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It's the end of another year, which is kind of baffling! This year has gone by super quickly. Let's take a look at what I've accomplished this year, for my own sanity! In January-ish I made a post detailing my goals for 2022. The TL;DR of that post is: Finish a draft of Alabaster Futurescapes... Continue Reading →
Hello! Wow! It's June! Every year I set some general goals, and every year I check in sometime about June to see how those are going. This year I'm happy to say things are going well! One of my big goals for this year was to finish a new manuscript -- a novel-length manuscript, not... Continue Reading →
Hello folks, and welcome to 2021. If you're like me you're not really feeling those resolutions this year. We're still in the middle of a pandemic, though vaccinations are dispersing somewhat, and we've got a few months more at best of our new, strange reality. And of course there is a lot of uncertainty right... Continue Reading →
Every six months I try to check in on my writing goals, and I totally skated right past that deadline this year. I don't think that's a surprise for anyone -- it certainly wasn't a surprise for me. I've had a hard time focusing over the past month or so especially, which I'm pretty sure... Continue Reading →
I have a work plan so I can keep up with my monthly To Do List. It looks like this: There are good parts of having a work plan. For example, I always know what I want to be working on next. Sort of. I mean I know what I wanted to be working on... Continue Reading →
And just like that, we're in a new year. I'm kind of at a crossroads this year, as I've alluded to in previous posts. Writing a book takes up so much time, and there are so many projects in the wings that I would like to be working on. Just off the top of my... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year! Let's see how I've done on my New Year's Resolutions. Last year's resolutions were: Finish Daughter of Madness.Finish APM.Successfully attend Futurescapes.Successfully attend my planned events, RAI and MystiCon.Figure out my next novel project and start on it.Be better at not over-committing myself, and on following through.Keep up with my short story... Continue Reading →
It is the end of the year. Jeez, that's intimidating. The end of the year. We've got not a lot of time to get caught up with our writing progress and start thinking about next year's goals. Also it's the time of year when the "Best of" lists are coming out, which means I need... Continue Reading →
It's a new year - indeed, it's been a new year for about a week now. That newness has a lot of worry and strangeness caught up in it for me and mine, but also a lot of excitement and forward-looking hopefulness. There is the prospect of marriage, of maybe moving, of traveling. There is no... Continue Reading →
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