Last year I set some fairly high goals for myself. And now I’ll go over what they were and how I did.

• Write Dragon Story – This I managed to do early on in the year. I plan on making this a series, however this was a neverending story, so I need to reassess this story and find a cut off point and decide what I want to keep and what can go into the next book.
• Write Faith’s Story – This I achieved as well, in early October.
• Write another story – in November I wrote and completed Hope’s story in the Racing Harts series, so really pleased with this.
• Edit Second-Hand Daughter – not only did I edit this, but I published it as well in May 2024
• Edit Compromising Positions – edits were completed and was published November 2024
• First draft edit of Finding Sam Healey – These I started, but I haven’t completed them yet. I have a date with the editor for March 2025, so it will be published next year.
• First draft edits of Carol’s Christmas – this hasn’t happened, but I’m not too upset about that.

Overall, that isn’t a bad year considering I was working fulltime for most of it. The results are pretty epic. At this stage, I have yet to find another job, so I now have to have a real think about what I want to achieve heading forward. I would love to be able to quit work and write fulltime, however I have some limitations as far as that is concerned (will talk about in a future blog post), and to start making money from my writing, I might have to write to market, which isn’t where my heart is. I want to write what I want to write, and that means that I need to find readers who want to read my work, and that proved elusive this year. I guess I could focus on writing in the first quarter of next year and really push my publishing timetable, but I also don’t want to burn out.

It’s a fine line between doing something you love for money and doing something you love for the enjoyment of writing. I guess it is something I really need to work out over the next couple of weeks as we start the full on countdown to Christmas.