So did I keep my resolutions?

A year ago, I set myself some goals for 2012. Time to find out how I did...

Finish Dust & Water and have it on sale by the end of the year. Um... no. I wanted to have the first draft done by 30 June, and I missed that one too. I finished it on 13 September, and am currently editing. I'm hoping to be done with that by the end of January. If I manage it, even though I missed the initial deadline, it'll still be the fastest I've ever finished a book.

Finish a short story. I didn't write any more of the one I was working on over Christmas last year, mainly because of all the other writing I was doing.

Read at least 15 books. I blew through this one - I managed 54.

Visit Dublin. Didn't get around to this either.

Become better at photography. I didn't make any special effort to do this.

Migrate my desktop computer to 64-bit Linux. Done.

Give blood at least once. I donated twice.

So that's three out of seven, which means I need to put more effort into reaching my goals next year... or pick resolutions that are easier to keep!

Of course, there are two big achievements that weren't on my list at the start of the year, which were publishing Escape Velocity and making a book trailer for it. This has actually been my most successful title so far, mainly thanks to KDP Select. So overall I think I've had a worthwhile year.

Come back in a few days to see what I've got planned for 2013...