Friday Done List December 26

Christmas Eve yoga spot

We got through Christmas without death, dying, or general illness! Hurray! I forgot to take pictures of 

our dessert bar or my sister. But I did get an hour of yin yoga on the Solstice and a half hour Christmas Eve. How chill was that? 

Goal 1. Write and Publish Adult Short Stories, Essays, and Humor

• I completed my Advent Project. One of my most successful Advent Projects as far as making me feel that I was both working and living through Christmas preparations without undue suffering. It remains to be seen if any of these beginning essays/humor pieces/book chapters will ever be published.
• Had my last essay of the year published at Books Are Our Superpower. A Native American Writer Opened My Mind to Literary Horror is a rewrite of an Original Content blog post.

Goal 2. Build Community/Market Work/Brand Myself and My Work

• Wrote and published a Time Management Tuesday post.
• Promoted the Literary Horror publication to Facebook and BlueSky.

Goal 3. Submit book-length Work to Agents and Editors 

• I spent last night with a 5-year-old houseguest who didn't want to sleep by herself. So sometime in the night or this morning (I actually woke up before she did) I was in bed with this kid who was sleeping while I wasn't. So, instead, I was reading (on my iPad) an article on Medium about how to use Manuscript Wishlist to find agents. Using methods I haven't been using. I thought, well, maybe I should consider doing one of these nonAI things next year and sending out some more submissions. Except I didn't save the link (I think someone else in the bed woke up), and I don't know where the link was, and now I have to spend some time looking for it. Hey, that's thinking about a goal, and I'm claiming it. UPDATE: I found it! It didn't take long, either.