I wrote about this in a different post, but I thought I’d break it out into its own. It’s important. It’s my main goal for 2025, and it deserves its own space. :)
Time to move on; time to finish; time to start fresh
I’ve set a goal this year to finish as many works in progress as I can, preferably every last one of them. I’m talking specifically about those that I started before the end of 2024, but I’ve already added in a few new ones for 2025. I like to write short stories, and I’m not going to stop just because I’m trying to finish some novels, novellas and a few other short stories. And the novel ideas, well, they just keep coming.
I have several series, and in each one, I have a tendency to start the next book right after finishing the last. Then I run out of momentum on it or start feeling like I need to write a different book instead, because of need or expectation, so I leave it hanging until I can get back to it in the rotation (or whenever I decide I’ve had enough and am going to finish it anyway).
This year, I want to get some of those books out of the way. All of them, in fact. But I’ll settle for most.
It might be that I’ll always have a stack of WIPs waiting for me even if I get the old ones out of the way. It might not be preventable. :D But it would be nice to have a fresh start in 2026. To do that, I have to finish out 2025—and all these WIPs!