Wow, we’re almost halfway through the year now. June is fast approaching and I’m planning on challenging myself somewhat for the rest of the year. I think it’ll be a fun thing to do and it might clear up the backlog of stories that I’ve got in my head and make room for some new ones.
I was considering challenging myself to write 60000 words a month for the next 6 months. So from June 1st, I’ll be hoping to clock up 60k each month, and get some editing done too as well as continuing to learn Japanese and all my other stuff I do (like maintaining websites). I think the editing is likely to be the one that will get in the way and threaten achieving this goal each month. I will have to do editing while I write or I’ll end up with a massive stack of editing to do come end of December and that will get me nowhere.
I have a whole bunch of stories that I’d like to get written. There’s several Vampires Realm stories included in those, all novel length except the Hyperion Eternity shorts that I plan to finish. See, five of those to write and that makes 50k already!
I have to finish the Sons of Lyra series. With two of the stories to finish off, I have at least another 13k there. Add to that the fact that I’m toying with the idea of writing a second generation Daughters of Lyra series for the children of the brothers I wrote about, and that will be another 60k.
Plus, I have a couple of ideas for Nocturne Bites submissions. That’s another 30k.
See, I’m racking it up already, and I haven’t even got to the novels yet!
Oh, I also have a short story to write for an anthology, as well as a Christmas story that I’m writing. That’s probably a combined 40k there.
Heavens! Maybe I need to ensure I break the monthly target, huh? That way, I can get all these stories in my head written. Of course, writing all these only clears the way for more stories that I have planned. Basically, I’ll get rid of 1 and another 2 will come along to replace it. I wish I could spend more time writing but full time work is a necessity and something that I love. Still, even with the full time work, I could probably push up to 80-100k a month out if I don’t have to edit.
Of course… all this blog writing will just slow me down. J/k! I’ll keep track of my progress on this blog…
