October is the month of near crazy. I am wondering where the month has gone. I have not gotten enough done though I have gotten some. As you might have noticed, I am still not writing my weekly blog. I do want to have some type of blog, though it will wait until the new year to see that forth that will take. Maybe I can do some vlog, though I have the face for radio and voice for text. I have published my book one of my Corrupted Stream Saga and I am working to publish the next. It should go up in the next week or so. I am working on my plans for next year, and I am changing my plans for the next two months.
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 561k words for 2020. This month I wrote 67,188 words. If I keep this pace up, I will be around 671k 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 671 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 Only 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.
- 9. Trapped Reality. Book one of the Corrupted Stream Saga
Write one blog post a week.- 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.
Last year I have told that I am no longer doing NaNoWriMo. I didn’t see a point in it. If you have followed my update posts, I have written a NaNo every month. January: 57,406. February: 47,811. March: 51041. April: 48,670. May: 50,038. June: 52,391. July: 67,439. August: 51,740. September: 67,848. October: 67,188. So this year, I am not doing a simple NaNo. The purpose of NaNoWriMo is to challenge a person to try something they think is hard. There is a myth that writing a novel will take most of a year to write. That it isn’t possible to write it faster.
A novel is a minimum of fifty thousand. Writing that in thirty days is 1,667 words per day. In the reach of most people. For me, my yearly average is 1,836 words a day. My average for the last few months is 2,262 and 2,167 words. So to keep the challenge a proper challenge, I am going to write 100k words. This is insane and I don’t think I will be successful. But I am not going to try.
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.
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