My Music Journal 2025: December 15, 2025

 

Monday, December 15, 2025

 

Time: 9:05 AM

Song: Firelight   
Artist: Young the Giant, Cassandra Coleman
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Release Radar playlist on Spotify.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/7fI4zEoAdj3nm1KLRMLAPz?si=620002bb71904424

 

I’ve been thinking about next year and the writing I want to do. Here are my general thoughts: 

 

• I have faithfully contributed to this blog every day. As an exercise, I am proud of my diligence, if not the results. I don’t know if it has made me any better as a writer, but I do think it has forced me to take time to write daily. I will continue to blog next year, but it won’t be the same format, I am just not sure where I want to take it.  
• For the better part of the last decade, I have faithfully submitted to a handful of contests every year. These are all prompt-based with time constraints. Again, these have been great ways to force myself to write, and a few of the stories have turned out to be good. I am thinking though it’s time to transition away from that and focus my writing more whether that be on longer works or short stories. 
• The next part of that thought is submitting stories to journals and contests. I submitted a piece to a couple places a month ago or so, but I haven’t faithfully done this. I need to refine the pieces that I have in submission and search out places for publishing. 
• I also want to consider a short story collection. It’s something that has rattled around my head for a year or more. I just need to hash out the stories I want to feature and why they should be placed in a collection together. 
• This all leads back to time management. How much time a day do I want to devote to writing tasks? I think that’s something I need to take into serious consideration.