2013 was a heck of a year for me, writing-wise.
I saw my first book published, and then the “Complete” (for now) series of that same book.
I wrote my first ever stand-alone book – which was a big challenge for me.
I started a new series, an actual contemporary romance (another first), and the first book was published in December, with another due in February (then July, October, November and December again).
I have been published in three very different anthologies – women’s history, horror, and motherhood stories.
I went on the radio once, and classed up the show by declaring “I’m a whore” on live radio. I’m awesome that way.
I challenged myself to write 500,00 words – and succeeded in writing 413,286 of those words.
I had ups and downs and some pretty major struggles, but it was a good year.
Now it’s 2014, and as I’m sitting here with my leg in an air cast after foot surgery, and many words already under my belt for 2014, I realized I haven’t yet declared my writing goals and aims for 2014.
- I’ve challenged myself to write 600,000 words in 2014. (41,631 WC so far)
- I will finish books 4 & 5 of the Dominion Falls series and submit by February 8th (4 is done, 5 is at 36,343)
- I will fine-tune and perfect Leap (Hidden Senses #.5) for publication. (1 edit round done. W/ an editor now)
- I will build my audience and work harder at promotion.
- I will find focus (see below), and figure out how to USE it.
And for those that don’t know me, I have an attention problem. I jump from project to project and lack focus. I have about 6 books started that I’m currently working on – and probably 3-4 that I started and back-burnered. In my attempt to focus, I’m going to post those books, projected word counts, and try to work my way through them over the course of the year.
- Runaway Train (Dominion Falls 5) – 100k (36,343 complete)
- Stalled Independence (Lake Point #3) – 30k
- Into a Mirror Darkly (Morgana Chronicles 1) – 100k (~10k done)
- Witch Way (Lake Point #4) – 30k
- A Thorough Thanksgiving (Lake Point #5) – 30k
- The Wolf (The Tribe #1) – 100k
- Natural Selection – 40k
- Hybrid – unknown…going to do as “Chapters” not full length novel.
- The Dead Past (Dominion Falls 6-temporary name) – 100k
- The Chief (The Tribe #2) – 100k
- The Raven (The Tribe #4) – 100k
- Escaping Humanity (Co-authoring w/ Mary Terrani) – 100k
Obviously I don’t know that I’ll finish them all in this year – but I’m going to make an effort to work my way through them. I have several stories on backburner (Like Ice Age, Broken Windows and Hex Ranch) that I also dream of approaching, but I have to focus for a change and do one book at a time. Especially since I already have ideas for carrying my contemporary holiday series into 2015!
All right. My goals are out there – it’s time to get back to it! Runaway train is 1/3 done now, and I have lots of words ahead of me!
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