Hey Everyone!
I have returned from beautiful AUSTRALIA! One month, several cities and lots of amazing experiences.
In Australia, I’ve learned something remarkable and unexpected:
Kangaroos and Koalas are overrated assholes.
The CUTEST animal in Australia is actually the QUOKKA. Here’s one for you.
I named her Epiphany.
Quokkas are ADORABLE and they’re everywhere in Rottnest Island. So if you’re ever in Western Australia, make sure to drop by 🙂
But enough about the cute Quokkas. It’s 2016, people!
Apart for some shitty stuff (like the passing of David Bowie and Alan Rickman), I’m hoping this will be a good year. And with every great year, we get some great goals!
So what are your goals for 2016?
Mine are simple: Publishing a few books without losing my mind.
who am I kidding? I lost my mind long ago…
I will learn more about marketing, and stick to a real writing schedule.
Those are awesome goals, Mike! I’m kindda failing on the second one -_-
Well, welcome back! Your vacation sounds like it was wonderful, except for a few marsupials. I’d like to lose a few pounds in 2016, and write an epic song. Maybe a song about koalas and kangaroos, but I’m not quite sure. Hey, there was a song about muskrats, so why not marsupials???
OMG can write the QUOKKA SONG with you? It’s gonna be huge, I tell ya!
Rocka Quoakka? A duet? I’m all in!
omg. omg.Seriously, stop everything. Rocka Quokka. It’s going to be legendary.
Epic! Marsupial Mayhem! Words…must find the right words……
Quokka,quokka,you’re so…loca! haha I don’t know.
Hmmm. I thinking something like Rock the Casbah, except Rocka Quokka.
That little guy is soooo cute! As for goals, I don’t have anything specific, just work hard at improving myself, not sure what ways though. Welcome back!
That’s always a great goal. Always 🙂
Just for starters, OMG! I love your new banner. It is gorgeous!
Goal 1: Read no less than 24 books this year. Normally, I read at least 1-3 books a month, but I read only 15 last year. I did read a ton of short stories and I wrote my own, but still. I need to make sure I am reading more.
Goal 2: I am publishing 2 books this year. Atlas is already in the editing (Alpha Reader) stage, so I have that going for me. I have a project in April that I am pretty excited about and I hope to have that out before the end of the year.
Goal 3: Finish writing the Infinity Verge Series. I have Kodiak available, Atlas as I mentioned, but I haven’t even started Chapter 1 of Ursidae.
Goal 4: GET BETTER AT MARKETING! I have already started towards this, but yeah, need more marketing skillz!
Yay, new banner was also a goal! We share number 4, by the way. Mktg is so hard -_- Anyway. You’re gonna have a seriously busy year!!
I know, 🙁 I think it will pay off in the end, but man I am pretty excited. Plus when I am not working on the IV series I am working on my fantasy novel. I try to write at least 1k words a day.
Awesome! : D
Wow, Australia?! How exciting! Looks absolutely gorgeous, and I’m glad that you had a good time.
As for my goals for this year, I plan not to hold back from traveling more, meeting and getting to know new people along the way. Travel goals, ftw!
I want to get my prequel “Crimes & Impunity in New Orleans” finished an published within the next 6 mos. For some reason, I am having the same issues I had with my debut novel. I think about it a lot, but haven’t started writing, except for a couple ideas about the plot. I have 30 or so pages written because I originally planned to have my protagonist in New Orleans before going to El Salvador. I ended up with her stepping off the plane in ES instead.
Peace,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc
You fell for the old Quokka trick. Don’t worry, millions of tourists to Australia fall for it too. Quokkas are actually little children in furry costumes paid a dollar a day. (The revelation was removed from Wikipedia.)
My goals for 2016: become extremely famous and stop telling lies.
Loool!
Welcome back from the land down under!
Hi C.S. I found your blog via Opinionated Man so I wanted to come by say hey and check out your blog. I’ll be on the lookout for your posts. ~Steph
Hi there… From Sydney, Australia. I live right next to the beach in Coogee. Glad you downunder. The worst thing is being so far away from the rest of the world.
Oh that area is beautiful! I did the cogee to bondi walk, it was amazing!
I want to tackle some new categories
– fantasy
– science fiction (come on, I tell myself, you’re a SCIENTIST, you can write sci-fi!)
– short short fiction (wrote my first 100-word flash story yesterday, it’s a start)
Exciting stuff. Now I need some deadlines…
Cool!! : D