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Well, 2024 wasn\u2019t that great for reaching my goals, but I\u2019m starting this year with the optimistic hope that I\u2019ll be more productive.<\/p>\nWell, 2024 wasn\u2019t that great for reaching my goals, but I\u2019m starting this year with the optimistic hope that I\u2019ll be more productive.<\/p>\n
So, obviously, goal one is to finish Unleashed for Murder<\/strong><\/em>, the fourth book in the Market Center Mysteries<\/a><\/strong> 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\u2019t really want to pursue those until I\u2019ve finished the current work in progress. It stands at 50K words of a projected 70 to 75K, so there isn\u2019t that much left to do. I even know what needs to happen. I just have to figure out how to accomplish it.<\/p>\n Once that\u2019s done, I need to tackle rewriting Treadwell House<\/strong><\/em>. As I also mentioned in the 2024 goals assessment, I\u2019ve gotten some good feedback on it, know what\u2019s wrong with it, and how to fix it, but it will require quite a bit of work. Still, I love this story and I\u2019m going to get it finished.<\/p>\n Being seriously optimistic, I\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n On the short story front, I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n As noted before, I\u2019m still working on the blogging regularly goal. I\u2019ve 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\u2019t really moved forward much, so there\u2019s that to work on, too. \u00a0It\u2019s lower on the priority list, but still there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, 2024 wasn\u2019t that great for reaching my goals, but I\u2019m starting this year with the optimistic hope that I\u2019ll be more productive. So, obviously, goal one is to finish Unleashed for Murder, the fourth book in the Market Center …<\/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":[3,203,204],"tags":[408,382,370],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-goals","category-writing","tag-408","tag-treadwell-house","tag-unleashed-for-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","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=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}