This time last year I said:
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All too soon for me yet, the last few months have left me ... I don't know how to describe it, maybe this time next year I'll work it out.
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I haven't worked it out yet
, but I'm hopeful that I might be moving past it. I've spent the last 6 months writing software, with the wee hours of the morning stolen away from my fiction writing to get a particular project implemented. That's now done, so I'm hoping I will get some more time to myself.
I have been been thinking about ("planning" would be too strong a word) a new major project for more than 2 years, so my goal for 2015 is to get the first novel of that project, if not finished, at least well on the way.
I'd like to get another few short stories done, another four or six and I'll have enough for a collection. Last year I thought I might try and publish what I had done so far as individual books, but now thinking it may be worth holding off to create something more substantial. It would be really good if that happened in the coming year, but I'm not holding my breath.
As you can tell, and as I've said before, I'm not really into "goals" for this stuff - so I have the wish-list above, but that's as far as it goes. I write because I enjoy it, and if I start placing deadlines on things it will start to seem too much like work.
One of the things I like about writing is that it is a creation you can actually finish, and the result doesn't have its obsolescence built-in (or not so definitely and obviously as software). That gives a type of satisfaction that I don't get from my software development work.