New Year, New Goals, What’s Coming Next

I hope everyone had a happy and healthy holiday season. Can’t believe it’s all over with. I swear it lasted all of five minutes then, poof! it was gone.

Yes, it’s that time again. Time to make goals for the new year. At the start of every year, I write down goals or things I want to achieve for the year. Rarely do I achieve them, stick with them, or remember them by February.

I try again throughout the year, remaking goals and such, with the same results.

As I was making my ill-fated list of goals for the year, I thought about why I don’t reach them. That is the problem I need to tackle. How to stick with my list and actually reach my goals.

Some goals I achieve, but most of them, not so much.

Course Corrected

If you’ve been following along, then you know I’d fallen into some sort of slump or writer’s block or something. If you haven’t been following along, you can read the first post about this here and the second here. I’ll wait.

All caught up? Good, let’s move forward.

I am back in full swing at last. My interest in blogging on here has returned, obviously. I even made a new fancy header and logo. There is still work to do. I need to write a better bio. You’d think being a writer that wouldn’t be so hard. Alas, writing about myself in third person isn’t as easy as it looks. Regardless, let’s face it, the bio I have now and the one before pretty much sucked. So anything might be an improvement at this point.

There are other miscellaneous things that I need to refine on this site, but they are not high priority at the moment. Plus, they are minor things I doubt anyone cares about except me.

I’m writing another story. I approached the writing of this story a bit differently and so far, so good. It is nearing completion and I should have it out sometime this month.

I’m debating about doing a series of stories on a theme, but nothing is for certain yet. I guess I’m a little shy about doing series because as I learned, it’s a bit of a commitment. Or at least I feel it should be.

For example, my Holiday Wishes Series. Four years later, I finally released story number three in that. Yeah, not what I was planning. If I start a series, I want to make sure I compete it going forward. I realize I don’t have to release the stories consecutively, but I felt that would be for the best.

What else?

I’m trying very hard to get into a routine with my writing so I can write stories faster and more regularly than I have been.

This all goes back to the goals I’ve been working on and figuring out how to achieve them. My goal is to write a certain number of stories this year and publish them. Another goal is to blog more regularly on here. I keep saying I’m going to do that. The next thing I know, a month or more has gone past since my last post.

Often doing these posts not only helps my fiction writing, but it helps me to keep writing on a more regular schedule. Another valuable thing about these posts is, believe it or not, I go back and read some of them. This blog has become a journal of my journey with this self-publishing thing. While I also hope others find it interesting, I can’t count the ways it’s helped me personally.

More Help

Speaking of helping. One thing I have done when I was making my goal list for the year is to journal in a notebook about why I don’t achieve my goals more than I do. What holds me back? Why can’t I get it together? And so on. I mean, I know most of it is me getting in my own way. I know this. So I examined all the ways I get in my own way and how to avoid this going forward.

I’m still in the planning stages of all of this, and I know I will most likely flounder at some point, but I am putting in a renewed effort to flounder much less this year.

I love reading and writing short romance stories. That’s what keeps me going down this path.

With all of this said, another story will be on its way this month. Hopefully, more than one, but one day at a time. It might be part of a themed series. I’m still working on that part, but I feel confident I can make it work. Also, I will be more active on here with more posts about whatever I my noodle brain comes up with.

In parting, I wish all of my readers a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025.