{"id":662,"date":"2018-01-06T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T16:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2019-08-07T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T13:43:23","slug":"look-ahead-to-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/06\/look-ahead-to-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Look ahead to 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As I\u2019ve explained before, I don\u2019t do resolutions. There\u2019s just something about stating a specific goal, which then becomes a binary success indicator – you either \u2018win\u2019, or you \u2018lose\u2019. Or else they become wishy-washy, \u201cI resolve to not eat so much junk food\u201d type resolutions.
\nNo. I\u2019m a goal person. It\u2019s good to have goals in life, especially when you want to achieve something.
\nAnd what do I want to achieve? I want to publish more of my writing. 2018 is *that* year, when I\u2019m going to publish some of my long-form fiction (i.e. novels).
\nFor those that don\u2019t know me, I\u2019ve been writing \u2018seriously\u2019 since 2003. I\u2019ve written a lot of short fiction, and I\u2019ve written a lot of long fiction, too. And there it\u2019s stayed – unfinished, unedited, unloved. And over the past few years, I\u2019ve been getting more and more dissatisfied with this situation. Part of me thinks \u201cwhat\u2019s the point in creating new stories, working hard on the plots and the characters, for it just to end up as hard disk filler-upper?\u201d There\u2019s no point writing the beginning of new stories, adding to my glut of part-finished works.
\nSo, 2018 is The Year Of Publishing Dangerously.
\nBasically, I want to publish at least 4 novels this year. I want to publish two collections of short fiction this year, too.
\nThese are not pie-in-the-sky dreams. I\u2019m not coming from a blank sheet of paper here. I have seven completed novel-length works, and several more which are close to being completed.
\nI\u2019m working on completing a political conspiracy thriller for the first book to be published. Then there are crime stories, and more political conspiracies, and pre-apocalyptic thrillers. There\u2019s a ton of stuff which could be completed, edited and published. Which ones are close enough to make the cut, I don\u2019t actually know yet. But they\u2019re going to be sent out there, into the big wide world, so I can move on with other, new stories I want to write.
\nAnd who knows, someone might even like them. We\u2019re not going to know until they\u2019re released into the wild.
\nAnd that\u2019s what is going to happen.
\nWish me luck, people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I\u2019ve explained before, I don\u2019t do resolutions. There\u2019s just something about stating a specific goal, which then becomes a binary success indicator – you either \u2018win\u2019, or you \u2018lose\u2019. Or else they become wishy-washy, \u201cI resolve to not eat so much junk food\u201d type resolutions. No. I\u2019m a goal person. It\u2019s good to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looking-forward"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5y3CH-aG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}