I also used to do New Year's resolutions, but have stopped doing it, because I learned that I sometimes have a hard time controlling what will happend to my time, when opportunities sometimes litteraly gets dropped from the sky and I just have to catch them.
My previous "My Year Of"-blog entries can be found here (some of them in Swedish):
2009 - Året då allt ska hända!
2010 - Året då allt kommer att hända!
2011 - Men var lite stolt för fan!
2012 - The year of new beginings!
2013 - Let's draw!
2014 - A year of reaping the fruits
2015 - The year of new challanges!
2016 - Time to evolve!
2017 - My year of fulfilling my dreams
This year will be epic, both career-wise and personally. I am sure I will remember 2018. Here's why:
- Career:
My mangas Mjau! and Sword Princess Amaltea will be released in 4 countries (USA, Germany, Italy and Czech Republic) all through the year. I will be travelling a lot and visiting events in each country to promote the mangas. - Personally:
My bf and I will build our own house, by hand. More info and photos to come...
The German and Italian versions of Sword Princess Amaltea is already out! Here's the German one:
Thus, my year will be filled with travelling, bulding, travelling, building, travelling... and even more building!
This is my plan:
April:
Part time work at Serieskolan (the comic art school where I teach every week) while demo-ing the old house.
Finish a short comic for an anthology project, while working on Nosebleed Studio's upcoming second "how to make manga"-book.
✿ 27th of April: Sell books with Nosebleed Studio at J-popCon in Denmark.
May:
Part time work at Serieskolan while finishing the demo of the house and start preparing the base.
Release my watercolor manga Sjöjungfrun Minna and the free manga magazine Every Girl Is A Hero at Stockholm International Comics Festival (more about the project in an upcoming blog entry), plus working on Nosebleed Studio's "how to draw manga"-book.
✿ 5-6th of May: Sell books with Nosebleed Studio at Stockholm International Comics Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.
✿ 10-11th of May: Sell books with Nosebleed Studio at KodachiCon in Lund, Sweden.
✿ 17-20th of May: Sign books at Zanir's booth at AnimeFest in Brno, Czech Republic.
June:
Part time work at Serieskolan while finishing the base of the house and hopefully start with the wodden frame.
Some more work on Nosebleed Studio's "how to make manga"-book.
✿ 19-20th of June: Visit Armenia to do workshops as part of the Every Girl Is A Hero-project.
July:
Summer break for classes at Serieskolan, so we will work full time with the house. Hopefully finishing the wooden frame, and possibly the roof too.
Hopefully releasing the Nosebleed Studio "how to make manga"-book at NärCon Sommar.
✿ 5-8th of July: Sign books at Tokyopop's booth at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, USA.
✿ 26-29th of July: Sell at NärCon Sommar in Linköping, Sweden.
August:
Summer break still, but school starts at the end of the month so we will try to work as much as possible with the house. Hopefully finishing the roof AND the walls with exterior siding and all.
✿ 3-5th of August: Sign books at Pyramond's booth at Animagic in Mannheim, Germany.
September:
Part time work at Serieskolan while hopefully start work on the inside of the house, starting with the clay floors.
✿ 27-30th September: Sell books with Nosebleed Studio at Gothenburg Book Fair in Göteborg, Sweden.
October:
Part time work at Serieskolan while working on the inside of the house; interior walls and bathroom.
Maybe some spare time to start working on some future projects...
✿ 31st Oct - 4th Nov: Visiting Lucca Comics & Games in Lucca, Italy.
November:
Part time work at Serieskolan while working on the inside of the house; bathroom and kitchen.
Maybe some spare time to start working on some future projects...
December:
Part time work at Serieskolan while working on the inside of the house; the rest... Hopefully moving in before New Years Eve, but I think it will take some more weeks, maybe even until February 2019.
Maybe some spare time to start working on some future projects...
So, as you can see, I have my whole year planned out for me! I love this! I am that kind of person, who likes knowing what I will be doing not just a week or a month from now, but preferably a year from now! I think it's partly because I am a storyteller, and good storytelling is all about planning. Without a plan, you can't fore-shadow things or make a good dramaturgy for the whole story. That is why I make these posts; it's like writing a story – the story of my own life.
Let's finish this wall-of-text-entry with the cover design for the Every Girl Is A Hero-magazine I'm going to release in May. More info soon!
Btw, this is my tenth year blogging, yaaay!
I posted my first blog entry back in August 20th 2008. So I will try to make some special entry here on that date.
✪ Thanks for reading! ✪
