Juho Pohjalainen's Blog: Pankarp - Posts Tagged "goals"

2018 was a little bit less productive for me than the year before: I spat out Pirates (now Blight) of the Demure Sea in about a month and a half, sure, but other than that there were just a couple drafts I ended up shelving halfway and never getting back to, and a short story or two. The year before, by comparison, I got through with The Straggler's Mask, Chaos Star, and The Vagrant's Wings.

I'll see if I can do better in 2019.

Today I began writing Ivar Stormling of Skar, and all being well I should have a draft finished by April. Then maybe I can get back to editing Demure Sea and Chaos Star, maybe finishing Shadowland and/or a few more short stories, and finish up with The Vagrant's Wings and get someone to slap a cover on it. I did have another idea coming up in my head, too, about mountains and such: we'll see if that goes anywhere.

I've only just now finished a short story called (at the moment) Twice-Shot Star. I was a little worried I might not be able to make it, and had to stay up a little late, but in the end, here we are.

Now I can start NaNoWriMo from something fresh. I've two or three short bits to write - no real single novel, as such, but with luck these will add up to the goal when put together. So I'm not overly fussed. I've written a few more short ones in the meantime, too: I think I'll pile some of them together into a nice big short story collection for you to read.

I've also got this one short story that does not really fit in with anything else - kind of unique in a way - that I'll likely just have to publish all on its own. But I rather like it: I think it can stand out. We'll see, sometime this month, if I feel like it.

Now to bed.

Happy Halloween.