The year of finishing books AND revising books

I had plans for this year. Big plans. The first plan was to try out something new and write a book about this journey. Fortunately, that plan is moving along smoothly. My other plan was to do a word-count writing challenge for every month of this year. That, too, is coming along well – so far!

But my third plan – which was to finish a bunch of books that were unfinished – has run into a setback. Namely, that certain books that I THOUGHT were unfinished were not unfinished at all! Just unwritten.

I wanted to share about what books I am planning to finish writing this year here on this blog, but I was not 100#% sure if that list was final. I DID finish the January book – GHOST Group 5 (which went through 3 drafts!) – but I didn’t have the notebook for GHOST Group 6. So I had to hunt for that notebook!

Fortunately, I found it and the other one today. Yay! But, unfortunately, I discovered that GHOST Group 6 had NOT been written! All this time, I thought I had a rough draft, like with the others, but I don’t. I also don’t have GHOST Group 8. Numbers 7 and 9 are, however, written or sort of written, but 6 and 8 are not. Alas! I really had thought they were all done.

So, GHOST Group 6 and 8 were booted from the list of books to finish this year. Instead, I will write them. I will, however, revise #5 and #6, because 5 and 6 get sent off this year, and 7 and 8 get sent off next year. I want them to be ready.

So it would seem I have 2 lists to follow for the books. One is a list of books to finish and one is a list of books to revise this year.

Here’s my list of books to finish:

January
Finish GG5
 
February
Finish writing new stuff for WIP It 1.
 
March
Finish YA novel
 
April
Finish Poems for the Grieving Heart
 
May
Finish dreams poetry book (Title??)
 
June
Finish YA fantasy novel, book 1
 
July
Finish the praying book
 
August
Finish End Game
 
September
Finish TLBTH
 
October
Finish the 365 spin-off book
 
November
Finish deaf poetry book
 
December
Finish FWTW

Here’s the list of books to revise:

GHOST Group 5: March
GHOST Group 6: April
Vampire novel: May-July
Finish revising haunted houses book by: August

So, that’s my plan. Finish revising books AND finish writing them! I hope I can get it all done so that I can start 2018 with new books. I will also be revising more GHOST Group books next year.

I am really glad I found my notebooks and happy to be working on the GHOST Group books again. I look forward to finishing this series and wrapping up a lot of books that I have been working on for too long.