Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!

Happy New Year! Set a goal for yourself and let’s track it through 2026 to see how it’s going.

Remember to visit my fellow writers to see what they have created. You can find their works here!

I’m going to keep this a bit vague, as I have a few things coming up early in 2026 to look forward to! In 2025, I was writing 100, 150 or 200-word stories at the rate of 1 a day, come rain or shine, even when I wasn’t feeling well. I did it for the wrong reasons – with a view to earning money through Medium. I didn’t enjoy it, though.

I published a book of short Christmas stories, which I enjoyed, and I participated in a reading challenge. I set myself twelve themes and read books from them, in an effort to try authors I’d never read before. I really enjoyed this.

So on to my goals for 2026. I have no pressure or plans to publish a specific book, although I do have multiple possible projects. With that in mind, my biggest goal will be simply to enjoy writing again. What comes of it will no longer be the driving factor. Just to write something. Anything. But I need to enjoy it.

As for reading (and yes, I do include audiobooks in this), I’ve gone for a more challenging goal. To read a book starting with each letter of the alphabet. And this won’t include A, An, The, In, etc. It’ll be a test to find books, but I am excited to really move beyond my comfort reads.