Your BFS Lists!

Feel free to post your Big, Fun, Scary list in this thread, for everyone to read and hold you accountable. You are welcome to start your own discussion thread, just know that it's easy to lose them in this big old forum, so posting here means you'll always know where it is!

- Sell some short stories. This entails getting rejected a lot until you find an editor who won't reject you. It also requires an insane amount of editing.

- Change jobs. I'm currently a volunteer. I would rather like to get paid. If I can't find paid work, I'm going to volunteer somewhere else to shake things up.

- Screnzy. Fitting a new writing challenge around attempts to sell stories and get a better job is definitely BFS.

-Have TWO novels ready to start submitting to publishers.

-Start considering moving and get my house in shape to sell.

-Finish the darn thing!

-Graduate college. Finally. How does anyone do this in FOUR years?

-Find a job at least slightly cooler than my current one, or get full time employment with my internship employer.

-Propose to my girlfriend (shhh!)

self- publish novel

find a job/internship for summer and winter months

become a certified volunteer at a wildlife sanctuary

Screnzy

consider moving permanently to the Bay Area (?)

-Finish my first year at college

- Try and get my book published

-Find a new permanent job

- Declare my Major

Help the husband start a new business he can make more successful than the last one and make sure it's something he can work around his recent diagnosis of epilepsy. (His old business was landscaping--blades in mowers don't work well with seizures.) and NOT going insane while supporting him through this--because this something he needs me to understand he has to do. (Gotta love him.)

Get one novel fully edited for submission.

Get my house organized.

Make the big effort to turn my past novels into some serious income, part of my overall plan to become self supporting by the time Nanowrimo rolls around in 2012. This includes building up indoor sit still work along with the San Francisco Street Artist program and proceeds of my SBI website (possibly more than one by then) to where I'm doing 40 hours a week of productive activity. That includes all the business stuff and marketing.

I live on SSI and now that I live in San Francisco, I have help with the activities of daily living that I can't manage without help. So instead of falling into filth and getting sicker, I can spend my limited body energy on things that could let me make a living without earning so much I lose my medical coverage. That's the next stage.

Writing is a serious part of this plan. Writing is what I can do when my back and bad hip are too bad for me to get out of the house. I couldn't live just on the Street Art back when I lived in New Orleans because I could not get out enough days to earn a living, my health declined from overdoing it and eventually I crashed and burned. But if it's only part of what I do, it's good for a quick cash fix anytime I've got the strength.

I started off with a Big Scary Thing this year anyway. I wrote a Horror novel, something I always wanted to do from early childhood - and always chickened out on until now. What I've got is creepy, suspenseful, terrifying and it cost me several days of relaxing and coming down from the big scare just to write it - but I did it. So now the challenge is to turn that Big Scary Thing into a good professional quality Big Scary Thing that anyone who likes horror can pick up for an emotional roller coaster ride. It even has a potential for a series.

While I could keep busy on editing books all year to catch up, I may also try to get back to writing some novels during the rest of the year too. I've got my rollator coming this week, so December will also be when I get out and use my new Street Artist Program license to set up selling art on Fisherman's Wharf. That is just going to be fun. Even the streetcar to get down there is going to be a hoot and a half.

Despite my fear of all the rejection I WILL finish the novels I have started and start trying to get myself published... that is the biggy :)

-Get a job
-Get into IB

Very. Scary. D:

Write more and lots, and try to get short stories published in the local literature magazines!

Learn how to write poetry! Write poetry! Be less of a pretentious such and such than 90% of the poets out there! (already failed!)

Learn how to draw comics proper, quickly and by the end of December have something (drawing ability or script) which could be used in a webcomic!

Pass my first year of university! WHAT FUN! :D

*spoilers!* and then be a hero forever!

Use more exclamation marks!!

-Self Publish my 2009 NaNo novel

-Get work visa to stay in New Zealand

-Finish this year's novel which is a sequal to afor mentioned novel

-Finish the short stories that are gifts to little ones back home in the States.

-Go home to the United States

-Graduate college

-Go to law school

-Move to Detroit

-Set final plans for my wedding (which hopefully will be nothing like the one that happened in my NaNovel)

Well, I'm starting December off by getting married! That counts as a big, scary fun thing, I hope, seeing as I'm both terrified and ridiculously excited!

I'm going to keep doing the "write every day" thing I did this year. When NaNo rolled around, it made it so much easier to sit down and write, even if I had no clue what I was doing that day. I kicked it off last December by writing my Master's thesis, which was a blast and a half.

I'm finishing up my first Master's degree (yes, I want more than one) this spring, and I'm hoping to get into a doctoral program for next fall. Worst case scenario, though, I end up with a bit more free time than originally planned. I'll be fine if I don't get into the program.

Find a legitimate, stable job. No more waiting tables or working retail! I want something that doesn't make me seriously consider gouging my eyes out with a spoon so I have a reason to quit. This will be next to impossible, considering what my educational background is. I need a second Master's degree to get into the field I want, but I can't move somewhere with the program until my soon-to-be husband graduates from college.

-Move and get a job.

-Write at least 1-2k words a day until next NaNoWriMo.

-Participate in Script Frenzy and Camp NaNoWriMo.

-Finish at least one of my game projects.

-Start practicing aikido again and work my way back up to a skill level appropriate to my formal grade.

-edit my second novel incorporating everything I've learnt from my NaNo experiance.

- finish writing the sequel to said novel and have it beta read.

- finish writing at least one other novel I have kicking around on my computer.

-plan, write, edit, rewrite, edit and get critique of a short story for a competition in March (and hopefully win it!)

So, not much planned really!!

- Polish my NaNo novel to perfection
- Send it out to publishers or agents by the end of 2012
- Go to university

- Finish my 2011 NaNo novel.

- Thoroughly polish the novel.

- Begin the publication process.

- Plan out the remaining novels in this series (in general plot terms).

- Outline thoroughly the second novel in this series.

Believe me, this will keep me more than busy over the coming 11 months, since I've just written more fiction in 30 days than I have, quite possibly, my entire life until now.

For 2011:

-finish my novel, hopefully before the end of the year (but I'm kind of burned out so I'm taking a few weeks off)

For 2012:

-revisit a comic project I gave up a few years ago, reboot it, and write out a complete script so I can start drawing out the pages

-complete a series of paintings so I can produce a calendar for 2013. Currently there are 5-7 pictures done, depending on how you count.

-possibly begin the sequel to this year's novel, or start either of the 2 fantasy projects I have in mind.

This is for 2011, and carrying over into 2012.

- Finish editing novel.

- Work on next novel in the series.

- Go somewhere foreign.

- Find a way to visit old stomping grounds on other side of the world.

- Encourage/Force husband to come with me on such adventures, whether he wants to or not.