Here we are, halfway through 2025! How are all y’all doing on your January resolutions?

I started late on the daily writing/social media thing, but I’ve been faithful since January 24. I don’t know if it’s working to boost an audience, but I’ve definitely got a backlog of content.

I finished the first draft of my novel. Now I’m just waiting for a bunch of beta readers to send me critiques. I’m hoping I’ll be ready to pitch it to agents in August. I haven’t had the heart to set a calendar for how long I’ll field rejections; I guess six months might be reasonable? I’ve forgotten the average time it take for an agent to blow off a pitch, so I’ll be playing that by ear.

I am very inconsistent on my golf game. But that is an improvement over consistently bad, so I’ll take it.

I have not practiced my cake baking as much as I’d hoped, so I haven’t improved that skill as much as I would have liked to. Despite a lack of cake, I have not lost the weight I hoped to. But I haven’t gained any back, which is nice. I’ll work harder on that for the next six months; just in time to pig out for the holidays!

Since I’ve had a lot of these resolutions for literally years, I’m not going to say I’ll be ready for a slew of new ones in December, but hey, worth a shot, right?