Last year I decided to stretch myself; this year it seems I’ve moved into flat-out masochistic pretzel-like twists.  Yes, I know that sentence should have had commas, but tell me it didn’t read better as is. It had a more maniacal feel, which is exactly what I was…AAAAAAARGH, STALLING TACTIC!!

My writing goals for 2016 are as follows:
1) Complete the rough draft of The Twenty Three Cities by the end of February. Get into hands of Alpha v2 reader by then.  Beta by March, publish on Kindle by May
  2) Outline AND COMPLETE TDaC2 by end of September. Beta back by end of November, Publish in early 2017 (assuming no agent).
  3) Apply to the Choose Your Own Adventure company I found with at least the ideas, write at least one, get paid.
  4) Send three agent letters per week till either (1) I get accepted, (2) I run out of agents, or (3) May 15th. If May 15th rolls around, publish myself on Kindle.

If course, any and all of these are subject to change if something were to absolutely take off, but given a typical straight line trajectory…these are them. Two books plus one or more adventures plus continuing to write for Black Chicken (shameless plug)…and that’s just the writing. Still, one can’t get to good without aiming for great, or something like that.