My critique group met last week, and we paused our regularly-scheduled reviews of one another’s work to take stock of how we were doing with our writing goals and plans for 2021. I’ve set out some ambitious goals for this year, after not writing much at all during 2020. I set out to indie publish BAD CHOICES MAKE GOOD STORIES, my essay collection about writing. I wanted to draft a middle grade to submit to my agent, and begin working on an adult mystery series that will be an