tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198468122024-03-06T22:41:39.829-06:00The West(ern) ChroniclesHome Page for Everyone's Favorite Hero, Aston WestT. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.comBlogger829125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-19547309821278666942024-01-01T12:18:00.000-06:002024-01-01T12:18:03.486-06:002024 Writing GoalsWell, things didn't go so well through 2023.
Working to get some things done in 2024. Here are my goals:
1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn.
I am currently at about 35K words. I have a good idea of the path I
want the story to take, so now it's just a matter of getting the writing
done. However, this will likely take a back seat to my Demonkiller T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-50219999623809918102024-01-01T12:10:00.001-06:002024-01-01T12:10:38.505-06:002023 Writing Goals ReviewWell, sometimes life gets in the way, and 2023 was one of those years. My father passed away in June, and that same weekend started my new (second) job as an Associate Pastor for a local church after nearly 23 years at our former church as a layperson. This involves a lot of classwork as I work toward ordination in our denomination, reading textbooks, writing papers and such. But due to other T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-11788680204861034382023-01-01T08:00:00.038-06:002023-01-01T08:00:00.172-06:002023 Writing GoalsWell, things were going well, writing-wise, through most of 2022. Hoping to get some more momentum going on these, so here are my goals for 2023:
1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn. I am currently at about 30K words. I have a good idea of the path I want the story to take, so now it's just a matter of getting the writing done.
2. Complete the first T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-8569189042339964702022-12-31T17:00:00.069-06:002022-12-31T17:00:00.182-06:002022 Writing Goals ReviewWell, 2022 was a fairly productive year, although with two novels in work, not a lot was completely finished. Combine that with work stresses and several items around the house that needed to be addressed, it was good that I could get some work accomplished on the goals that I did. Here's the recap for how things went against my 2022 goals.
1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-66968422798933517162022-12-24T09:43:00.005-06:002022-12-24T11:51:16.159-06:00"Turnabout" is Fair Play It has been a great long while since I've posted, and even then, most of those had been my regular writing goals posts (end of the year posts are coming soon). But I'm happy to announce that my latest Aston short story "Turnabout" will be published soon in a magazine. It has been over a decade (11-12 years?) since my last official magazine publication, so pretty excited about that. Will letT. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-57519029611611896122022-02-12T17:06:00.000-06:002022-02-12T17:06:21.325-06:002022 Writing GoalsWell, I neglected to put out a set of goals in 2021, and almost did the same here in 2022. I guess it's only a month late (not making excuses, but the past month or so has been a train wreck, health-wise). Here they are:
1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn. I have several chapters written on this one, so I am expecting to finish this goal. That said, IT. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-12209952275147714112021-12-31T08:09:00.005-06:002021-12-31T08:09:39.226-06:002021 Writing Goals ReviewAs I came back to my blog, I realized that I never did set up goals for 2021, but since I didn't do much in 2020 anyway, I'll just base my review on my 2020 goals. Hopefully I will come back and set up a new post for my 2022 goals before long.
1. Publish my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn.
Still didn't do much on this novel, but I have started to work on getting some momentum T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-71143414691049992682021-01-21T18:34:00.005-06:002021-01-21T18:34:41.308-06:00Shell Games ExcerptWith recent national events, it seemed as good a time as any to dust off an old excerpt from my short story "Shell Games" for your perusal. Want to check out the full story? Catch it as part of the Dead or Alive collection from ResAliens Press!
The hatch slammed shut before I’d even finished,
leaving me no choice besides pushing my way through the thickening crowd.
Sadly, they had no manners andT. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-14801822532433051872021-01-01T00:18:00.002-06:002021-01-01T00:18:30.744-06:002020 Writing Goals ReviewWell, as you can imagine, 2020 was pretty dismal all around, and writing goals were no exception. I did end up getting a lot of final edits finished on my Demonkiller novel just today, so here's hoping that I can keep the momentum going into the new year. Here's the recap for how things went against my 2020 goals. A follow-up post for my 2021 goals will be coming soon.
1. Publish my fifth Aston T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-17790312700843702792020-08-08T21:53:00.004-05:002020-08-08T21:53:50.117-05:00Crossfire & Other StoriesSorry for the long delay in posting...this year has been a bit of a mess.Although most of you know me through my Aston West novels and novellas
(through other threads around here), and the short stories I have in a
couple of collections, I do write other material. Finished up another collection of stories recently, set in
the same universe, but focused on a different character who made an
T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-47694774247644893202020-01-01T08:42:00.005-06:002020-01-01T08:42:57.686-06:002020 Writing GoalsWell, since 2019 was such a dismal outing on the writing front, this year's goals are going to look a lot like last year's. Here's hoping
I'll be able to complete a few of these goals this time around.
So, here goes:
1. Publish my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn.
2. Publish my in-work "Demonkiller" WIP (which still needs a title).
3. Complete the first draft of my in-work T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-88183230467929391692019-12-31T07:54:00.000-06:002019-12-31T07:55:00.243-06:002019 Writing Goals ReviewWell, the year is coming to a close today, and sadly, this year has been pretty disastrous. Several factors contributed to that, I imagine, but those just happen to be excuses for not reaching my goals. So, for now, we'll recap how things went against my 2019 goals. A follow-up post for my 2020 goals will be coming soon.
1. Publish my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn. I plan to T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-10459418120329267772019-07-04T12:41:00.004-05:002019-07-04T12:41:59.140-05:00July 2019 Writing GoalsWell, six months in, and this past month was pretty much a waste, but hopefully things will improve soon.
So, here are the results for June:
1. Complete first round edits on 18 chapters of the first Demonkiller novel. - Only got through reviews of six chapters, but no true editing.
2. Complete work on getting my four Aston novels onto other platforms such as B&N, Smashwords, etc. - The T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-19278217867638303152019-06-04T20:29:00.002-05:002019-06-04T20:29:59.296-05:00June 2019 Writing GoalsWell, five months in, and although some work was done, not a lot.
So, here are the results for May:
1. Complete the first draft of "Dead Broke" (one of my three new Aston West stories). - Finished this goal with over 3,000 words written.
2. Complete 2,500 words on Before the Dawn. - Did not work on this goal.
3. Complete 1,000 words on Dark Side (tentative title for my sci-fi detective T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-45779905060815281002019-05-04T12:07:00.003-05:002019-05-04T12:07:36.712-05:00May 2019 Writing GoalsWell, four months in, and unfortunately, there was next to nothing done this past month. Several factors weighed in on that, but hopefully May will be an improvement.
So, here are the results for April:
1. Complete the first draft of "Dead Broke" (one of my three new Aston West stories). - Didn't finish this goal, with less than 300 words written.
2. Complete 2,500 words on Before the Dawn. - T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-80201171555378776142019-04-01T21:40:00.000-05:002019-04-01T21:40:54.090-05:00April 2019 Writing GoalsWell, three months in, and although I didn't put out a weekly update,
there
were some goals that were worked on. Results were mixed this month, and still didn't get everything done that I was wanting to.
So, here are the results for March:
1. Complete the first draft of "Dead Broke" (one of my three new Aston West stories). - Didn't finish this goal, but did in fact get about 2,200 words T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-60801041374358446562019-03-02T09:19:00.002-06:002019-06-04T20:31:59.340-05:00March 2019 Writing GoalsWell, two months in, and although I didn't put out a weekly update, there
were some goals that were worked on. Results were better than I'd hoped, but still didn't get everything done that I was wanting to.
So, here are the results for February:
1. Complete the first draft on one of my three new Aston West stories. - Didn't get this one finished. Started one of the stories, "Dead Broke," but T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-20332902019223629872019-02-03T07:35:00.001-06:002019-02-03T07:35:15.931-06:00February 2019 Writing GoalsWell, one month in, and although I didn't put out a weekly update, there were some goals that were worked on. Results weren't as I'd hoped, but several outside factors were involved in that. I don't see that changing in February, but here's hoping.
So, here are the results for January:
1. Draft up three Aston West short stories. - Completed this goal. Three stories have been plotted.
2. T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-62451186963024983562019-01-02T21:21:00.002-06:002019-01-02T21:21:47.509-06:002019 Writing GoalsWell, things went a little better in 2018 than in 2017. So, I'm hoping that I'll maintain some momentum, and get some additional goals accomplished this year.
So, here goes:
1. Publish my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn.
I plan to complete a first draft by the end of May, so that I can work on
edits and hopefully have it out to the public sometime by the end of the year. I haveT. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-50402524447446749822018-12-31T20:43:00.001-06:002018-12-31T20:43:44.918-06:00January 2019 Writing GoalsWell, the year is finally over. This month went quite well, even if I struggled in putting out a weekly update.
So, here are the results for December:
1. Complete 2,500 words on my "Demonkiller" WIP.- Completed this goal, with nearly 6,000 words written this month.
2. Write 2,500 words on Before the Dawn. - Completed this goal, with just over 3,100 words written this month.
Here are my goals T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-67543844670412772262018-12-31T20:18:00.000-06:002019-01-01T08:47:03.724-06:002018 Writing Goals ReviewWell, the year is coming to a close in a few hours, and I've just spent the day finishing up the last touches on a first draft, so it's time to recap how things went against my 2018 goals. A follow-up post for my 2019 goals will be coming soon.
This year went well, or at least better than 2017 did.
1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn.
I plan to T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-79713615719309342672018-12-01T11:16:00.002-06:002018-12-01T11:16:21.949-06:00December 2018 Writing GoalsOne more month left in the year...it's now been eleven months since I first started working toward my writing goals. It was a bit rough this month when trying to put out a weekly update, but did get some writing done and accomplished some monthly goals.
So, here are the results for November:
1. Complete 1,500 words on my "Demonkiller" WIP.- Completed this goal, with over 2,500 words written T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-20621588436331350772018-11-03T21:25:00.001-05:002018-11-03T21:25:18.594-05:00Weekly Goals - November 3, 2018Currently attempting to meet my November goals. Here's the recap for this past week:
1. Write 1000 words on my Aston novel, Before the Dawn. - Didn't get anything written toward this goal.
2. Write 1000 words on my "Demonkiller" story. Completed around 600 words on this goal.
Now, my goals for the coming week:
1. Write 1000 words on my Aston novel, Before the Dawn.
2. Write 1000 words on my "T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-77155744561046504682018-11-03T21:22:00.001-05:002018-11-03T21:23:32.746-05:00November 2018 Writing GoalsQuickly approaching the end of the year...it's now been ten months since I first started working toward my writing goals. Things have been a bit better this month, including some work on the next Aston novel.
So, here are the results for October:
1. Complete 1,500 words on my "Demonkiller" WIP.- Didn't complete this goal, but did get around 900 words written this month.
2. Complete 1,500 T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846812.post-71118001654396485142018-10-27T21:04:00.004-05:002018-10-27T21:04:55.585-05:00Weekly Goals - October 27, 2018Currently attempting to meet my October goals. Here's the recap for this past week:
1. Write 1000 words on my Aston novel, Before the Dawn. Completed around 1800 words on this goal.
2. Write 1000 words on my "Demonkiller" story. Completed around 500 words on this goal.
Now, my goals for the coming week:
1. Write 1000 words on my Aston novel, Before the Dawn.
2. Write 1000 words on my "T. M. Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315726033990784930noreply@blogger.com0