Howdy, Merry Go Round Tour visitors!  Back in January, I posted some goals, and this month, we’re checking up on how I’m doing in meeting those goals.  A little mid-year update, if you will.

Here are the goals I posted in January:

•  Finish revision of Polar Bear on the Loose, and, thus, the “How To Revise Your Novel” course I started, ummmm, several years ago.
• Write 26 short stories or character sketches for the Blogging A-Z Challenge in April.
• Publish the RandR Fiction Club newsletter bi-monthly.
• Plan my next novel to revise.
• Polish five of the best stories from the A-Z Challenge and publish them as an anthology.

Here’s where I stand on each one:

• I am on Lesson 19 in the “How To Revise Your Novel” course and the Polar Bear on the Loose revision.  I finally finished Lesson 17 and worked quickly through Lesson 18, really liking what I found.  These last three lessons are polishing, and I hope to make good progress through them.  I’m optimistic this goal is on track.
• I successfully completed the April blogging challenge.  Maybe I should begin planning for next year?
• The RandR Fiction Club newsletter is on target.  Next issue ships on September 2.
• I have not begun to plan the next novel to revise.  I have begun the “How To Write A Series Expansion” course, and I’m using that course to develop and write a Kitty City series.
• I have not picked five stories for an A-Z Blogging Challenge anthology yet, which means I have not published one either.

Not bad for a mid-year gut check.  I see I have some goals I’ve drifted from, but I have time to work on them.