What to expect in 2024
In which I cover the predictable ground of plans and goals for the year
Frankly, who knows what to expect these days? Anything could happen. But assuming my life trundles along more or less as before, these are the writing-related plans for the coming year:
5 more episodes of monologue audio sitcom Lee-Ann’s Spare Fridays, released monthly from January-May
Book reviews, since I really slacked off in 2023 and I like to think I might help you find a good book to read, and an author find a new audience
a celebratory photo in April when the Comedy Women in Print 2022/23 anthology with my shortlisted story in it arrives
a live performance in May at the Purple Room in Ben Rhydding, for which I hope to write some new stories as well as reading old(er) favourites
And that’s it, so far. Right now, I think the 2nd series of Lee-Ann’s Spare Fridays might be the last. Never say never, of course, and that doesn’t preclude one-off specials now and then, but if a 2-series run was good enough for Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, it’s good enough for Lee-Ann.
I have no writing competitions I desperately want to enter, though maybe some of the usual ones will tempt me as their deadlines draw nearer. I have no magazines or journals I’m aiming to submit to. There are no novel ideas I’m itching to start writing.
Maybe that’s a symptom of spending so much time on Lee-Ann & co. since December 2022, and after May I’ll be fizzing with new ideas and enthusiasm. I mean, hopefully I’ll have sufficient in the way of new ideas before May to give me new material for the Purple Room, but maybe after May I’ll be ready for a big new project. We shall see.
In the meantime I’ll continue to share background and making-of type of stuff for Lee-Ann’s Spare Fridays, plus book reviews and some of my own fiction. Thank you for sticking around or if you’re new here, Welcome.