Happy New Year, Everyone!
January 1st, 2019For the past few years I’ve made it a habit to post, on January 1, my writing goals for the year. I decided not to do that this year…and then immediately changed my mind. 🙂 This list serves as a great reminder for me of what I had in mind to do, and lets me assess what I did with my time. But I’ll keep it short!
1. PUBLISH THE NEWLY FINISHED NOVEL. I’m looking at a publication date of April 2, which gives me time to try to arrange some pre-publicity. I’m presently in the process of setting up preorders. Once those are ready to go, I’ll introduce the new book here. So check back!
2. FINISH THE SEQUEL to the novel in #1. I’ve got around 70,000 words, which is more than halfway. Hopefully I’ll have a draft by the time book 1 publishes. (Hopefully this isn’t me being overly optimistic again.)
3. PUBLISH THE SEQUEL as soon as it’s ready. Right now I don’t see any reason to do another three-month publicity blitz.
4. START A NEW NOVEL.
That’s it! Anything else will be bonus points.
In the non-writing (publishing) end of things, I’d like to “refresh” all three of my fantasy novels. The Puzzleland novels sell notoriously poorly. I really like these crazy books and would love to see them do better, so I may try to get new covers, or re-publish them together as a two-novel omnibus. My other fantasy novel, The Wild is presently unpublished. It used to be available only through my website store (now closed). I want to take the time to give it a complete read-through and then publish it at all ebook vendors.
Those are my plans. What do you have in mind?
Posted on: Tuesday, January 1st, 2019 at 10:34 am
Categories: Annual Writing Goals.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:58 pm
I’m listening to all of the Juno Reactor while having a quiet day, staying out of the cold and snow.
“High energy protons spilling into our atmosphere.” Indeed.
Google:
six day weather forecast Santa Fe NM
and see the forecast. Cold! HA!
– Cornbread is cooking in the oven now.
I’m looking at the TV series “24”. Each episode was about 42 minutes long, each followed what happened in an hour of that 24 hours. If I do a novelization of the episodes, at one manuscript page per minute, that works out to 1008 pages, or 252k, per season. Evocative.
Dan Brown writes books like Da Vinci Code where everything happens in a 24 hour period. James Alan Gardner just did two books where the events all occur in 24 hours.
– Oops, the timer is buzzing. Done. Golden.
Enjoy 2019. Things are going to get interesting, but we won’t see that until 2020 when we look back at the year in hindsight. HA!
January 1st, 2019 at 3:50 pm
The big plan for me is to finish my novel in progress and release it this year. Fingers crossed I’m about 1/3 of the way through the first draft!
January 1st, 2019 at 4:23 pm
I hope it all goes smoothly Christopher! Best of luck!