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I\u2019ve mentioned before that I don\u2019t make New Year\u2019s resolutions. I used to, then found I never kept them after a month or so. In place of those, I set goals for myself for the year. I try to keep them reasonable and specific. Things I know I can do with possibly a bit more effort.<\/p>\n
Before I make my list for this coming year, I like to look back at least year\u2019s goals to assess how I did with them.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m pleased to say that while I didn\u2019t reach all of the goals I set, I did accomplish several of them and made reasonable progress toward most of the others.<\/p>\n
My primary goal last year was to finish Falling for the Deputy<\/em><\/strong> and Playing at Murder<\/em><\/strong> since each was due for release. Then I wanted to get a good start on a new book that might be that start of a new series.<\/p>\n I\u2019m happy to say \u201cmission accomplished\u201d for this one. Falling for the Deputy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0 released in March of 2022, and Playing at Murder <\/em><\/strong><\/a>was published in October!\u00a0 Before I had to hang up the writing for the holidays, I was 25,000 words into a new novel, tentatively titled Treadwell House \u2013 Sanctuary<\/em>.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t do as well on the plan to write five short stories.\u00a0 I actually wrote three and a half. So far none of the three completed ones have found a home. One of them remains unfinished and may stay that way. The idea didn\u2019t work out as well as I\u2019d hoped.<\/p>\n I mentioned investigating doing audiobooks. I\u2019m still working on that. I\u2019m trying to start with one novella, A Vampire\u2019s Christmas Carol<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, in hopes of having it ready for next Christmas season. So far I\u2019ve listened to a number of auditions, but haven\u2019t yet found a narrator I\u2019m happy with.<\/p>\n On the personal side I set a goal to finish my project of scanning the family photo albums, and that one I also accomplished. Each of my children and adult grandchildren received a flash drive with the entire set of pictures from the family albums. The quest to reduce the number of books and other stuff I have is ongoing, but progress has been made<\/p>\n In a day or two I\u2019ll share my goals for the coming year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve mentioned before that I don\u2019t make New Year\u2019s resolutions. I used to, then found I never kept them after a month or so. In place of those, I set goals for myself for the year. I try to keep …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,204],"tags":[300],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","category-writing","tag-2022-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}