The Pace You Set is the Right Pace

The speed you do your work at is the pace that’s right for you.

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For a long time, apart from regular blogs, my writing pace was nigh on glacial.

Granted, there were fits of intense writing where I went multiple days at a time creating my work. But then they’d be followed by days, weeks, even months of no fiction writing at all.

At the time, apart from my blogs, I was a hobbyist writer. Although I love the art and I was creating some cool stuff — but it was not my vocation.

During the height of the pandemic, the opportunity to put my writing front and center came into being. To go with that, I created a new set of goals and laid out an ambitious pace to write at.

My goal is to publish 6 novels throughout 2021. The intent is to have a book edited and published every other month — until the end of the year. February, April, Jun, August, October, and November.

So far, so good. The first book of my new sci-fi series, Forgotten Fodder, was published in February. The third book of The Void Incursion was published in April. Now, in June, the second Forgotten Fodder novel is about to be published.

This is part and parcel of the pace I have set for myself. To meet it, I have created a spreadsheet of…