A Good Swift Kick

Goals.

They've been missing from my writing life. Good, targeted goals. Goals with dates, word counts, submissions deadlines...

I need some goals. I need them to be public so I can't slack.

Here goes:

Finish edits on Good Deeds (a short thriller) and publish by Monday (2/20/12).Finish writing a second short thriller (Switch) and publish by the end of March.Submit one short story (or flash fiction) each month. I have several started which need finished. Finish writing the irreverent vampire novella I started last fall. It's fun. And bloody. I will be done with the first draft by the end of the school year.Write the third and "final" installment of The Sons of Chaos. It's going to be a cold one. I'd like to finish this by the end of the school year as well.There. Now I have to do these things. 

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Speaking of things one has to do, how about reading the latest Penny Dreadnought? It's only a buck for Kindle:



The Abominable Gentlemen build four worlds only to destroy them in this apocalypse-themed issue of Penny Dreadnought. Witness four unique visions of the end in:

"Precious Metal" by Aaron Polson
"Only the Lonely" by Iain Rowan
"The New Words" by Alan Ryker
"He" by James Everington

Delicious.