This is K.M. Weiland and you are listening to the 326 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Seems like I always have a zillion in one, comparatively small projects or needed updates that are always lurking on the back burner while I devote

my attention to bigger flashier projects.

But my first goal for 2016 is to buckle down and spend January and February focusing exclusively on the 30 plus items on my to-do list.

I was hoping to get a few bonus weeks of work out of the end of December, but alas, was not to be.

Between Stormings launch at the beginning of December, a wonderful whirlwind Christmas week with visiting family,

internet problems, and unforeseen errands, I feel like I haven't

had a normal day in a long time.

And I dearly love normal days that end with me feeling productive because I checked all the expected

to do's off my list.

With any luck tomorrow should be the first of those normal days.

Fingers crossed anyway. First on my list is doing my annual

year-end checking and updating of all the static information on my websites and social sites. So wish me luck. The

latest post on my blog is five ways to make better writing resolutions in 2016.

This year, take your writing resolutions beyond wishful

maybes and make them happen. Here are five ways you can make better

writing resolutions this year.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Most Common Writing Mistakes, Part 47,

ineffective Setting Descriptions. You can't write a good setting without a good

description. That's the way it rolls.

In written literature, what is setting, if not?

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