Happy New Year - Looking Ahead to 2026

A big happy New Year to everyone!

I’m really looking forward to 2026. While I don’t have any big New Year’s resolutions, I have been scheming some plans for the coming year. Besides, New Year resolutions last only about two weeks anyway.

While I didn’t publish nearly the amount of stories I wanted to in 2025, I felt I learned a ton of stuff when it comes to writing. I released only two stories in 2025. I know, pathetic, but it was better than no stories, so there’s that.

I am nearing the final stages of the next story in my Wedding Troubles Series. I’d hoped to have it out by now, but when Christmas hit this year, I just sort of shut down and enjoyed things. Maybe I needed that because life has been quite stressful since Thanksgiving. My main computer going kaput and both a major and a minor household appliances gave up the ship along with the computer. I think I just needed to take a big step back and regroup.

Now, with the holidays coming to a close, I’m excited for the coming year. I’ve actually made a solid plan, more solid than I have in the past. So that is something. The big challenge will be sticking with said plan.

For the first time, I have a list of numerous stories that I want to write this year. Usually I just list something like, I want to write 6 stories. But this year, I actually have listed the specific stories that I want to write. For example, I plan on writing the next two stories in the Wedding Troubles Series next. Then there are stories I’ve had ideas for at one point or another and decided it’s past time to get to them.

There are of course other miscellaneous things pertaining to writing that I need to see to. Things I swore I was going to do this past year but didn’t. It is really time I got on with all of that.

Many exciting things in the works. Hope you have many exciting things to look forward to in the coming year as well. With that. . .

Happy New Year!🎆🍸

May 2026 bring you much joy and happiness.😊

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