Before I get to my belated goals for 2024 (hey, I still have almost eleven months left!), I need to review my 2023 goals and how I did with them.<\/p>\n
As I mentioned in some former posts, I broke my ankle back in August. I was incapacitated for the next six weeks or so, which should have been good writing time but wasn\u2019t. I\u2019ve found that the brain doesn\u2019t really want to work when the body is busy healing itself.<\/p>\n
So I didn\u2019t achieve my 2023 goals completely, but I made\u00a0 good progress.<\/p>\n
On the novel front, I\u2019ve finished the first draft of\u00a0Treadwell House<\/em><\/strong> and made one serious editing pass. I plan to start considering what I\u2019m going to do with it shortly. I\u2019d hoped to finish a second novel, but given the delay, I only just started on the second book, which will be the fourth in the Market Center Mysteries series, tentatively titled Unleashed for Murder<\/em><\/strong>. I wrote 8,000 words before I had to hang it up for the holidays. It\u2019s now at close to 15,000 words, on its way to being around 75,000.<\/p>\n I did meet my goal of 5 short stories written, though only one of them saw publication last year. My story, \u201cThe Other Wedding Crasher\u201d is part of the Malice, Matrimony & Murder\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a>anthology, which released last November. Order links here: \u00a0https:\/\/books2read.com\/malicebook<\/a> I did submit a couple of other stories, but have not gotten responses on those as yet.<\/p>\n Due to changes in the audiobooks market, I haven\u2019t been able to do an audio version of\u00a0A Vampire\u2019s Christmas Carol<\/em><\/strong><\/a> as I\u2019d hoped. But I did get an older Christmas short story out at the end of November.\u00a0The Ghosts of Christmas Present<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0was part of an anthology of Christmas romances a couple of years ago. I\u2019m giving it a new launch as a stand-alone. Order links here: https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/books\/short-stories\/the-ghosts-of-christmas-present\/<\/a><\/p>\n Otherwise, I\u2019ve done better with the blogging, though again I had a couple of long breaks this summer. My personal autobiography and family history project are in progress, but not finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before I get to my belated goals for 2024 (hey, I still have almost eleven months left!), I need to review my 2023 goals and how I did with them. As I mentioned in some former posts, I broke my …<\/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":[368,307,369],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","category-writing","tag-2023-goals","tag-malice","tag-matrimony-murder-the-ghosts-of-christmas-present"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","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=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}