Happy 2023 New Year!
How the years go. Three years ago my New Year’s resolution was to write every day until I had finished that woeful first draft of my novel, The Tale of the Starbreather’s Realm. It took almost all of 2020, but it was so worth it. Most of 2021 was spent editing (because the initial rough drafts were just THAT rough!) and then 2022 was largely an off year. But it is time for me to get back on this horse. Thus, again, this year’s resolution is to write something, anything, every day in order to get back into the groove. Even if it’s just with something simple like my little New Year’s haiku there. 😅 Here is to many 2023 adventures, literary and otherwise! 📝📖🌻
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