September is the beginning my second to last semester of school. This is scary as I have had the freedom to not worry about a day job. This may be in my cards. In the writing front, I made my deadlines for the Liberation of Ghosts. I also published two of my books for a pen name. I won’t be giving the name out here, but I write in two other pen names with more planned for the next year.
2020 GOALS
- Write 600,000 words in publishable story related projects.
(Bonus) Write 800,000 words as a stretch goal.- (Bonus)Write 750,000 words as a stretch goal.
- Write every day of at least 500 words, making words in a row at 731 days in a row.
Catch up on editing, allowing only 2 manuscripts waiting to be edited.- Edit every day of 1 chapter at a minimum.
- Secure cover art for any book in the editing stage.
Publish a minimum of 1 book.Publish a minimum of 3 books.Publish a minimum of 5 books.Publish a minimum of 7 books.- Publish 9 books
Write one blog post a week.Write update blogs at the start of every month.- Write an update blog for the remaining months.
- Clean up Tokyo Tempest #1 with a proofread.
- Write and submit 5 short stories to markets.
- Publish 7 short stories or novellas to amazon.
- Set up a Patreon account.
- Set up proper social media author accounts and a proper newsletter.
- Have 1 paying client of editing services.
- Make 100 dollars one month through publishing.
- Make 500 dollars one month through publishing.
- Make 1000 dollars one month through publishing.
(Bonus) Get back in shape physically by losing 20 lbs- (Bonus) Loose another 20 lbs
Breakdown of Goals.
As I have so many goals, and many of them build on others, I will be only going over the goals I am dealing with at the moment.
- Write 600,000 words in publishable story related projects.
- I am at 494k words for 2020. This month I wrote 67,848 words. If I keep this pace up, I will be around 658k words for the year. This is going great. I am not sure if I can make a stretch goal, though it won’t be for the lack of trying.
- Write every day of at least 500 words, making words in a row at 731 days in the road.
- I am on day 640 of 731.
- Catch up on editing allowing no more than 2 manuscripts waiting to be edited.
- I am still caught up on the editing. I just have to not let this get too far behind anymore.
- Edit every day of 1 chapter at a minimum.
- I got this one down. I have managed to make it something I do during my normal day.
- Secure cover art for any book in the editing stage.
- Cover art is a go. I have my wife making my covers. This excites me.
Publish a minimum of 1 book.- 1. Done! Enlisted. Book one of the Agent O’Neal Saga.
Publish a minimum of 3 books.- 2. Kidnapped. Book two of the Agent O’Neal Saga.
- 3. Traitor. Book three of the Agent O’Neal Saga.
- Publish a minimum of 5 books.
- 4. Felix the Fallen. Book one of the Order of Ghosts Saga.
- 5. City of Ghosts. Book two of the Order of Ghosts Saga.
- Publish a minimum of 7 books. (Headed for 9 books)
- 6. Liberation of Ghosts. Book three of the Order of Ghosts Saga.
- 7. Book one of Pen Name book.
- 8. Book two of Pen Name book.
- Write one blog post a week.
- This has gotten hard and has been dropped. I started writing a blog to keep writing. At first it was fun, but now it has turned into a chore. I will do more blog posts, but they won’t be on any set schedule. Has to be.
- Write an update blog for the remaining months.
- This is to keep going. No time to waste.
- Clean up Tokyo Tempest #1 with a proofread.
- I have planned to write books 2 and 3 in this series. Set for 2021.
- Write and submit 5 short stories to markets.
- I should write some short stories.
- I am networking and have submitted a few. Maybe I will get lucky?
- Publish 7 short stories or novellas to amazon.
- Set up a Patreon account.
- I need to make a move on this. No one can sign up to something that doesn’t exist.
- Set up proper social media author accounts and a proper newsletter.
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/nathanpeddeauthor/
- I now have a real Facebook group. This is a step in the right direction. Come join it. Join the party.
- Have 1 paying client of editing services.
- Make 100 dollars one month through publishing.
- Make 500 dollars one month through publishing.
- Make 1000 dollars one month through publishing.
- (Bonus) Loose another twenty pounds.
- I have been doing Keto for a month now. My weight has dipped down to 238lbs, but its hard to push it down. I will try another month before giving something else a go.
Future Plans.
I have started to plan for 2021 and 2022. I plan to write 1 million words. I do not think I can do this. But in 2019 I didn’t think I could do 500 thousand. But. It is October 1st and I’m at 500k words. Last year I was at this point in December. If I can manage to get similar months to what I did this month, I expect I will have 700k words this year. If I have to get a day job, this may change the count, but I will try my hardest to get things done.
This journey is not something I can do alone. It takes support from many people for it to become a reality. The easiest way is to visit my Amazon Author Page and purchase one of my books. They are available in all countries and for free in Kindle Unlimited. I have a tip jar set up at Ko-Fe, where you can buy me a coffee. Or you can also visit me on Facebook. Your help and support are much appreciated.