The Tally for 2025
December 31, 2025

Writing-wise, the year 2025 was spent mostly on completing the second draft of 
my current novel-in-progress. In fact, I wrote just a handful of short stories. 
And with only a handful of short stories, I wasn't able to submit anywhere near 
as much as I had the year before, and as a result, I had only a single 
publication: "The Last Page of the Magazine" published over at Sci Phi Journal. [1]

As for the novel second draft, I was able to finish it just a few days ago. Now 
all I need to do is go through it, give it a polish (which I hope will only 
take a month or so) and then it's time to send it off to a beta-reader(s). 
Barring any drastic changes indicated by the beta-reader(s), I hope to have it 
to an agent by the end of 2026.

So what's on tap for 2026? Well, I've a few short-story ideas piled up that need 
to be gotten out of my head. And I'm roughly half-way through the first draft of 
the next novel, so I need to finish that, as well.

And as always, there's bound to be some life-related stuff to crop up in 2026, 
both planned and not. But no matter what, I intend to continue writing as much 
as I can in 2026. We'll tally up the results at the end of next year.

Best wishes to everyone for 2026, both in life and in writing.

[1] https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2025/12/12/the-last-page-of-the-magazine/

(c) 2025 Andrew Gudgel
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