This year has been quite something. I wrote two books and published one of them, got my Express Queue going to seemingly resounding success, increased my writing time, published to a new furry art site and learned the technical limits of Google Docs. (Pro tip: don't use it for huge projects with lots of revisions and comments)

I'm still going strong, so here's a shortlist of things I'm planning for 2024:

Finish "Small Fish, Big Pond"

I've got one chapter left and it's already 90% done. I just need to take some spare time to wrap it up and it'll be nice to have a mid-size project completed.

Publish "Towards the Light"

The second book that I wrote this year which is undergoing an extensive editing process with the commissioner. We're getting there, despite Google Docs' best efforts to thwart us.

Publish the 2nd edition of "The Planeswalker: Between Skies"

This will depend on when I get all the chapter art for it, and when I write all the bonus scenes and supplemental material I want to add. Ideally this will happen on its 1-year anniversary, but we'll see. The main text of the story won't change (aside from fixing a few errors that slipped through the editing of the 1st edition), I'm just adding more stuff.

Expand to Weasyl

I offer my apologies in advance for what I'm going to do to the Weasyl frontpage. It's a much smaller and less-used site than FA so I wouldn't be surprised if I manage to completely dominate the Writing segment of the frontpage for the better part of a day or more.

Expand my website

I plan to expand TPBS's microsite to have pages for all of my SFW stories: The Days After, Towards the Light, and The Planeswalker: Between Skies, offering all of them (and any more SFW stories I write) in various formats under a pen name.

Start a Discord server

I'll do this after publishing TtL since that will 100% for-sure push me over the 1 million published words milestone. I've got a plan written up for channels and such:
- Channels to ask me questions about whatever; commissions, things I will/won't do, lore, etc.
- Copies of my commission queue and my terms so that they can be found away from any particular art site.
- Announcement channels with an opt-in role for pings so you can know when I've published something.
- Additional formats of longer works, as somehow Discord is the best place for me to dump a bunch of extra formats if you want to read a PDF or ebook version of a story.
- While there will be NSFW channels, and channels for the niche fetishes I'm best known for, they'll be opt-in through a role management bot so you won't have to deal with that if you're not into it.

Experiment with audio recordings

While a more grandiose plan is to record TPBS as an audiobook, I might want to first try something shorter and see how that goes. Maybe people will find my voice annoying, maybe they'll think it's okay for narrative and not erotica, and maybe it'll push people's buttons, who knows. But I won't find out until I try, so I'll have to pick a story (or a scene from a story), record a reading of it, and put it up to see what people think.

Cycle my queue at least once

At the time of writing I have 17 entries in the queue (of which 13 are actually commissioners, and the #1 is written and being edited). Not every slot is equal, some will be smaller and some will be bigger. I'd like to at least go through the whole queue next year at a bare minimum; preferably with more progress than that but I hope to make better progress. Various measures I've started taking (insisting on full outlines before starting and having a pause at 30k words) should help keep my queue moving much more reliably. Ultimately this is still a hobby and not my job, and it won't become my job unless I get laid off or something, but I do want to have a decent turnaround time regardless.

Another bo-

Hahaha, no. Two books in one year was enough to last me a while. Unless...?
More seriously, while I don't have any plans to write a book at this time, I didn't exactly intend to write 100,000 words when I started TPBS or TtL either. They just kind of happened. So I can't exclude the possibility of more accidental books in 2024.
Even more seriously, I'll probably try to take some long-form writing time to do more emotionally weighted stuff like the Warmly series / Study Buddies as they've been incredibly insightful to me while writing them. I'll just have to find some particular theme to write about and explore.

That's all for now. Best of luck to everyone in the new year, and thanks to all my readers! Whether you've read every last word I've written, or only that one story that panders to your specific fetish, I appreciate all of you. Thanks!