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I should start off by saying that I’m not a big one on New Year’s Resolutions. I do have a lot of goals for the upcoming year, but I wouldn’t call them “resolutions.” I like to think of them as a “work in progress”; constantly changing, constantly updated to be relevant and to take the ups and downs of day-to-day life into consideration.

Having said that, what I like to do at the beginning of the year is to look back and see what I’ve accomplished. I have to say, this last year has been a good one for me.

In 2008, I had my first short story published. Not only that, I also had seven additional short stories published. That’s eight in all. Not bad.

I also wrote a lot of short stories, fourteen in all. That’s a lot of writing.

I also wrote a 55,000 word novel during the month of November for the National Novel Writing Month. I am pleased with the way the novel came out but I still have a lot of work to do on it. This was the third year I’ve participated.

But that was the only novel I wrote, but I did polish up another of my novels and I bean to shop it around, looking for an agent. That’s a lot of work.

I attended the Agents and Editors Conference for the second time this year. I really got a lot out of it this time and it was a great experience.

So last year was good…really good. So I guess if I had to make a resolution for 2009, it would be to have a better year than last year.

~Doug