Meme: Personal/Professional Goals
Elaine of Wild Rose Reader has kindly (I think !) tagged me with a new meme - to share 10 - 15 professional and/or personal goals for the summer. Since I won't be having a summer break (see my previous post), I'm going to shift the parameters slightly to my goals for the rest of the year.
1 - Finish my series of "Doctor Who" novellas. I've reached the mid-way point (more or less) of story 6 out a projected series of 14.
2 - Write my first non-Who time travel tale (as mentioned here) for which I'm currently doing all kinds of background reading.
3 - Figure out a routine for working from home that means I earn enough to live on and still have plenty of time to write. My office hours were 7 am - 3 pm, which meant I had a good two hours (sometimes two and a half) after I got home from work in which to write solidly before dinner. I'd actually like to have more time each day in which to write - and certainly I'll gain about 45 minutes by not having to bus into town every day.
4 - Get work re-started on my study of fantasy heroines. I began this 4 years ago, but I've been waiting, in part, for J K Rowling to finish the "Harry Potter" series since Hermione is one of the fantasy heroines about whom I want to write.
5 - Watch all three seasons of the New Doctor Who series back to back - something else that *may* be more easily achieved if I'm working from home.
6 - Re-read the Harry Potter books. I had planned to re-read them all before the final book comes out, but I'm not convinced I can achieve that in the time that's left, given everything else I want to read - and all the writing I'm doing.
7 - Go to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End at the cinema - it's out, but as usual I'm broke !
8 - Read the various "Doctor Who" novels and short stories I've acquired in the last few months.
9 - Read some of the other books I've acquired in the last few months that people keep telling me are good !
10 - Finally write that "Ode to Doctor Who" that Elaine challenged me to write back in early May.
Now who can I tag ? I think I'll tag Nancy of Journay Woman and hope she forgives me !
