End of Year Writing Check In

Here were are with another year almost behind us. Whew, what a ride!

I'll be heading off to Galaxy Con Columbus tomorrow for a long weekend of peopling. My last weekend away until February. Woohoo! I'm looking forward to my hibernating months.

Before we get to this month's IWSG post, we have a few follow up items to attend to.

First up: How did November writing month go? I did manage to get in 52K new words on Siphon, which is now sitting at 71K and probably has another 10-15K to go. I'm enjoying this story and it and a conversation with a friend inspired yet another writing project that I need to get a jump on before mid-January for reasons related to a certain book club meeting. *rubs hands together, grinning madly*

Then let's check in with this year's writing goals:

Publish Nugget the Space Chicken - DONE and a second book in the series! Bonus points!

Publish I9 - DONE!

Finish writing Godmother - Total fail. I haven't even touched it. There go those bonus points. :(

Finish writing Interface (Shaking my head at this one. Poor Interface) - I did a few chapters of this cleaned up and through my local critique group and I sort of know where it needs to go now. But finished? Nope. FAIL

Successfully juggle enough book stock for all those events - It was tight and I did run out of a few different titles at various events but the benefits of having so many titles, I plenty of other books in stock. So will go with win.

Read two books a month - I got close to accomplishing this, but not every month. I did read at least one every month so not a total fail.

Keep working on the overgrown flower garden - I did make continued progress on the flower hill. Much effort is still required but it's looking not so wild out there anymore so I'll call it a win.

And now this month's Insecure Writer's Support Group Question:

If you're not familiar with 

the Insecure Writers Support 

Group, check it out here 

and find links to all the 

other participating writers.

As a writer what is the best gift you've ever received?

Conversations with readers who have enjoyed my books. Followed closely by posted reviews.  Personally, I love the conversations, but in terms of helping me sell books, reviews are a wonderful gift to give an author. 

What has been your favorite writer gift?

Tune in next month for my 2026 writing goals. 

Which means I should start thinking about those. LOL