Maybe I should give these more interesting names. Like, “Sequel Time!”

Listen, I never said it was a good title. Besides, every post is timestamped anyway.

Well, last week I finally published my first book and managed to make a few sales. Thanks, y’all! And in doing so, I finished off all my goals for the year. Hooray! So, uh. Time for a new one. Now. Because I can.

GOAL 1) TAP 2 (actual title pending)

  • My clear target is: Write 50,000 words of sequel to The Atheist’s Prayer
  • My reachable deadline is: June 30, 2021
  • My working days are: Mon-Fri
  • My method of measuring progress: Word count
  • My end goal: Finish the thing (preferably 50,000 words)
  • My daily goal, and number of available days: Write 500 words, 5 days a week. So 2500 words a week.
  • My leverage — WHY I need to do this: To further my name as an author and hopefully sell more books.

Am I completely insane? The thought has crossed my mind. Can I possibly keep up with this kind of schedule, even during my final semester of school? I don’t know. But we’re gonna find out real quick. If I can, I might be able to revise it by the end of next year, and maybe turn this out in 2022.

That may sound like a long wait for a sequel, but by my track record, this would be lightning fast.

Aaaaaaand I already started on this, soooo…

  • My Goal: 500 WPD, 2500 WPW
  • Where I planned to be: 2500 words
  • Where I am: 2507 words
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I’m already starting out on shaky ground. Which is less than ideal. But the idea is there, words are happening, and if in doubt… that’s what revision is for.

I can do this.

What about the two books you just wrote back to back? I hear someone whisper. (Spoiler alert, it me.)

They are, unfortunately for me, a completely different genre than The Atheist’s Prayer. In fact, they’re even different subgenres from each other (dystopian and post-apocalyptic sci-fi, to be exact). And according to basically every source I’ve come across, genre-mixing is bad for business. So I will be working on them at some point, but I probably won’t ever mention them again here. I’m gonna be a good boy and stick to urban fantasy here.

That being said, running two struggling businesses might be the really insane idea. So the sci-fi may take the backseat for now.

…but if any of the snippets from projects Krasnaya or Survival piqued your interest, or you’re into dystopian or post-apocalyptic sci-fi, and you want to know more about those projects, you can drop me an email at author@meilozaborowski.com and I’ll do my best to keep you in the loop.