(writing) Upcoming deadlines and projects, revised

Thanks to some things this weekend, including some really good sit-downs with some friends who let me talk some stuff out (they probably didn't realize they were doing it, but thanks!), I have a renewed idea of what I want to do this year, writing/editing-wise. Here we go:

Hard deadlines:

September 2009 - deadline for stories for the Pirates and Magic anthology I'm editing
December 2009 - deadline for Last Rites to publisher

Personal deadlines:

May 2009 - Finish outline for The Velvet Box
June 2009 - Finish outline for Blood and finish The Velvet Box
July 2009 - Finish Blood
September 2009 - Do outline for Christmas story
October 2009 - Writer Christmas story

I do not think I'm doing NaNo this year, but I will be doing some content for Dept V, so that's going to be sprinkled in as well.

Now, I'm off to buy a very cool pirate hat, and then host a workshop on blogging and writing. There will be a full writeup of RavenCon later this week.

(ravencon) A new hat!

I has a new hat.  I am VERY excited. :D*



I'm done programming for today, and my next engagement (the Capclave party, which is always loads of fun!) isn't until 9 pm, so I'm taking advantage of the lull and the atmosphere to work on Velvet Box.  The sooner I can get the outline done, the sooner I can get it written and submitted!

In a completely unrelated note (well, sort of unrelated), I'm trying the rich text interface for LiveJournal on this entry.  I am intrigued.  I'm not much of an HTML person, and I might just go to this screen permanently.  I can see my pictures before I post the entry!

*yes, I plan on wearing it to events.  yes, I know it's not period.  no, I don't intend to claim it is.  there's more to life than stressing about silly hats.  and I like this silly hat.