It’s a new year, there must be a lot of new projects, right? Not really. I have two writing goals for this year: Finish revisions of Polar Bear on the Loose (which includes finishing the How To Revise Your Novel class) and win National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November.

I’m not a very prolific or even a very regular writer. Truthfully, I’m a sporadic writer. I’ve used NaNoWriMo as a vehicle to produce first drafts. This will be my tenth year competing, and I’ve produced a 50,000 word winner every time. A winner for NaNoWriMo standards but certainly not publishing standards.

Once I get a handle on the revision process (my primary goal for this year), I’ll be sifting through the drafts for revisable manuscripts. I believe there are a couple worth the effort.

Another thing I’m doing that isn’t really a project is Morning Pages. Except I don’t always do them in the morning. I do try. The idea is to hand write three pages of the first things that come out of your head. It’s supposed to clear the slate for the day. I tried that for a while, then I shifted to doing them at the 750words.com site, then I brought them back down to my machines and kept them locally. The software I was using was unsatisfactory, so I spent New Year’s Day evaluating a replacement program and have settled on MacJournal.

Those are my 2013 projects. They don’t look like much, but I suspect they’ll be quite enough.