Children’s author Julie Hedlund challenged participants of her 12 Days of Christmas for Writers series to post 2020 SUCCESSES (rather than resolutions) on our blogs this year. She believes traditional New Year’s resolutions come from a place of negativity. They focus on what DIDN’T get done or achieved in the previous year.  Instead, she suggests we set goals for the New Year that BUILD on our previous years’ achievements. I decided to participate in this Anti-Resolution Revolution! Here is my list for 2020:

1. Published Leaving Hope.
2. Published Songs of Healing.
3. Wrote and sent out a bi-monthly newsletter beginning in June.
4. Finished and revised a draft of DragonPets: The Sacrifice.
5. Wrote two new picture book manuscripts
6. Revised two (different) picture book drafts.
7. Put out a new chapter of Hope Gardens at least twice a month.
8. Learned how to format manuscripts for Kindle, epub, and print.
9. Held a fun book launch party.
10. Designed covers I like for a Channillo Channel and for Hope Gardens.
11. Made a book trailer.
12. Started networking with readers and other authors on a variety of social media platforms.
13. Received multiple four and five star reviews for my books on Amazon and Goodreads

    How about you? What are your 2020 Successes? I’d love to hear them, so if you’re willing to share, please leave a comment with yours (or if you’ve done a blog post like mine, feel free to link to it in the comments.