So many ideas, that I was feeling confused about how to handle them. That doesn’t sound like much, and I admit progress has been slow, but I’m very excited about the ideas I want to incorporate in this story. I’ve written the beginning of it, maybe 15% of the whole. I envision five novels in the Inverted Frontier series. While I am by no means burning up any bestseller lists, Inverted Frontier has been my most successful indie project thanks to all of you, and I’m very grateful.ĭone! That is, I’ve started it. Thank you to everyone who purchased a copy or convinced your library to get one. I finished a first draft early in the year, had it edited in the spring, and published it in July. Here are the specifics on how I did, with the goals I set for myself in January in all-caps:ĭone! This novel was Needle, third in the Inverted Frontier series. I met my primary goal and that did wonders to pull me out of a severe income slump in the first quarter of the year, so I’m not going to complain. That assessment is the subject of this post.Ģ022 was a decent writing year, better than 2021. At the end of the year, I check back to see how I did. Posted in Annual Writing Goals | Comments Off on 2023 Writing GoalsĮvery January I put up a blog post listing my writing goals for the coming year. But just as a reminder to myself, I’ll mention two bonus projects: (1) Start outlining the fifth and last volume of the Inverted Frontier series and (2) Put together that third short story collection I’ve talked about over the last few years. If I can do these three things, I’ll be satisfied. That’s three goals and that’s ambitious enough. For years I’ve talked about writing a novella in this story world. See my prior post, where I realized that 2023 will be the tenth anniversary of the original publication of The Red: First Light in its indie edition. So if I’m not ready to go by, say, early September, book #4 will need to wait until 2024. Silver mostly recovered over time Pacific Storm never did. In the past I’ve rushed two books to publication ( Silver and Pacific Storm), just to get them out before the end of the year, and both did dreadfully from a sales perspective. Will I be able to publish book 4 this year? I don’t know.

If things go really well, the novel will be done well before the end of 2023. I’m working on the fourth volume of the Inverted Frontier series and if things go well I’ll have a final draft before year’s end. I talked about this in my prior post which you can read here. After all, there’s more to life than writing. I used to be ambitious and list a lot of goals, but I’ve learned since to keep the list short. I’ve made it a tradition to list my writing goals for the coming year in a January 1st post.

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