Random Musings

Mind Card: What would you lose if you didn’t achieve your goals this month?

At least I’m working with this as my inspiration.

That’s not an option, actually. I missed my end of January deadline, and I’m still not finished with the first draft. I’m nearly there–about three more chapters, I think. But I realized last night that I’d written myself into a corner and I wasn’t sure how to get out of it. that meant a lot of screen scribbling and “what if” statements followed by rubbish I deleted.

When you self publish there’s no one pushing you. Deadlines are self imposed, and if you want to sell books, if you want to stay in a reader’s mind, then you need to keep putting out more books. As a commenter said, we’re on a raft made of books. The bigger the raft, the more visible we are, the better we float.

Echoes of the Heart should come out in May, and that’s a tight turn around already. So I have to finish. Failure is not an option.

Do you have any plans this month that you need to come to fruition?