New Year’s Resolutions: #MFRWAuthor Blog Challenge, Week 52
Hooray! We made it to week 52 in the blog challenge, wherein we share our New Year’s Resolutions! Here’s a short and sweet list to close out 2017 and kick off 2018.
Father Time and Baby New Year
Resolutions:
Business
- Publish Book 4 in my Sons of the Spy Lord Series
- Finish and publish Book 5 in my Sons of the Spy Lord Series
- Finish and publish my Leap Year story (Okay, I know it’s not a leap year, but who knows where I’ll be in 2020? And this story has been eating at me since 2016!) This project is looking pretty iffy.
- Finish a project for Kindle Worlds
- Work on one more writing project for a possible anthology
- Master Amazon Ads, or whatever the next big thing is in advertising
- Manage my promoting time better
Personal
- Spend more time with my family
- Eat less and better
- Exercise more
- Take a shovel to my garage, shelves, and closets—just kidding, but it’s past time for one of those periodic haul-aways.
- Do more knitting and sewing
- Say no to all new volunteer “opportunities”.
Ruins, Teutonic Knights Castle, Torun, Poland
Wish List:
Aside from these resolutions, my Polish/American hubby and I are talking about trying to swing a visit to Poland. I have two conferences in my sights also, the 20 to 50K conference in November, and the Historical Romance Retreat at the Mission Inn in Riverside, CA. Keeping my fingers crossed on these!
And what about the 2018 Blog Hop?
If you notice, blogging wasn’t on my list, but I expect I’ll be doing plenty of that. On January 14, 2018, I’ll celebrate the fifth anniversary of this blog. I didn’t post consistently the first couple of years, but I plan to stick with the every Tuesday posting schedule. I’ll participate in the 2018 MFRW hop as much as possible also.
If you’ve been following the 2017 MFRW Author Blog Hop challenge, I hope you’ve enjoyed the posts. It’s been a privilege to share these Friday topics with a great group of fellow authors, and to get to know them. To my fellow blog hoppers, I hope to meet all of you in person someday at future conferences!
Let’s see what my fellow MFRW Authors have on their 2018 lists:
Wishing all of you a happy and prosperous 2018!
Images: Blog Hop meme, courtesy of MFRW; Father Time, Wikimedia Commons; 2018 meme, Stencil; Torun, Lestat (Jan Mehlich), Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons
Good luck with your resolutions- sounds like a great year ahead!
We’ll see! the hardest ones are on the personal front.
Good luck meeting all your resolutions! I hope you and hubby can make that trip.
Thanks, Sherry. He’s working on a plan right now.
Good luck with all your plans for 2018! A trip sounds wonderful. I’ll be attending my very first conference this year. With the Twitter CP group I’m a part of, we all made plans to attend the RWA conference in Denver. I’m excited because I’ve never done one and I’ll get to meet those ladies in person.
Hope you can make your trip happen. I’ll have to go looking for the info for the 2018 hop. Happy New Year
There’s so much energy at RWA nationals! Have fun!
Great list. Good luck meeting them all and then some. Have a happy, healthy and prolific new year.
Thanks, Shari. We’ll see how I do.
Good luck with all your resolutions (I’ll join you on the “take a shovel” one – it’s on my list, too, lol). I hope you get to Poland – I’m looking forward to reading about it on your blog. Happy New Year!
Thanks, Robin. That decluttering goal is the one I shove to the bottom of the list far too often.
The best of luck with all of your projects and wishing you a wonderful 2018!!
Thanks, Valerie!
That’s a very impressive list, Alina. I especially like “say NO to all volunteer opportunities.” I didn’t do that last year, and now I’m stuck with more “opportunities” for 2018 than I really want.
I’m in that boat too, Ed. That one ought to be easy but I still struggle with saying no.
It sounds like a productive year ahead. Best of luck in 2018. Congrats on five years of blogging!