple of other potential projects on my plate. I think I work better with shorter length fiction, and I have a few examples nicely packed within my Human Vacation collection that I can spruce up and submit to a magazine this year. I could also work on my children’s book, Team Bottlerocket. I came up with some more excellent ideas for that project this past year, and I love the concept so much, I find myself thinking about it now and again.

Oh, and I’m also planning to participate in Ficlets a lot more in the coming months, as well.

So, in 2008, the sky is the limit. I’m giving myself a hard deadline of December 19th (the last true Friday of December, right before the holidays) to get something submitted somewhere.

And then, we’ll see what my New Year’s resolution is in 2009.