What I've Done in 2011

So far this year I've written:

84,602 words in Short Stories

46,196 words in Novella's

147,464 words in Novel's

278,262 words total--and that's not counting the word count that's still on my broken flash drive with Staples. I have over 30 finished and unfinished works on that drive. I'll do an updated count when I get the flash drive back. Apparently, they're rebuilding it from scratch and fixing the files sources. :( Not bad for 2011, eh? Didn't seem like much when I wrote it.

I still think I could do better next year, but that's because I'm a masochist and, who am I kidding? I love my job! Next year I think will have a lot less short stories and a lot more longer works. I'm going to be concentrating on some pretty streamlined goals in 2012 with a lot more focus on my backlist with various publishers. I have a basic outline I've where I'd like to take it, but there isn't much other than "work on WIP X" because I haven't figured out what WIP I'm going to work on next after the mythos one I'm writing right now.

I'd still really like to continue to write my fairytale novella's but one of them is on the flash drive and other stories are taking priority in my head. I guess it all depends on how much I get done for 2011. It's the beginning of Oct and I don't think I can write another book after my mythos one before the end of the year. So, unless I get my flash drive back soon and in order I won't be making my goal of five books out by 2012. But I can't do everything, got to remind myself of that sometimes, and that's no pithy word count up there.