Plans and Goals for 2024

Plans for 2024

BLUF: I will keep striving for my 2022/2023 goals into 2024. They are sturdy goals, and I need to be constant. So, this is a long post saying to keep pushing for past goals. LOL.

I am going to attempt to plan content for the blog in 2024. I am not great at planning, but a good plan can ensure growth. I am not looking for growth but more consistent content on the blog. I still hope to publish my short stories and several novels, essay books, and non-fiction books. I also want to create a monthly book club and sell merchandise. For this to happen, I need to plan out my content.

WordPress has this thing called Bloganuary…. I might try it with my twist.

*Update* 31 days of content… I can barely do weekly content. I will do a form of consistent blogging, but not 31 days unless my delusional self does 31 days of spoiled reviews as a short-form podcast…. I am still tweaking this idea.

*Update to the Update* I posted eight days of book-related content from December 24, 2023, to January 1, 2024. I did not publish my short story because I wanted to add images. But after eight days of straight posts, I am incredibly excited; at least six posts are book reviews.

Last Year, I had a Blog update https://chemichelletales.com/2022/12/12/blog-update-a-month-late/

, and I have fallen off from this update so severely. Did I start a book podcast… No. Did I finish authoring a story or novel… NO, and I lost my creative spark. It just evaporated into the Ether of the universe, and I sit with so many unfished stories and poems. I have been searching for creativity for months. I did, however, keep blogging! I have twenty-four blog posts! I am trying to decide whether I want to do several posts by the end of 2023 or if I want to post almost thirty-one posts for 2024 in January. I feel like Bloganuary will exhaust my small number of readers. There is such a thing as content overload. Or do I do both!!!! 

*Another update* instead of me rewriting this blog. I decided to post as many posts as I had written from December 24- until 🤷🏿‍♀️.

Listen to me. Doing both is insane. That would only happen with dedication and time. I have very little time, and my commitment is worse than Larry in marketing, who says he will help you on a project but disappears for three weeks to Mexico but magically comes back for the big presentation and wows the investors. You are left with your dumbass boss telling you to be more like Larry! F*** You LARRY! Sorry, I have been watching too much Freevee on Amazon.

Below are my Wants for the blog.

1. I still want to create a 20-30-minute book review podcast and post bi-weekly.
2. I still want to write a book. I have a whole marketing rollout in my head for two of the books. I need to have better time management and writing.
3. I want to monetize part of my blog without falling into the capitalist system. I want to put affiliate links on some posts and share my short stories and writing prompts without seeing A.I. steal my work.
4. Schedule content one month out!

I want to do too much but also share my thoughts and ideas with people. I will be happy to keep reading and posting quirky book reviews and other random ideas I generate after reading a book. Here are some realistic goals I have for the blog in 2024:

1. Post at least three book reviews on finances/habits/ motivation in 2024. Listen, we all need help in these areas, and there are so many books to help get your finances in order, break unhealthy habits, or spur innovation and motivation; why not see which books do the best job for me and others?
2. Post my short stories. I always must remind myself that this world has two rules. Follow the rules or make your own rules. I realize in my life, the path less traveled works better for me in certain arenas. So, Short Story Saturday will be a thing; it will be behind a paywall cause, again, capitalism is a thing, and I want to protect my work until I can publish it in a collection of books.
3. Push through and create my products and services. I know money is hemorrhaging from YouTube and TikTok, but I still want to create content on both platforms. So, I will still make a podcast and see how it works out.
4. Sign up for a library card. It is disgusting that I read books but do not have a library card—capitalism at work. I need a library card, and I need to ween myself off Kindle and Google Books.
5. Get back into reading non-fiction books. I do miss reading about history or science. Books like that deserve love, too.

 I did notice I had a slump in posting in the summer months. So, I may take the summer off from writing or pre-planning content during the winter for summer posts. Best beach reads or best books about summer. I want to redo this blog to look a bit more polished. That will be a late Spring effort. Right now, my goal is to post and read. Slowly, add some of my Blog wants to achieve my primary goal. Publishing several books.

Until Next Time,

Che Michelle