{"id":1529,"date":"2018-01-15T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2018-01-15T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:38:29","slug":"2018-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/2018-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for me to set my 2018 goals and this pretty much sums up how I feel:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tenor.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because the thing is I didn&#8217;t do so well at reaching last year&#8217;s goals, and this year I&#8217;d like to spend less time working, and Other Me has already set some ambitious goals and I don&#8217;t own a TARDIS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; where does that leave me?<\/p>\n<p>Well, to start I want to finish up the 2017 Goals that I didn&#8217;t quite accomplish. Goals like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finalize the Author Guide for Pen and Kink Publishing and begin distributing it<\/li>\n<li><del>Formalize the style guide for Pen and&#8211;you know what? Nah, I kinda like having &#8216;Something like a style guide&#8217;<\/del><\/li>\n<li>Edit and publish \u201cThe Longest Night\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Edit and publish \u201cThe Coolest Wife Ever\u201d now known as &#8220;The Switch&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Publish a collection\u00a0of all the \u201cShe\u2019s on the Bottom\u201d stories<\/li>\n<li>Finish writing and editing the untitled novelette\/novella? about Ben and Maggie<\/li>\n<li>Write at least one more story in the Paranormal Circus series.<\/li>\n<li>Write and share a holiday-themed story set in the Paranormal Circus series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And because I don&#8217;t want to spend this year solely focused on the things I didn&#8217;t do last year I would also like to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Successfully publish and launch <em>Magic Spark<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Successfully publish and launch <em>Magic Ember<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Successfully publish and launch <em>Magic Flame<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Successfully publish and launch <em>Triskaidekaphilia 3: Transformed<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Acquire a new project for Pen and Kink<\/li>\n<li>Write at least one short story and submit it for publication rather than publishing it myself*<\/li>\n<li>Write the next title in the &#8216;<em>Running on Empty<\/em>&#8216; serial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That looks like plenty of projects to fill a year, yeah?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tumblr_mc9rghIoPq1qbl6qfo6_250.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">*I chose submitting as my goal because that is within my control, whether the story is accepted somewhere or published is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for me to set my 2018 goals and this pretty much sums up how I feel: Because the thing is I didn&#8217;t do so well at reaching last year&#8217;s goals, and this year I&#8217;d like to spend less &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/2018-goals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goals","tag-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}