It’s been a busy 2018. Despite nothing published, I made a huge amount of progress. At the start of 2018, my plan was to plot Books 4 & 5 of my WIP, finish firsts drafts of Book 1 and 2, and get as far as I could through the first draft of Book 3. I actually finished Book 3. I wrote a total of 183,074 words over the year.

Book 3 came together much easier than Book 2 had. I had planned to finish it by the end of January 2019, but I actually finished before New Year’s Day. It shares the same primary setting with Book 1 and there are only two POV’s. The villain is a real nasty piece of work. Book 3 was a bit shorter than the previous books (55k) but I have no doubt it will plump up in size. I actually was so comfortable with my progress, I took Christmas Day off, the first day without writing since March.

Sticking to a defined and practical plan really helped me last year. Every day, I could see a little more progress being made and at the same time I had a minimum target to work to.

This year’s plan is to write the first drafts of Books 4 & 5. I’m already almost a quarter of the way through Book 4. I also plan to outline three other books and write the first draft of one of them. I also hope to get some more short fiction done.