As we approach the end of 2020 at long last, in the last week of the year I usually look back and reflect on my writing goals for the past twelve months. Did I reach my writing goals or not?<\/p>\n
Let’s review my writing goals for 2020 and see how many I completed!<\/p>\n
1.) Write a million words of new fiction.<\/p>\n
I did that. With the rough draft of DRAGONTIARNA: VISIONARY, I got to about 1,278,000 words. Which is an improvement over 1,119,000 in 2019, though I did have twenty-three days of 10k words in 2020, which definitely moved the needle forward.<\/p>\n
2.) Continue the DRAGONTIARNA series \u2013 reach book #8 or #9.<\/p>\n
I almost did that. I published DRAGONTIARNA #7 (CROWNS), and finished the rough draft of DRAGONTIARNA #8 (VISIONARY). I would have published VISIONARY this year, but I really slowed down in August\/September, partly because CROWNS was really long and complicated. But if all goes well, VISIONARY will be out sometime in January 2021.<\/p>\n
3.) Continue the CLOAK MAGE series.<\/p>\n
I did that! CLOAK OF ASHES came out in the end of March 2020, and if all goes well I should return to the CLOAK MAGE series in mid-2021.<\/p>\n
4.) Continue the GHOST NIGHT series.<\/p>\n
I did that as well! GHOST IN THE VISION came out in November, and I’m hoping to conclude the GHOST NIGHT series in 2021.<\/p>\n
5.) Reach 34 total audiobooks on Audible.com.<\/p>\n
I had planned to get to 34 audiobooks, but now I actually have 44 audiobooks available, so that went really well.<\/p>\n
6.) Pass the 100,000th copy of FROSTBORN: OMNIBUS ONE.<\/p>\n
I am pleased to report that I was able to do that at the end of February, with FROSTBORN OMNIBUS ONE my first title to pass over 100,000 copies sold.<\/p>\n
7.) THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNER\u2019S GUIDE audiobook.<\/p>\n
I was able to release that in February as well, my first nonfiction audiobook. That one title has been 7% of my total audio sales for 2020.<\/p>\n
8.) Project Colossus.<\/p>\n
“Project Colossus” was what I called the audiobook of THE GHOSTS OMNIBUS ONE, a massive audiobook that came in at 39 hours. Unsurprisingly, this was my bestselling audiobook of 2020, weighing in at 18% of my total audiobook sales for 2020.<\/p>\n
9.) Project Shard.<\/p>\n
“Project Shard” was of course the WRAITHSHARD series, which finished this month. I wanted to try releasing a new series completely in Kindle Unlimited, and it did pretty well. But I doubt I will do the Kindle Unlimited thing for new releases again, since I don’t think the KU page reads quite made up for the lack of sales on the other platforms. It also forced me to up my cover design game by a considerable degree<\/a>.<\/p>\n So of my nine writing goals, I got, say, eight and three-quarters of them. Pretty good! Especially for 2020! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n In a few days, I will go over my writing goals for 2021.<\/p>\n -JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we approach the end of 2020 at long last, in the last week of the year I usually look<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrata","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6ri-3t3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BNWraithshard05WrathBattle.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13333"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13364,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333\/revisions\/13364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}