As we plunge headlong into 2022, let’s take a look at my writing goals for the coming year!<\/p>\n
This year I have eight.<\/p>\n
1.) Write one million words of fiction.<\/p>\n
I usually do this, but in 2021 I only made it to about 976,000, which was my lowest output in like five years. I would like to be more productive in 2022. Writing a million new words would be a good benchmark!<\/p>\n
2.) Continue the DRAGONSKULL series.<\/p>\n
This will be easy, at least at the beginning, as DRAGONSKULL: SHIELD OF THE KNIGHT is currently out. I’m not sure how long DRAGONSKULL is going to be, but I know it will be either eight or nine books. I keep dithering about whether or not I want to begin the very long process of making the series available in audio, but if I decide to do audiobooks, it will be nine books in anticipation of future bundles. If I choose not to do audiobooks for this series, it will be eight books. Either way, I hope to get between 4 to 6 of them written in 2022, but we’ll see.<\/p>\n
3.) Continue the CLOAK MAGE series.<\/p>\n
That one is underway as well – I’m 50k words into CLOAK OF IRON. I would like to get between 2 to 4 new CLOAK MAGE books out in 2022. I have exciting (well, for the readers, not so much for her) things planned for Nadia and company in the upcoming books!<\/p>\n
4.) Write a third CORMAC ROGAN mystery.<\/p>\n
I’m about a quarter of the way into CORRUPTING FIRE, the third Cormac Rogan mystery book. Once I have three, I’ll be able to advertise the series, and how those ads perform will determine if I write any more of them. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to advertise it profitably – I tried advertising the series as an experiment when there was just one book, and it went surprisingly well – but we’ll see when I get there.<\/p>\n
5.) Write the eleventh SILENT ORDER book, SILENT ORDER: RUST HAND.<\/p>\n
I will start on that once CORRUPTING FIRE is out. I would really like to write more than one SILENT ORDER book a year, but they’re one of my weaker sellers – in December 2021, for example, SILENT ORDER only sold like 44% of what CLOAK GAMES did (and 32% of FROSTBORN), and at that point SILENT ORDER had a new book released more recently than CLOAK GAMES. So it makes sense to write CLOAK GAMES faster than SILENT ORDER.<\/p>\n
6.) Finish FROSTBORN in audio.<\/p>\n
People have been asking for this for years, and I think 2022 is the year we shall finally do it! Only two more books left to record in the series – FROSTBORN: THE DRAGON KNIGHT and FROSTBORN: THE SHADOW PRISON. Since the final DRAGONTIARNA book came out on January 4th, once the final two FROSTBORN books are recorded, the entire FROSTBORN\/SEVENFOLD SWORD\/DRAGONTIARNA series will be in audio for something like 350 hours of listening from beginning to end. That would be about 14 and a half full 24 hour days of listening!<\/p>\n
7.) Finish GHOST EXILE in audio.<\/p>\n
I had planned to do more CLOAK MAGE audiobooks in 2021, but because I was writing so slowly, that didn’t work out, so we did more GHOST EXILE. There’s only like three and a half more books to record, so I think we’ll do that in 2022 instead of CLOAK MAGE. So if all goes well the GHOST EXILE series will be finished as well. I think once GHOSTS and GHOST EXILE are done it will end up at a combined length of like 220 plus hours.<\/p>\n
8.) Lose one pound.<\/p>\n
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again! I wanted to lose one pound in 2021, but ended up gaining two. (Though to be fair, if the calendar year ended in August I would have ended 2021 fifteen pounds heavier instead of just two.) I put on waaaaay too much weight in the 18 months from March 2020 to September 2021 and I really need to do something about it because I have much less energy and am writing a lot slower due to the resultant brain fog (see above). So we’ll see how it goes this year.<\/p>\n
So those are my eight writing goals for 2022. Time to get cracking on them! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
-JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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