In Which We Examine 2018 and Look Towards 2019

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I am … significantly not ready for 2018. Like, I don’t know why, but it feels like … it was literally just 2017?

Oh, well. This year has really flown, and so much has happened that it’s almost overwhelming! There have been sad moments, bad moments, happy moments, triumphant moments …

Let’s get into it!

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Welcome to my 2019 Goals and Resolutions Post!

However, before we go forward, we must glance back. (That’s completely against my just-move-forward nature, but whatever.)

My 2018 Goals … how did I do?


Publish At Her Fingertips.

CHECK!

Hoorah! That went well, now, didn’t it?





Rewrite Beyond Her Calling.

CHECK!

I mean, I more like … edited it … because I decided it wasn’t as bad as I thought … but yeah.





Publish Beyond Her Calling.

CHECK!

DONE AND DONE!





Write and begin editing Alice Unanswered.

KINDA …

So I began writing it, but decided to rewrite it, and yep.





Finish writing Once a Stratton.

CHECK!

… and edited it and submitted it to a couple agents!





Write two other full-length novels.

CHECK!

Souls Astray, The Lady of the Vineyard, and a bunch of shorter stories. (See my writing update for this year.)





Participate in Camp NaNo and NaNoWriMo.

CHECK!

VERY WELL IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF.





Cut down on procrastination while writing, editing, etc.

KINDA …

I don’t really know?
I spent a lot of the year procrastinating, then wrote 118K in one month. So it kinda evens out?





Make a plan for your next couple years in writing.

CHECK!

Well, sort of, anyway. As close to plans as this girl will ever get!





Practice the clarinet and saxophone.

CHECK!

Well, I did … once or twice …





Graduate from high school.

CHECK!

This wasn’t optional, but yeah.





Make a budget and stick to it.

CHECK!

I mean, I never spend money – that’s a kind of a budget, right?





Read less – but read quality.

KINDA …

I’m not really sure? I read less than last year for sure, but I didn’t read tons of classics or anything.





Get 818 followers on Reveries.

CHECK!

I actually got 1,014 … so there, low expectations.





Blog more regularly on Reveries Reviews.

FAILED!

But only because I decided mid-year to discontinue Reveries Reviews and combine blogs!





Enjoy this summer – but be semi-productive.

Kinda …

I don’t remember doing anything productive all summer, but maybe I did? I don’t know?





Start a Bible study.

Failed!

I think I mostly just … didn’t want to.