Happy New Year!

Yesterday, I spent from about 8 to about 10 writing, adding in a little more after that and wrapping up just in time to kiss my husband, feed the cats, and go to sleep in 2020.

I wrote a total of 14,026 words yesterday.  Not only did I beat my 2018 Livewriting total (10,000) (in 2017: 7519), I blew it out of the water.

I’m pretty happy with that! I got prompts from new prompters, which makes me even happier (I love getting prompts from my constant people and I love getting prompts from new people, too), prompts from some long-term readers and Patrons, and may have started a new serial.

All in all, in 2019 I wrote 810,016 words, 8% more than in 2018. I finished (yes, some debate on one of those) three blog serials and Edally and… I’m not sure if I started any new settings!

In 2020, I want to focus on the following, in re. writing:

• Submit at least 1 story every 2 months
• Get caught up and stay caught up with Patreon (this is mostly non-writing; i.e., maps and chapbooks, right now)
• Find one more way to promote my writing and keep up with it at least monthly (suggestions?)
• Clean up and self-pub one novel, pref. 2
• Finish 1 novel (pref 2), edit, submit for publication
• Work on improving my Weak Spots of Writing
• Fun Goal: Beat 2019’s monthly, weekly, daily, and yearly wordcounts.
• I want to say “get more Patrons” but that’s not in my hands. I can write and talk about my writing and promote it but I can’t manufacture Patrons.

I will try to keep something similar to my recent publishing schedule: stories on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and/or Saturday, one-shots or blog posts slipping in on Tues and/or Thursday.

I have several new series or mini-series either in the works or in consideration right now, so there may be a few weird weeks while I get caught up.

But all in all, I think it will be a good year!

Cheers, and thanks for all your reading and comments in 2019!

Since I like playing on 4thewords, this little bug monster says I need to add a little bit more to this blog post. 

Webpage goals for 2020 include:

• *find an effective plug-in which lets me:
  •  Automagically crosspost to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and maybe Mastodon
  • Automagically crosspost to Dreamwidth and NOT continue to re-crosspost every time I change anything in the post.
• Finish my Settings Page and my Fae Apoc landing page
• Start a New Readers Page of some sort which suggests places for, well, new readers to begin
• Complete the Great Patreon Crossposting and the Tag and Category Clean-up

So!

When should I do a livewriting day this year?

(A day where I write most of the day (with breaks) in a GoogleDoc or maybe in Twitch too??, at least in part to your prompts)

Options include:

Thursday 12/26

(less ideal) Sunday 12/29

Monday 12/30

Tuesday 12/31

If you don’t think you’ll prompt or stop in (to the Docs window or if there’s a Twitch feed or if you have some other interesting suggestion for how to write in my cave for all y’all to read it while I write), no real need to chime in, TBH, but the more people who prompt/stop in, the happier I’ll be. 😀

Hello!  Yesterday, in a bid to finish a time-limited quest in 4TheWords¹, I asked for prompts on Mastodon² and Twitter.

And then I posted the first bunch of stories on Ko-Fi as I wrote them.

These are those stories. (Dun-dunn³).

A Light in the Dark – The nights were long and dark and the days were cold and grey.

The Real World – “Stand and Present arms!”

The Two Kings – “There isn’t meant to be a thief king!”

D.F. Claudine Davenport & other authors – “I do have one question.  The fact that you credited your cat as a co-author.  Is this a nod to F. D. C. Willard?  If not-”

Atsidasauron Minimus – Every ship that went into space, every one since the first to leave the solar system, the Virginia of Sagadahoc, had one thing in common: they all carried at least two cats.

1. 4thewords.com – a writing game where writing words fights monsters – my referral code is ZUZXW97294 – your first month is free & if you use my code, both you & I get goodies & I can send you more!
2. tootplanet.space; JoinMastodon.org – Mastodon is a twitter-like social media site with no ads.
3. (law and order sound)