Making lists IS sane! I've gotten so disorganized lately that I haven't even managed to do that. And believe me, I am the Queen of Unfinished Projects.

I've got an adult novel beta-read and 95% finished, an MG currently being beta read and also 95% finished, three started-but-never-finished YAs (including one with a Dad so much like the one in The Shape of Water that, at the very least, I'll have to change his religion), two memoirs in perpetual states of revision, a collection of short stories, and a MG/YA I'm hoping my agent will soon send his first edit of. My writing resolution for 2011 is to finish the adult novel and almost finished MG -- and get SOMETHING published! But that goal is in the lap of the gods.

Happy 2011 to you and your family!

I usually work on a couple of things as a time...but only when I am drafting. I am amidst revision right now and it is all I can do to keep anything in my head.

At all.

I will be glad when this one is finished.

Good luck on your books!

Shelley

What is a beta read? Remember, be patient with me: I hang out in libraries, grade papers, do laundry and read some blogs - I'm not too up on anything (really, just ask my kids)

But happy 2011 to you and yours, Mary!

Drafting is fun, Shelley. You really can just start tons of stuff. Revision is when I need to focus. Then again, I wrote "Shape of Water" after an agent contacted me about turning a story into a novel - I couldn't focus on the story, so I just kept writing chapters for Shape. Writing habits are so weird, aren't they?

I have three half done projects, not five, but otherwise I'm right with you. It's time to finish instead of doing the interminable tinkering, and define -- er, identify -- a few of those flabby muscles.

Happy 2011! That's a hilarious picture--I love that your daughter is obviously having fun having her picture taken, and your sons are just as obviously, well, not. :)

Good luck with your goals in the new year! I need to sort through my own goals and figure out what I can realistically accomplish too.

That's an ambitious list.

I can only keep track of 2-3 projects at a time.

Happy New Year!

Three is a lot to keep track of, Marcia. I'm working on two simultaneously, but three gives me panic attacks. I just tinker with the other three.

Emma is a young 12, K.C. And her brothers put up with someone resembling me doing things like stopping T ball parades to take pictures so they're more exhausted by their mother's photo shoots.


And realistically and accomplish need to learn to live in the same sentence with me...

Happy New Year, Medeia! So far, no one has said they can only do one project at a time, so maybe I'm not as nuts as I seem.