Happy New Year!

Any day can be the first day of a new year, if you start a new year that day. There can be no end of new beginnings.

But eventually everyone has to finish some things–this is a sad truth, one that I am attempting to face right now. For instance, I want to finish moving. We moved to this place a year ago and there are still some things in boxes. I want to finish a lot of stories. People are asking me for Tempo, the story that tugs at my heart that I started writing during NaNoWriMo 2010, likewise Piper’s Private Writing School. My oldest daughter wants me to finish Johnny Angel’s Halo and Accidental Immigrant, two funny stories I wrote a long time ago but haven’t yet finished the edits on. I want to finish Her Thirty Percent, too, a humorous and naughty tale that was also a NaNoWriMo in the beginning.

I have finished a few things since October, when I started my account at smashwords. I’ve got a free cookbook there for fast meal prep, a couple of stories, a flash fiction collection, a novel I’ve published before.

Beginnings and endings, yeah, but there are a lot of things to take care of in the middle. Instead of working on those troublesome middles, I spend a pile of time playing games. My favorite one lately is Torn, a text-based crime game. I know I look like a nice little old lady (a facebook friend actually told me that! I sure as hell am not little or old) but I am in actuality a tough black-market flower and plushie dealer. Check me out and join me on Torn.

If you have read some of my stuff, I’d love to hear from you. Let me know what you’d like to see more of. It might influence me for getting busy in 2016.

Photo above is of Mount Rainier in Washington with a lenticular cloud above, taken at sunset. Lenticular clouds mean that precipitation is coming within 48 hours. I got this photo on a site that gives away free desktop photos and no photographer credit was given.