Every January I put up a blog post listing my writing goals for the coming year. At the end of the year, I check back to see how I did. That assessment is the subject of this post.

For 2020, I kept my goals to a minimum — but I still didn’t meet them all.

Here are the specifics, with the goals I set for myself in January in all-caps:

1. WRITE AND FINISH A NEW NOVEL
Done! This, of course, was Pacific Storm, published on October 8. Have you read it yet? If not, I hope you’ll check it out. Click here to read the opening chapters online.

2. WRITE, FINISH, AND PUBLISH A NOVELLA
Nope! I post this goal every year, and I never do it. Maybe next year…

3. START OUTLINING A NEW NOVEL
Done! I’ve put together a rough story-map for a third Inverted Frontier novel, and have even started writing the opening.

Two out of three — not bad. But I also accomplished two other long-time goals that did not appear on last year’s list.

• I commissioned a nice book cover for an omnibus edition of the Puzzle Land books. I really like those crazy grimdark fantasy stories! The omnibus is available from Amazon in both print and ebook editions. (paid links)

• I’ve also commissioned covers for my epic fantasy novel The Wild. I spent part of the summer and fall revising and expanding the original novel, and will be re-publishing it as a trilogy in spring 2021. Click here to read more about this project.

I’ll be posting my 2021 goals on January 1 — though I suspect you can already guess what my primary goal will be.
(Hint: see #1 above. 😉 )

Posted on: Saturday, December 26th, 2020 at 5:15 am
Categories: Annual Writing Goals.