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So, obviously, this is a bit late, but then it\u2019s goal-setting and not new year\u2019s resolutions. I can set those up whenever I want. Right? Anyway, here we are.<\/p>\nSo, obviously, this is a bit late, but then it\u2019s goal-setting and not new year\u2019s resolutions. I can set those up whenever I want. Right? Anyway, here we are.<\/p>\n
My first goal for the year is to finish the fourth book in the Market Center Mysteries series, tentatively titled Unleashed for Murder<\/em><\/strong>. It currently stands at 15,000 words as I make my way to a probable length of around 75,000 words. More on this book in a future post.<\/p>\n I hope to finish it in time to get well into writing a second book, though I don\u2019t know what that will be as yet. I always have ideas floating around in my head, so I\u2019ll have to see what\u2019s rising to the surface when I\u2019m ready for it.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve decided to give traditional publishing a try with Treadwell House – Sanctuary<\/strong><\/em>, since it\u2019s in a genre (or actually a combination of genres) that is currently hot, with a number of current best-sellers. This will mean lots of queries and likely lots of rejections, but that\u2019s par for the course. I\u2019m giving it this year to see what happens.<\/p>\n As I did last year, I hope to add five more short stories to my inventory. And a few more submissions of those. It also means I\u2019ll collect lots of rejections as well, but at least I\u2019m trying.<\/p>\n A project I have going with my grandson involves writing several short dragon stories for pictures he\u2019s drawing. I\u2019m quite excited about this!<\/p>\n I\u2019ve done better this year with the blog posts and plan to try to keep up regular posting. The blog doesn\u2019t get a huge amount of traffic, but enough to make it worth the effort.<\/p>\n Last on the writing front is that family background and personal memoir work that is about a third done. I doubt I\u2019ll finish it this year, but if I could get over halfway that would feel like good progress.<\/p>\n Finally, the constant quest to clean out and get rid of stuff. I have made progress, but there\u2019s still so much to eliminate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, obviously, this is a bit late, but then it\u2019s goal-setting and not new year\u2019s resolutions. I can set those up whenever I want. Right? Anyway, here we are. My first goal for the year is to finish the fourth …<\/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":[3,57,203,204],"tags":[310,370],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dragons","category-goals","category-writing","tag-treadwell-house-sanctuary","tag-unleashed-for-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}