I’ve spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks thinking about writing, publishing, and cash streams during 2022. On the day job front we’ve been fortunate enough to have our contracts extended – in one case all the way to the end of 2022.

A lot of the planning has circled back to my previous thinking about what to write next year. Not so much what to write – I have more ideas than I know what to do with at the moment. It’s which bright shiny object gets priority until it’s finished.

To get close to what I’m thinking, the annual word count I mentioned last time needs to triple or quadruple. it’s not so much making it happen, but making it happen in the time I have available and factoring in day-to-day events and the travel we have planned.

Travel outside of the US looks to be trending toward a lottery again. As I write this, the infection counts are rising once more, both here in the US, and in England, so it’s coming back to the same questions I had earlier this year. Do I book and risk a lockdown and travel restrictions, or do I hold off?

Or flip a coin and go with that answer.