A
Look Back and a Look Into the Future
2020
has got to be a better year than 2019. For me, 2019 will be a most forgettable
year. A writer's life is not always easy, and I hope for each lousy year, I
will have two or three good ones. One exciting thing for me is that I now have
lived in every decade except the 30s. It might be a stretch for me to make that
one, but who knows?
After
years of writing around 300,000 words, this year was but a few thousand. The consequences of writing less showed up in
my sales, which were about half of the past few years, as were my Kindle Unlimited
pages read. At times I thought maybe I had given up writing, but now I’m not
sure. It might have had more to do with me than with writing. I not only wrote
less, but I also gave up on a few other pursuits and hobbies. Physical ailments
kept me from walking much and slowed me down from other things like photography
and playing golf – looking back at 2019, I really didn’t do much of what has
become my norm. But, there is always a bright side, we did some traveling, and I
read quite a few good books, watched many fantastic movies, smoked some meat,
completed some woodworking projects, and liked our terrific garden. I also
enjoyed birthday number 71 – at my age, every birthday is excellent.
Writers
are as bad as any other group at making and then not keeping New Year’s Resolutions.
I have never lasted over a few weeks on any that I made. I do hope that the New
Year will be a good one. Maybe I will get around to finishing and publishing
the two books I have that have sat gathering dust for the past year. Each of these books is within a few days of
being completed.
My
New Year’s Resolution – Enjoy life --- As
Dr. Seuss so aptly said, “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another
one.”
Today's
photos are from an outing earlier this week in Guernsey State Park a few miles
from where we live.
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