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At the start of each calendar year I spend some time thinking about what I want to achieve over the next twelve months and setting goals connected to that. Then, at the end of the year I look back and see how I’ve done at achieving the goals I set.<\/p>\n

Often when I look back at the end of the year I can see how my priorities shifted and changed over the course of the year — as well as seeing the places where January Rhonda was perhaps a wee bit too ambitious for Rest Of The Year Rhonda. Another trend has recently become pretty clear — I seem to begin a lot of these goal-setting blog posts talking about being in a weird space. That space takes on different flavours but it happens enough that maybe, just maybe, I ought to accept that life is just kind of weird LOL<\/p>\n

Related: I just keep getting older?<\/p>\n

I know! It’s really just kind of annoying isn’t it? LOL<\/p>\n

Looking around at my life — which is a good one — I am in so many ways in a much, much better space than I ever dreamed possible but in lots of ways I’m not yet where I want to be. And because life is<\/em> weird for some aspects of my life I somehow manage to inhabit both the ‘exceeding expectations’ and ‘falling short of aspirations’ spaces simultaneously.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s weird.<\/p>\n

But I feel like I’m getting used to weird. Maybe that’s one of those things that comes with age LOL<\/p>\n

#1 Work Goal:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year I am working less. This is by design but it’s still jarring to me every time I look at the white board which organizes my life and see so much more empty space than before. My number one work-related goal is to resist the urge to fill up those spaces and remember I created them on purpose.<\/p>\n

Writing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a Broken Wing<\/em>: I want to finish writing and, ideally, edit and publish this book in 2023.<\/p>\n

Garryn<\/em>: I want to write the first draft of my book about Garryn.<\/p>\n

Patreon<\/em>: I will continue to write at least two pieces of Patreon-exclusive content each month. And not just content, but content I am proud of. Bonus points if I make progress on the tarot-inspired project.<\/p>\n

Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blindspots<\/em>: This was released exclusively to my Patreon in 2022. Once it’s been exclusive there for a year I will release it widely.<\/p>\n

Prairie Spirit(s)<\/em>: This was also released exclusively on Patreon in 2022. Once it’s been exclusive there for a year I will release it widely.<\/p>\n

Editing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women and the Sea<\/em>: This anthology (which has a new title we haven’t announced yet) will be coming out this year. I want to give this beautiful book the launch it deserves. I have concrete sales goals written down offline, but primarily what I want is to feel like I have done everything I could to give it a good start in the world, and not flailed around dropping balls.<\/p>\n

Freelance:<\/em> Limiting myself to one one freelance editing job every other month for this year. I really need to resist the urge to fill my calendar up with work and remember that just because I\u00a0can<\/em> do something does not mean I\u00a0should.<\/em><\/p>\n

Marketing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Systems: <\/em>Once upon a time I felt like I had a process, a system, I would follow when putting out books. And it used to be reasonably effective (in a small fish kind of way) and sell a few books. Over the past three years or so I’ve drifted away from that system and it’s fallen apart. Great big bits of it are probably completely obsolete now…<\/p>\n

All this to say, I feel like I’ve totally forgotten how to sell books. Though I don’t want to make it a primary focus this year — I still want to spend more time creating than selling — I would like to begin to feel like I at least have a system in place again. So I’m going to test the process I used to use, find the holes and figure out how to patch them.<\/p>\n

Patreon:<\/em> I want to organise myself to begin submitting the content which was originally Patreon-exclusive to 3rd party publications (magazines and anthologies) once it is out of its exclusivity period. By the end of the year I would like to have every no-longer-exclusive Patreon story and poem I’ve written either reprinted elsewhere or on submission.<\/p>\n

Edmonton Expo<\/em>: Improve the ‘curb appeal’ of my table and surpass last year’s sales numbers.<\/p>\n

Game Design:<\/strong><\/p>\n

AVG:\u00a0<\/em>I am excited to continue doing my work with Archvillain Games. I don’t have a concrete goal associated with this beyond do the job, do it well and make sure it’s done on time.<\/p>\n

Other<\/em>: I have other Dungeons and Dragons related plans — one-shot collaborations, solo projects and the like — but they are all kind of on hold until we find out what is going on with the OGL. Short version of a long story — Hasbro\/Wizards of the Coast who own D&D, may be canceling the open gaming license that third party creators use to legally make content. If they do that I won’t be creating anything under their new license and will need to learn a new, different system to create content under. So. This ball is not in my court at the moment lol<\/p>\n

Non-Work Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n