Review Of My 2024 Creative And Business Goals With Joanna Penn
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals.
I hope you can take the time to review your goals and you're welcome to leave a comment below about how the year went. Did you achieve everything you wanted to? Let me know in the comments.
It's always interesting looking back at my goals from a year ago, because I don't even look at them in the months between, so sometimes it's a real surprise how much they've changed! You can read my 2024 goals here, and I go through how things went below.
Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author as J.F. Penn. She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker.
You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.
Show Notes
* Spear of Destiny, the Gothic cathedral project, and short stories
* Award-winning memoir, Pilgrimage
* Blood Vintage, and working with a US agent
* The Creative Penn Podcast and Patreon Community
* Streamline TheCreativePenn website and redo Author Blueprint
* How to Write Non-Fiction, Second Edition
* Travel, speaking, and in-person events
* Financials, health and fitness, and happy cats!
J.F. Penn — Spear of Destiny, the Gothic Cathedral project, and short stories
I researched, wrote and then did a Kickstarter for Spear of Destiny, ARKANE Thriller #13, before publishing it wide a few months later.
I went to Vienna, Nuremberg, and Cologne in January, which was a chilly trip but inspired much of the story.
The Kickstarter ran in June 2024 and raised £12,536 from 313 Backers. I made a limited edition hardback with silver foil and a ribbon, and a specific cover for the campaign, which I love!
You can buy Spear of Destiny here in all formats on my store, or here everywhere else.
The hardback was available in bundle deals with the rest of the series, and I also bit the bullet over audio and had the first three books in the series re-narrated by Veronica Giguere (they had been withdrawn since my rewrites in 2022),
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business. |
| 0:14.7 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint, and lots more at thecreativepen.com. |
| 0:22.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 787 of the podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | And it is Saturday, the 28th of December, 2024 as I record this, the final episode of the year. |
| 0:41.1 | In today's show, I'm doing a solo episode reviewing my goals for 2024. What I achieved and what I |
| 0:48.6 | failed at and why I failed. And this is something I do every year to keep myself accountable both to myself and also to you. |
| 0:56.5 | I hope you have time for reflection over this holiday period and I'd love to know what you |
| 1:01.7 | achieved and any lessons learned. So please leave a comment on the show notes or the YouTube channel |
| 1:06.8 | or email me Joanna at the creative pen.com. I'll also be sharing my 2025 goals in the next few days |
| 1:14.3 | and then we'll be back to the usual show next week. Right, let's review 2024. |
| 1:24.6 | Review of my 2024 creative and business goals with me, Joanna Penn. |
| 1:31.3 | So first of all, I have two brands, Joanna Penn and J.F. Penn. So first of all, |
| 1:36.3 | J.F. Penn, I was writing Spear of Destiny, the Gothic Cathedral Project and short stories. |
| 1:43.9 | So I researched, wrote and then did a Kickstarter for Spear of Destiny, |
| 1:48.9 | my arcane thriller number 13, before publishing it wide a few months later. |
| 1:54.4 | In January, I was in Vienna, Nuremberg and Cologne, |
| 1:58.1 | which was a chilly trip, but inspired much of the story. |
| 2:02.5 | The Kickstarter ran in June 24 and raised £12,536 pounds, that's I guess, around $14,000, |
| 2:10.6 | $15,000 from 313 backers. I made a limited edition hardback with silver foil and a ribbon and a specific cover for |
| 2:19.8 | the campaign, which I love, which I made with Mid Journey. You can buy Spear of Destiny in all formats |
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