How go the resolutions?

Some of you, fellow Musers and readers, might remember me. I’m a long-ish time, very proud member of this blog who hasn’t been seen or heard from for ages because I’ve been on a deadline for two months. Add my run at National Novel Writing Month in November, and that’s even longer I’ve been AWOL.

Two months of deadline? Well, yes. Why? Because I have a book-by-book contract system going with Avon at the moment, and I’m sorta kinda free to set some of my own deadlines. And when I set my own dea...