Back in January, I posted my list of writing goals for this year. With half of 2023 now done, it’s time to check in and see how I’m doing.

I said I wanted to do two novels-finishing Treadwell House-Sanctuary and the next novel in the Market Center Mysteries series. As of right now, the first draft of Treadwell is at 60,000 words of a projected 75,000, so I should finish the draft within a month. So far, I’ve done some thought-work on the fourth of the Market Center Mysteries, but I’m not ready to start writing it.

Another goal was to write five more short stories and submit at least three of them. At this point I’ve done three short stories and submitted two of them. One of them is the wedding story included in the forthcoming Malice, Matrimony & Murder anthology. I’m well on the way to meeting that goal.

Then there was the audiobook thing, which I haven’t done much about yet. Sigh. I also wanted to do better and be more consistent about blogging. Well… I’m getting better. I still sometimes go for a while between posts, but I’m getting more regular about it.

And there are the personal goals—working on my memoir and eliminating stuff. I’ve made some progress, but not as much as I would like. I need to do better with both.