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Hello Readers,
Doesn’t time fly. Another year has passed and a new one has begun. I truly hope that the New Year brings you all happiness, good times, and great memories that you can look back on in the years that are yet to come.
Happy Reading,
With best wishes from me, here in Australia.
Wishing all my readers a very happy New Year. I hope 2023 brings you lots of fun, laughter, and happiness!
Hello Readers,
Well, we’ve made it through another year, and what a shocker of a year it has been. Covid has forced many changes onto us, yet we are resilient and continue to adapt. It is what we do. So, however your life has changed, continue to move forward and appreciate what you’ve got. Enjoy the pleasures life has to offer, however simple they may be.
I truly hope that 2021 is a better year for all of us.
Happy reading!
Hello Readers,
I hope you have had an amazing festive season and are all ready for the year ahead. As I mentioned in my last post, I was going to take a look at what I achieved last year and set some new goals for the year ahead.
So here’s what I accomplished in 2019:
I met my goal to write 4 short stories,
I am just about half way through my double diploma,
I got a new job,
I have made 3 new author collaboration contacts,
I increased my mailing list from 350 to 959 (smashing my goal of 600),
I read 13 books (1 more than my target),
I garnered 11 new reviews.
And here are the goals I didn’t quite reach:
I didn’t get to finish 2 stories that have been on the back burner for some time now,
While I managed to get a new job, I gave it up 4 months later because it just wasn’t what I was looking for and I am yet to find another,
Although I am about half way through my double diploma, I had planned to have it completed by the end of 2019,
I did not hit my target of 12 new author collaboration contacts,
I didn’t manage to release the anthology of short stories I was planning,
I didn’t hit my goal for reviews I wanted to garner.
That’s quite a bit not achieved isn’t it? Well, I still consider this a success. I had set goals on what I wanted to achieve through 2019 and this gave me some direction. While I didn’t achieve them all, I did make progress. Progress I may not have made if I didn’t set the goals to start with. I am sorry I didn’t release anything new over the year, but considering the tumultuous year I’ve had with redundancy and job seeking, I am pleased with the progress I have made.
Now, what’s on the cards for 2020? These are the goals I have set myself:
Find a new job,
Target to write 6000 words a week,
Gain 10 new reviews,
Get my 4 short stories edited,
Create and release anthology of 10 short stories,
Finish 2 partially completed stories,
Read 12 new books,
Write 12 reviews.
As you probably noticed, I have carried across most of the goals from last year in a hope to complete them this year. A lot will swing on getting a new job, as the time taken searching and applying for roles is quite substantive and I will need a steady income to pay for editing, but I am hopeful I will get there.
So, what are your goals for the new year?
Allan Walsh writes Fantasy and Horror. If you’re looking for something new to read in these genres, why not check out his books here. You can also find his titles available in libraries.
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Hello Readers,
Wow! Another year over. It seems to have flown past. Why is it that time seems to go so much faster the older you get? Whatever the cause, it is all the more reason to make each and every year count. I hope you had a fantastic year and achieved some great things. Now is a good time to reflect on all the things you achieved and to set new goals to make the most of the year ahead. That’s just what I am going to do, so keep an eye out for my post on that, it will be out soon.
In the mean time, I wish you all a fantastic new year and hope you achieve all your goals, whatever they may be.
Thank you for following my blog,
Allan.
Happy New Year.
Allan Walsh writes Fantasy and Horror. If you’re looking for something new to read in these genres, why not check out his books here. You can also find his titles available in libraries.
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Hello Readers,
Happy New Year! Wow, another year is behind us. Doesn’t time seem to have travelled so fast when you look back on it and yet the end of 2019 seems so far away right now. No doubt that when we look back on this new year it will have flown by too.
My 2018 has been busy, but it was not as productive as I would have liked on the writing front. While I have added to a few novels I have been working on, I only finished 1 non-fiction title and a new short story. I haven’t published the short as I want to put into an anthology of tales I’ve written. This year I think I’ll sit down and plan out a schedule to complete the goals I want to achieve by the end of next year.
So, let’s have a look at some of the events and things I achieved over 2018:
And there you have it. It’s not an extensive list, but more than enough to give you a feel for what I’ve been up to. I hope I can make 2019 a more productive year. I feel I have set some strong foundations over 2018 and once I have my schedule planned out it will keep me on track for a great year to be. I wish you all the very best for your 2019 and hope it is your best year ever, whatever your goals and dreams are.
Happy Reading.