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My Writing Goals for 2023

Posted on January 18, 2023January 17, 2023 by Debbie Young

In last week’s post, I shared a summary of my writing year in 2022. This week, I’m declaring my writing goals for 2023, on the basis that publicly declaring intentions makes them more likely to turn into reality.

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Cats are very effective gauges of temperature: being curled up tight means it's a chilly night! Dorothy is very cosy indoors though - the woodburner is blazing just out of shot. OUT TODAY! The set of Dorothy L Sayers paperbacks I bought as a teenager and have reread so many times are now falling apart, so I am gradually replacing them with secondhand hardbacks. I'm just rereading "Clouds of Witness" for the first time in ages, and it's even more wonderful than I remembered. The bright green pond weed looked quite surreal when the rest of the garden was covered in frost - but the top few inches of water in the pond was  frozen solid, as my daughter discovered when she spotted one of our cats strolling across the surface of the pond! You have been warned! The dusting of snow on my garden this morning was just enough to highlight the bulbs pushing their way up through the soil. Spring is definitely on its way! New novels waiting to happen! I stocked up on bargain notebooks last night at TK Maxx as my reward for going grocery shopping on a freezing cold night. The American format spiral-bound notebooks are perfect for writing my first drafts by hand, and the elegant, classic Moleskines for research  and planning notes. If I fill two spiral bound notebooks, that's enough for a novel. Then the typing begins... which also functions as the first of many rounds of edits. Enjoying this entertaining and beautifully presented memoir by Oliver Darkshire about working as an antiquarian bookseller in @sotherans_piccadilly. It counts as research for my ninth in my Sophie Sayers cozy mystery series, which is set around a bookshop. But first I must press on with writing the fourth Gemma Lamb adventure, "Beastly Business at St Bride's"! My assistant editor, Dorothy,  offering moral support as I check the final proof of "Murder in the Highlands", before returning it to Boldwood Books tomorrow to go into production.
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