Hi all,
As promised, here are my goals for 2024!
Write three books.
I would like to write the first drafts of the following books in 2024:
Original Elementals #8: Turf
Empty Skies #2: Freezing Constellations
Original Elementals #9: Arcturus
Publish two books.
I’m planning on publising Celestial Plague #4: Hell in April and Curse of Anubis #1 in October.
Re-name the Curse of Anubis books.
While I do like the names they currently have, I think I can do better. I’ve been looking at shorter, snappier titles and also longer ones. I don’t want to publish them with the titles they currently have.
Get two covers deisgned.
The first two books in the Curse of Anubis series will have covers by the end of the year. They will be designed by Deranged Doctor Design, as always.
Self-edit two books in the Curse of Anubis series.
I think I’ve been too hard on myself with self-editing in the past so this time I’m going to cut myself some slack. Editing two books myself is acheivable and I won’t be pushing myself too hard to get it done either.
Finish the Curse of Anubis Short Story Collection and make it available to my subscribers.
I’m planning on getting this enovella finished this year and I want to make it available to my newsletter subscribers before October.
Read 100 books.
I love reading and seeing as I blew my goal out of the water last year I thought I would increase it!
Work on my book sales.
I’d love to be able to publish more books, but in order to do that I need to sell more. I’m going to be tweaking a lot of my books descriptions, blurbs and categories to hopefully get more eyes on them. I want to continue publishing in the future and would like to increase the amount of books I’m able to publish in a year.
Create a Patreon.
Even if it’s not ready by the end of the year, I at least want to get started on it. I put it off a lot last year because I was worried that no-one would want to sign up to it. This is still one of my big goals although I’ve tweaked the original vision a bit. It will now be a hub for all things Elemental Dragons, which means that Original Elementals will be published on there first.
Participate in Camp NaNoWriMo and NaNoWriMo.
I love participating in these events and my writing wouldn’t be where it is without them. I want to participate in all three events again this year and hopefully get some books done in that time!
I’m being a bit kinder to myself this year which is why I’m not setting as many goals as I usually do. I want to try to focus on my mental health a bit more this year. I didn’t realise how hard I was pushing myself until I looked back at my goals from last year. I’m going to slow down a bit but still keep up with my writing.
What are your goals for this year? Let me know in the comments!
