As I said last time, my New Year’s Resolution is to write every day. Inspired by Frederik Pohl who wrote four pages a day for decades. I won’t hit that number but I plan to try and kick it into high gear as much as possible. I decided to start it up a couple of weeks early.

To my utter shock I sat down and wrote a little over four pages a few days before Christmas! If I at least TRY for that, I could finish the two stories I wanted done by the end of the year, NEED to have done by the fifteenth of January. Four pages is not a bad goal to strive for. Four pages it is, then!! (For the record, I’m writing this bit on December 21^st)

And now on January 20^th, 2026 I can report that the four pages thing is working, as a prod if nothing else. I managed for about four weeks to do the four pages thing about five days a week, sometimes just making it to the beginning of the fourth page. This has helped with the progress in writing longer stories and I am working on finishing up stories I wanted to finish for years or even decades. Besides writing three flash fiction stories I wrote four full-length stories and sent three of those off to markets.

Yes, this is seriously working and I may be able to send off more stories this year as well.

That’s about it for now.

——-jeff baker, January 20, 2026