Well, the world made it into 2022. Not that there’s any doubt the planet would make it. As to humanity, we made it as well, with the hopes this year will be better than 2021. Travel still seems to be the lottery I mentioned last time, and I decided to hold off any decisions to see what governments did after January 1st. At the time of writing they’ve done nothing so in the next week or so, I’ll get onto the airline sites and see what they have available.

I have decided to go with the tripling my annual count of usable words. That’s usable fiction, non-fiction, and this blog. For anyone counting that’s going to be about 500,000 words for 2022. It’s a long way from the two-million plus Dean Wesley-Smith is targeting, but maybe I’ll go for that next year, or in 2024. Assuming I make it, that will be ten or more items toward that magical twenty number I talked about in early-December.

As of today, I’m about 1,500 words behind. I’m not worried about it because yesterday was spent in a lot of preparation and establishing my 2022 tracking items. Today I made a start on a short story, and have a hard copy of Death at a Wedding beside me. I’ll look through that hard copy to remind myself where I was, and get my head back into ancient Babylon. I’m not working with the day job for the next week, so I expect to make good progress.

I’m also planning to write here more regularly in 2022, so stay tuned and I’ll report on progress next week.