Well, 2024 wasn’t that great for reaching my goals, but I’m starting this year with the optimistic hope that I’ll be more productive.

So, obviously, goal one is to finish Unleashed for Murder, the fourth book in the Market Center Mysteries series. The series is planned for five books, with possibly a short story or two added in. I have ideas for the rest, but don’t really want to pursue those until I’ve finished the current work in progress. It stands at 50K words of a projected 70 to 75K, so there isn’t that much left to do. I even know what needs to happen. I just have to figure out how to accomplish it.

Once that’s done, I need to tackle rewriting Treadwell House. As I also mentioned in the 2024 goals assessment, I’ve gotten some good feedback on it, know what’s wrong with it, and how to fix it, but it will require quite a bit of work. Still, I love this story and I’m going to get it finished.

Being seriously optimistic, I’d like to get a start on the fifth and final book in the Market Center series. I already have a basic idea of the plot.

On the short story front, I’m hoping to build on my recent success with a few more new stories and continuing to submit older ones that have yet to find a home.

As noted before, I’m still working on the blogging regularly goal. I’ve been trying for two a week and was doing pretty well until we hit Thanksgiving. The holidays are always a hard time to keep up with anything writing-related, but this year I will try to keep up the two a week goal and have more in inventory. And the personal memoir hasn’t really moved forward much, so there’s that to work on, too.  It’s lower on the priority list, but still there.