Writing Goals For 2015
Now that it’s almost February, I suppose I should decide on what writing goals I want to accomplish in 2015!
-Write 800,000 to 900,000 new words.
I would like to do one million words in a year, but realistically I don’t think it’s possible at the moment. 800,000 to 900,000 a year seems to be the current sweet spot.
-Write three new GHOST EXILE books.
-Write three new FROSTBORN books.
-Write one new tech book: WINDOWS 10: 101 TIPS & TRICKS.
-Write MASK OF DRAGONS.
-Start bundling short stories into four-pack omnibus editions. For a while I dithered about doing omnibus editions of short stories, but I could never get the covers right. Then I saw that some other writers were doing omnibus editions by shrinking the covers of four books down to 400 x 600 pixel images and then combining them to form the usual 1600 x 2400 image. When I saw that, a light went on. So I’ll start making omnibus short story editions later in this year.
-Get up to at least 30 of my books available in print. Right now I’m at 19.
So those are my writing goals for 2015. It will be interesting to revisit in January 2016 and see how many of them I reached!
-JM
Impressive. Do you write full time? If you have a full time day job too, then amazing, and tell me how you do it.
I don’t write full-time. Typically, what I do is write for a block in the early morning before work, over my lunch hour, and then in the evening after dinner. If there are other blocks of time open during the day (my full-time job involves appointments and a lot of time in transit) I try to seize them, but that’s not always reliable. So my day to day word count can vary wildly, but I always try to hit at least 3,000 a day when writing a new project.
Thanks – Your story’s inspiring. I manage some of this with my own writing, but 1,000 to 1,500 words. I guess I have to build up my writing muscles more.
Yeah – it takes practice, I think. I couldn’t have managed this pace 10 or even 5 years ago.
I suspect it’s like making cakes from scratch. The first time you do it, it takes forever. By the hundredth time, you can go much faster, and the end result is a better cake than your first attempt.