I’m seriously considering this project for 2026.

Writing is fun—I love it. Since I mostly write pulp fiction, I believe I could easily write 40–80K words per month and thus complete a new story within 30 days. What has held me back so far isn’t the writing itself, but the stuff that happens around it: editing, translating, formatting, cover design, uploading, and marketing.

My latest release, Like a Rolling Stone, is around 80K words long. It took me three months to edit, and I’m currently translating it into English, with the goal of finishing the translation within a total time of three weeks.

Here’s how the process usually looks for me:

• Generating ideas happens naturally during everyday tasks
• Outlining can take anywhere from 1 to 7 days
• Writing 1K words per day equals one new book every two months
• Editing takes around 2–3 months
• Translating takes almost another month
• Cover design takes one day
• Formatting, uploading, and meta take another day
• Marketing is a lifelong task that I’m still trying to figure out

All in all, that adds up to about five months per book.

So far, I’ve collected more than 300 ideas in my swipe file. New ideas pop into my head constantly while I’m working on a story, so there’s already more than enough material for a book a month project.

Sometimes outlining happens naturally while I’m writing, and occasionally I create full roadmaps as a basic story structure. That shouldn’t be an issue either.

Last year, I worked on multiple books at the same time. That allowed me to release three novels and ten short stories. If I add up the word counts of those releases, I’m somewhere around 200K words. In addition, I wrote first drafts for 3-4 novels totaling at least another 200K words, plus 42 short stories amounting to roughly another 200K words.

Once again, the writing itself isn’t far away from a book a month:

• 12 × 40–80K words = 480–960K words
• In 2025 I’ve written around 600K words

With a bit more discipline, writing 12 full novels in 12 months seems achievable.

But now comes the hard part: editing, translating, formatting, and uploading. To handle this for 12 full novels in a single year, I’d need to do more than double my efforts—probably even triple them, as I don’t want to sacrifice quality, especially when it comes to editing, just to increase output. Squeezing many more editing sessions into my daily routine will therefore be the real challenge of 2026.

I plan to report on the project throughout the entire year here on the blog and on X. If I succeed, I might even continue this schedule until writing stops being something I love as much as I do now. If I fail, I’ll still end up publishing far more books than I managed in 2025.

Either way, this project is a worthwhile endeavor for me – and hopefully a fun read for you.