did I meet 2016’s writing goals?
As 2016 draws to a close, it’s time to take stock and consider whether or not I met the writing goals I laid out in 2015.
-800,000 to 900,000 words of new fiction.
Success! I wrote about 1.1 million words of new fiction in 2016.
-Three new FROSTBORN books.
Success! In 2016 I published FROSTBORN: THE HIGH LORDS, FROSTBORN: THE FALSE KING, and FROSTBORN: THE DWARVEN PRINCE.
-Finish the GHOST EXILE series!
Success! In 2016 I finished GHOST IN THE PACT and GHOST IN THE WINDS, which brought the GHOST EXILE series to its conclusion.
-Finish the MASK OF THE DEMONSOULED trilogy at last!
Success! Both MASK OF DRAGONS and MASK OF SPELLS came out in 2016, bringing the trilogy to a close.
-Two new CLOAK GAMES books.
Success! CLOAK GAMES: SHADOW JUMP and CLOAK GAMES: SHATTER STONE came out in 2016.
-A systematic approach to print books.
It’s funny I should mention that, because GHOST IN THE PACT and GHOST IN THE WINDS have both been available in print for a couple of weeks now, and I haven’t gotten around to updating the catalog page yet. But I think this one was a success. I have a main page for print books on my site, I made 17 of my books available as trade paperbacks in 2016, and November and December 2016 were my best months for print books ever.
-More Kindle Unlimited Fix-Up Novels.
We’ll say this one was a half-success. I put out FROSTBORN: THE KNIGHT QUESTS, a compilation of some of the early FROSTBORN short stories, and originally put it in Kindle Unlimited. That said, I got completely out of Kindle Unlimited in the summer, so FROSTBORN: THE KNIGHT QUESTS is now available on all platforms.
I wanted to combine the Mazael short stories into a novel, but I never got around to it. Maybe in 2017.
-A 101 TIPS & TRICKS tech book on Linux Mint.
I didn’t do that one. The only tech writing I did in 2016 was to update my Ubuntu book from edition seven to edition eight. I wrote about half of the Linux Mint book, but I never got around to finishing it.
So I met most of my writing goals for 2016! In a few days I will type up my writing goals for 2017.
-JM