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Underlined is the goal/task
Italic means wins (unless it's a title.)
Bold means fails
Italics and bold means progress
Finish Always | So, um, yeah, not yet. I took a break from writing due to another couple of viruses.
Read at least one book of the Bible... I am going to do better about my Bible reading, I am! | Read Luke! Well, my family took turns reading it each night, but I personally read the Bible myself.
Read a few books | I read a couple books, not many, but I read.
Launch Seize the Night | Done... There were some issues and even now I am still trying to get Amazon to work for the ebook, but otherwise it went well.
Blog tour for Seize the Night | Finished!
Write and edit my short story for Seize the Love | In progress... *facedesk* I seriously could do without the bugs my family has gotten, I have writing to do!
Do a blog post every day of the month for 31-for-31 Christmas Book Reviews | So, I failed this mostly... But I did do some of the posts and though I fell behind I am hopeful to do it in full next year. Cold aside I had various things interrupting my reading time in November and December so it wasn't as smooth as I hoped for reading.
Share the giveaway that is for both Seize the Night and 31-for-31 | Done! Sending it out in January.
Share, share, share about Seize the Love (info is coming during the blog tour!) | Did this, and am so excited to see what everyone has written. Though the submissions are still open here: https://forms.gle/N72492fXDenXwKhi7
Have Christmas with my family | This was a change in plans, we nearly did our family Christmas on Christmas Day, but it didn't feel right so we're doing our normal Christmas in January which couldn't have me happier!
Bake a pie or two and bake/cook my special stuff for Christmas, cook, and just bake. Use my Enjoy Life white chocolate chips wisely... I have the best Momma who got me an awesome order from them for my birthday. | I made lots of things this month! Turkey broth, ham and bean soup... Both of which were made in our big pots (64 quart pot for the ham and bean soup which ended up giving me 4 full gallon bags and the turkey broth was made in the 32 quart pot gave me nearly 4 full gallons of broth but I had to switch to the bigger pot.) so that's a bigger thing, lol. Made a single serve apple cobbler and a single serve chicken fajita casserole both of which were so good. Made one batch of cookies which were like sugar cookies with white chocolate chips, and I added different things to separate parts, I ended up with marshmallow lemon, chocolate crinkle, peppermint, cranberry, and pistachio. Other treats I made were white chocolate bark with different toppings, oreos, peppermint, chocolate peppermint cookies, and a few other candy like things. My DF/GF oreo truffles turned out just like the normal ones and that had me so happy! And I had left over chocolate and sugar so I made a tootsie roll like candy lightly coated in powdered sugar. Cooked some super yummy chicken fajita burritos, Cooking is something I've fallen in love with again except when sick, which meant I heated up lots of the turkey broth, had ham and bean soup, and made simple chicken soup with spices and lots of black pepper. I've started to consider sharing more about cooking/baking on here and not just as wins/goals/whatever, I'd love to hear if you'd like to see posts like that. And for New Year's Eve I did the roasts except for the potatoes so made two roasts since Mom had to help Dad and my bro with the "sick" bus aka a part broke.
Send out 2 newsletters | Actually did this one!
Post on social media (a sick number of times, lol. I kinda hate social media, if you can't tell.) | Eh, I did not share on social media as much as I wanted to, however I figured out some plans for 2023.
Now, that's all for my to do list in December.
I've debated sharing yearly goals, or really even making yearly goals and in the end, I like having abstract goals for 2023, so I'll share my yearly goals and my monthly goals, starting with my goals for January!
January Goals |
Finish my story for Seize the Love
Pick the stories for Seize the Love
Prep for launch for Seize the Love
Write 1,000 words a day
Finish current draft of Oh, The Lamented
Read my Bible daily
Bible journal every day
Read a book every day
Take a walk every day with or without Bear and/or Mona
Post on social media every day in January (do the #OnceUponABook2023 challenge)
Send out my newsletter
2023 Goals |
Get my license
Take a walk or go for a run every day
Finish writing, formatting, editing, and publish Oh, The Lamented
Write Ally's Hope and have it ready to publish in 2024
Do Kellyn Roth’s anthology
Read the whole Bible
Write, edit, format, and publish each of the three coming Seize the World anthologies
Read 52 books aside from the Bible
Do 31-for-31 Christmas Book Reviews
Do 2 blog posts a week at least
Do a creative project each month that isn't writing or on my laptop
Send a monthly or twice monthly author newsletter
Manage The Bookery better and do a full online shop with my website (aka upgrade my site.)
Write every day and do at least 295,000 words.
Journal (art, bullet, whatever… just journal!) every day
Set and stick to a schedule
Make a daily planner that I like and can work with
Keep up with book news
Join a few launch teams, blog tours, and support fellow authors in general
Keep up with social media
All in all my goals have ended up to be simple. For right now, at least, we'll see how it keeps going forward.
Do you have goals for 2023?
See ya, booknerds!
Abigail