2015: A Year for Magic and Bountiful Possibilities

It’s 9:30 PM EST on New Year’s Eve 2014 , and being a writer, I’m at the computer, stringing words together as a way of making sense of the year that’s ending in a few hours and looking ahead to the one that’s to come.

2014 was my “Year of Yes,” and I’ve reviewed it in two posts (one with lots of photos.) I’ve declared 2015 to be “the Year of Bountiful Possibilities. I’d originally thought of Boundless, but decided Boundless was too daunting because then I’d feel obliged to follow up on all of them. Bountiful implies so many one can pick and choose in a semi-sane fashion. Bountiful also implies abundance, and that’s something I want to encourage in my life. Or more to the point, I want to encourage my belief in abundance. The Cat-Herder and I have a lot: a comfortable house, enough land for a lavish garden, a loving family, amazing friends, exceptional cats and the opportunity to do work that matters to us. We’re far from rich, but we were able to spend two weeks in Italy in 2014 and we’re still eating on a regular basis. We’re truly blessed. And yet I’m always focused on what we don’t have, when I need to remember that my life is…well, abundant, bountiful and full of possibilities.

When some of my writer friends decided to do a New Year’s Day blog stopover on the theme of 2015: A Year of Magic, I decided Magic and Bountiful Possibilities work well together. After all, I do write paranormal and fantasy romances, as well as contemporary erotic romances, erotica and SF romance. (See what I mean about going for bountiful, but not boundless possibilities? When faced with many options, I try to choose them all. If I tried to write every genre or subgenre I like to read, I’d be even crazier than I already am.)

My plans for this new year are still nebulous. Normally I set goals for the coming year on Samhain (Halloween), which marks the year’s turning for many Pagans, but at that time I was still thick in 2014, my head full of Italy and a book in progress, and couldn’t really look ahead. I have a long list of books I’d like to write this year, but haven’t completed a work plan to get even some of them done. I haven’t started sketching out my vegetable garden. I haven’t sat down with the Cat-Herder to discuss “couple” plans, goals and dreams, though we’ll do that tonight. I know one of his dreams is to see me relax sometimes, take more time to have fun with him and still manage this whole self-employed writer gig, but we need to figure out strategies for that. I’m a planner, so all this makes me a little uneasy. But I’m trying not to let it. After all, we do know one thing about 2015, and it’s pretty damn magical.

This has nothing to do with anything. I’m just fond of the picture.

Our big vacation will be in New Orleans in June. The Year of Bountiful Possibilities actually started in late December of the Year of Yes, when things came together very quickly to allow us and our traveling buddies S&P to set up a trip to this amazing city; we hadn’t thought a return visit was in the cards for a few more years. Interestingly, one of the books on the 2015 to-write list is set in New Orleans, so the trip will be productive and possibly tax-deductible  as well as amazingly fun. Since New Orleans is a city with a strong magical heritage, as well as a place we all love very much and have been hoping to revisit for several years, and the New Orleans book I have in mind is a paranormal, I think that fits.

As for the rest of the year, I know it will involve mountains and beaches, gardening and times with friends and the Cat-Herder, good food and wine, yoga and hiking, and of course a lot of writing. Maybe in the spirit of magic and boundless possibilities, I should let the details sort themselves out. But in the paranormal universes I create, magic takes both spontaneity and planning, so a plan will happen, knowing it will not survive contact with the boundless possibilities of reality.

I wish you all a 2015 full of magic and positive possibilities. If you want some inspiration, stroll through my friends’ blogs and see what their goals, plans and wishes are for the coming year. Knowing them, you’ll get to enjoy some sexy snippets and hear about some HEAs as well.

http://www.huntersjones.com
https://ghorsfallblog.wordpress.com
http://www.sherri-hayes.blogspot.com
http://www.galestanley.blogspot.com
http://www.jacinthatopaz.com
http://www.christinamandara.wordpress.com
http://www.elodieparkes.blogspot.com
http://www.amberleaeaston.blogspot.com
http://www.authordakotaskye.blogspot.com
http://www.sabrinadevonshireromances.com
http://expatspost.com/creative/love-wears-a-white-stetson/
https://dab10author.wordpress.com