Let's Start 2015 Right

Happy New Year! 

It's not only the first Wednesday of the month, but it's the first Wednesday of a new year, and I predict 2015 is going to be great for all of us. Today, I'm combining my Insecure Writer's Support Group post with some simple goals. If you're not familiar with IWSG, it's pretty amazing. You can learn more about the group by clicking here.  As always, I'd like to thank Alex Cavanaugh and this month's hosts.

I hope you enjoyed the holidays. Mine were very nice, and my husband and I even managed to get our four boys together for Christmas. (Something that doesn't happen often with them being older.) It was a lot of fun to have them all here at the same time. But, with the holidays past, it's time to get back into good routines.

I checked my goals for 2014. I met my networking goals, exceeded my reading goals, and sort of met my writing goals. I finished revising the MG novel I mentioned, although I haven't done much to shop it around. I completed the first draft of my contemporary YA, but it's far from ready to be seen by my agent. And I never get to the NA novel I want to write. I did, however, write and sell book three in my Embrace series. While that's not exactly what I had written in my 2014 goals, I'm happy with what I did accomplish.

My goals this year:

• Continue to visit as many blogs as I can.
• Read at least two books a month.
• Launch Entwined, the third book in my series.
• Polish my contemporary YA.
• Exercise regularly.
• Visit somewhere new.

This list is a work in progress. :)  

As far as insecurities. I'd like to say I'm all good. It's always nice to start the year off that way, but I just finished the first round of revisions on Entwined and I will admit there's a chapter I'm not so sure about. I'm hoping my doubts are because I reread the chapter several times while working on revisions. So, to keep myself from making changes that I may regret later, I sent my revisions back to my editor with a note about my concerns to get her thoughts. In a few weeks, when the scene isn't fresh in my head, I'll revisit it. Fingers crossed it flows good.

How are you doing this month? Any insecurities? Did you meet your goals for 2014? Do you set new year's resolutions?

P.S.: I must have missed the request for IWSG members to introduce ourselves. So I'm adding it here...

By day, I'm a senior technical support technician. That's a fancy way of saying I work in IT. By night, and really anytime I'm not working at my day job, I enjoy being with family, hanging with friends, and writing young adult fiction. I have three paranormal romance/thrillers out: Embrace, Hold Tight and Challenging Destiny. The first two are part of a series with the third book coming out this April. I've been writing for almost ten years. My husband is the one who coaxed me into writing my first novel, which is not one of my published works. At the time, I wasn't thinking of publication, but I enjoyed writing so much I kept going. I'm also an active member of SCBWI.