January 2022

January Goals

I set myself up going into the new year with a modest list of goals for the year as it comes to writing. After being so productive last year I thought maybe I should, ya know, not push my luck. And for the most part I was hoping to primary focus on editing, publishing, and building my audience. As every where I look for new authors, especially those who must rely mostly on themselves for promotion…building an audience is key.

My January Goals –

• 10k words written
• Edit Howling Moon

What I accomplished –

• 31k words written over three short story/novellas. One of which I’d been plotting on for a bit and just hadn’t started writing. 20 k of that 31 went to it…and I really hope this is a short that I will get out to people sooner rather than later.
• The other 10 k words went to the Howling Moon Spinoff that I will be posting a little bit more about in the coming weeks. I’ve been studying up on Kindle Vella and Patreon…and you will probably see that spin off in those two platforms.
• Read through the second Howling Moon twice, fixing a lot of stuff that I didn’t even realize was there and needing fixed until I listened to the book.
• Did quite well I think with the whole building an audience…gained a ton of followers on tiktok, mostly through booktok hashtag. The free give away of Howling Moon was a success. And it’s also been getting a lot of page reads through Kindle Unlimited… Though my blog didn’t get the amount of traffic it did late last year, I still managed to post 4 blogs in the month!

February Goals –

• 10k words written.
• Do a blocking edit of Howling Moon 2…if you don’t know what that is. I didn’t either until recently. Basically, going through chapter to chapter and checking to make sure there is nothing left out of the scenery. Checking to make sure anything that needs the extra bit of detail, has it. Emotions, senses, the scenery…anything that can add depth to the story. And hopefully, maybe start getting some sample edits back from a couple editors.
• Launch Patreon account, as part of the continuing to build one’s audience. As well as post 4 blogs this month as well.

And I’m posting this on the 6^th, truth is I’m already getting a heck of a jumpstart on this month’s list. 

Picture of Penny annoying Nala, just because 🙂