Heading Into The New Year / Happenings In The Outhouse 29-Dec-2023

At my day job, I ask my team members to look ahead to 2024.  What strategies are you putting in place to win?

The same goes for my own writing.

I have a strategy.  This strategy I am keeping to myself, but in a nutshell it involves focusing on writing, finishing, and submitting short stories to the short story market.

What are your plans for 2024?

Holiday Happenings / Happenings In The Outhouse 22-Dec-2023

This week, I finished a short story.  I'm submitting it as part of a Kickstarter campaign I helped to fund.  It was originally going to be part of another short story submission, but this one fit better.

As we get closer and closer to Christmas, my family and I have been watching a long line-up of Christmas-themed movies.  From Christmas with the Kranks and Deck the Halls to A Christmas Story and Elf and everything else in between.

Making memories.

What do you think of when you think of the holidays?  From your childhood?

Merry Christmas!!!

Hitting Reset / Happenings In The Outhouse 15-Dec-2023

Keeping this one short again today.

As I reviewed the quarterly goals I had set, not only did I achieve a few, there were ones I hadn't even tackled.  It's okay.  A lot happened in the last three months of 2023.

But at the same time, I achieved quite a bit as far as learning, short stories written AND submitted.

Onward, and upward . . .

What Does Your 2024 Look Like? / Happenings In The Outhouse 08-Dec-2023

 What does your 2024 look like?

And more importantly, what does it take to get there?

Be realistic in your goals, but at the same time push yourself a little too.  Knowing my limits and all the people/places that are vying for my time, it would be unrealistic to say that I want to finish and send out one short story a week.

But, I could push myself and say I could write two a month.  That's twenty-four in a single year.  Very doable.

Once again, think about your 2024.  What does it look like?

Another Story Done and Looking Ahead to 2024 / Happenings In The Outhouse 01-Dec-2023

Another short story has been completed, sent off for publication consideration, and I am now working on the next one or three.  I do have three short stories planned out (all of these were done while sitting in the deer stand, waiting for that big buck to come along but didn't).  It's just to sit down and write them.

And, of course, there are other stories that crop up from time to time.  Ah, life as a writer . . .

Looking forward to 2024, I will be following the same path as I am now, which is focusing more on short stories and submitting them for publication in the short story market.