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New Year's Resolutions, 2012 Edition.
Jan. 2nd, 2012 06:00 pmI could tinker with this list forever, but here are my goals and aspirations for the year:
1) Blogging/Writing. Continue blogging 5 days a week, but make an effort to get more interesting. Write 550 words of original fiction every day -- but stop counting failure days as something to punish myself with. An off day is acceptable. An off week, by contrast, is a sign that something's not working -- 3850 words a week, every week,
1A) Goals for January -- 3 short stories and the finishing touches on the next three chapters of The Hellion Prince.
1B) The Hellion Prince completed and ready to start shopping to agents no later than July 1st.
2) Publishing/Gaming. Start typing and self-publishing gaming supplements. The first project in that vein, The Periodic Tome of Elementals, should also be done July 1st. After that, it might not be a bad idea ot revise and package the two LARP trilogies I have written up -- one dark historical fantasy, one steampunk.
3) Track what books I read. Both in order to review them, to complete the 50 Books POC challenge, and to appreciate my latest Christmas gift -- a 6 month subscription to Bookswim -- I want to keep track of everything I read this year. Even if it's just a weekly list and one sentence of my thoughts posted here; every time I read a new book I want it recorded.
4) Fitness. As a first step toward getting in shape, I'm giving up soda again, cold turkey. I'm going to try to reduce the amount of sugar in my coffee. And once the weather allows it, I want to spend at least an hour a day walking. More on this as I figure it out.
5) Political aspirations. All right, so I'm not going to be signing every petition that comes my way. I can still pick at least one cause or current event each month that matters to me, blog about it, lobby for it, call my congresscritters, and see if there's any sort of personal difference other than rebroadcasting I can make.
That's the plan. I have some financial goals as well, but I don't really feel the need to blog about them, and I want them to be flexible, rather than the sort of thing I use to guilt-trip myself with when I'm feeling depressed.
1) Blogging/Writing. Continue blogging 5 days a week, but make an effort to get more interesting. Write 550 words of original fiction every day -- but stop counting failure days as something to punish myself with. An off day is acceptable. An off week, by contrast, is a sign that something's not working -- 3850 words a week, every week,
1A) Goals for January -- 3 short stories and the finishing touches on the next three chapters of The Hellion Prince.
1B) The Hellion Prince completed and ready to start shopping to agents no later than July 1st.
2) Publishing/Gaming. Start typing and self-publishing gaming supplements. The first project in that vein, The Periodic Tome of Elementals, should also be done July 1st. After that, it might not be a bad idea ot revise and package the two LARP trilogies I have written up -- one dark historical fantasy, one steampunk.
3) Track what books I read. Both in order to review them, to complete the 50 Books POC challenge, and to appreciate my latest Christmas gift -- a 6 month subscription to Bookswim -- I want to keep track of everything I read this year. Even if it's just a weekly list and one sentence of my thoughts posted here; every time I read a new book I want it recorded.
4) Fitness. As a first step toward getting in shape, I'm giving up soda again, cold turkey. I'm going to try to reduce the amount of sugar in my coffee. And once the weather allows it, I want to spend at least an hour a day walking. More on this as I figure it out.
5) Political aspirations. All right, so I'm not going to be signing every petition that comes my way. I can still pick at least one cause or current event each month that matters to me, blog about it, lobby for it, call my congresscritters, and see if there's any sort of personal difference other than rebroadcasting I can make.
That's the plan. I have some financial goals as well, but I don't really feel the need to blog about them, and I want them to be flexible, rather than the sort of thing I use to guilt-trip myself with when I'm feeling depressed.
