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I had a great deal of success in the final ROW80 round in 2011, setting something like eight goals and meeting all of them. Of course, I had a hefty schedule with a weighty blog tour and such, so the emphasis was more on promotion that pure production.

So, I’ve decided to set fewer goals this round, and place the emphasis purely on production. That means pumping out words regularly to meet achievable goals.

Now, at the moment, I’m working on two big projects. Yes, two. Because I needed to start a project outside of the Ember Cole series, in order to tackle EMBER, the second book of the series. Sometimes you just need variety. This new project has a working title of EyeCU, and is for slightly older readers, and is more on the suspense/horror side of things, not as paranormally-inclined as the Ember Cole series.

Whereas EMBER is shaping up to be a longish novel, EyeCU feels like it’ll be a slimmer, more focused plot. It might even end up being novella length, rather than a full-length novel. Time will tell.

All that being understood, here are my goals for Round 1 of ROW80 in 2012:

1. Work on either EMBER or EyeCU six days per week, excluding the Sabbath (sundown Friday through sundown Saturday).

2. Produce a minimum of 1,500 words of new progress on either project, or combined, per working day.

3. Finish at least one of these projects by the end of the Round, and send it off to beta readers.

That’s it. That’d necessitate that I’d produce over 100,000 words of new progress this round, which should be enough to finish both projects.

Those are my only three goals. Pure production. Nothing else matters right now, except getting a couple new titles drafted and ready for beta-readers.

Simple. And challenging.