Do you make resolutions for the new year? I do. I find they help me focus on which projects I want to complete and how I might get them into print. As an Indy writer, I don’t have contracts or editors waiting for my work. But I don’t want to just finish a WIP and set it aside.

For me, if I write a story and then don’t submit it or publish it, it would be like someone who avidly watched golf but never picked up a golf club themself. Or if someone had a wood working hobby and made a chair, but then put it in the garage without ever once sitting in it. Publication is the final phase of the work, and I can’t slack off from it.

The rule about my resolutions is that 1) they have to be specific, and 2) they have to be something I, myself, can control. So I can resolve to finish a WIP or submit my work to a certain magazine. But I cannot resolve to sell a story, because that is the editor’s decision, not mine.

So, what are my resolutions for 2026?

1) Finish the first draft of The Warlock’s Army. This has been my WIP for the past six months or so. I hope to complete the first draft before spring, and do revisions over the summer.

2) Publish a second Standing Stones. This will be a follow up to Standing Stones & Safety Zones, which was a two-in-one volume. I have enough work ready to produce a second volume in May.

3) Host Queen Titania’s Court in June of 2026. It’s an annual event I have a lot of fun with, it gets me a bit of publicity, and I plan to keep it going.

4) Make 3 or more public appearances. One of them will be a dealer’s or artist alley table. I do pretty well selling books when I can talk directly to the public.

5) Project X. This goal is again vague. I would like to have a publication in November of 2026, but I don’t know what it might be. Finishing all the revisions on The Warlock’s Army seems like pushing too much, too fast. Yet I don’t really have the two short works I would need for a third Standing Stones volume. I’ll just have to see what inspiration the new year has to offer.

I hope you have some specific, achievable goals of your own for 2026!

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