November Goals

November goals are always pretty easy, but let’s see how October went…

• Finish the zero draft of the space opera and circle back to the beginning to start filling it in.
• Learn some things about advertising while doing Bryan Cohen’s “5-Day Amazon Ad Profit Challenge”. I don’t expect this to have a big impact on sales, but it will give me an idea of how things work.
• Get the next chapter of IMPULSE out to YWC.
• Figure out what I’m doing for NaNoWriMo in November.

I also wrote a bunch on GHOSTWRITER and I think I see where it needs to go, so that’s a plus. Someday I’ll get that draft finished.

The Amazon ad course was interesting. I managed to make a bunch of ads, but only three people ever clicked on them. So it was cheap fun (less than a dollar spent), but no sales that were tracked back to the ads. (It’s possible people saw the ad and looked up the book in another way, or those three people clicked on the ad and just downloaded the sample chapters. I don’t think there is any way to tell.)

The bottom line is that I should probably keep my day job for a while.

November Goals

• NaNoWriMo — It’s National Novel Writing Month, and I’m on board for the 50k word challenge. For those not familiar with book lengths, my books tend to run around 70-80k words, so I probably won’t finish the entire book this month, but it should be a good start. I’ll be working on the second book in the sheep heist series.