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new year's resolutions
Dec. 31st, 2012 07:37 pmI am making New Year's Resolutions! They're guidelines. I like them.
1. Write every day
This one's simple. Do some sort of creative endeavor at least once a day. I pretty much do this right now, but what the hey, easy resolution I can say I've done.
2. Do interesting things
Maybe Cracked isn't The Place to go to for inspirational advice, but I read this article which pointed out what is probably pretty obvious: to other people, you are nothing more or less than the sum of your actions. As the article says: "It's "How can I get pretty girls to like me?" instead of "How can I become the type of person that pretty girls like?" See, because that second one could very well require giving up many of your favorite hobbies and paying more attention to your appearance, and God knows what else. You might even have to change your personality." And that's useful for me, because I hadn't thought of it this way before. So, this year, I resolve to be the sort of person who is interesting to other people, and to remember that the only thing that people see about me is what I show them, so I've got to actually ... do things. Gasp. Again, this is something I've already started doing. See, I said I was lax on the resolution thing.
3. Finish at least one novel-length story
I've got three novels in progress right now, which is (a) the most I've ever had going at once, and (b) also entirely feasible. I've gotten practice with writing longer things and with finishing them, and with editing, and I know that I'm going to finish all three of them at some point. I've got the Bridge Across the Rubicon, I've got Impossible-to-Name-Story, and I've got the End of Days. They're ... actually, they're all around 30K right now, and all probably need another 50 - 70K to finish them off. It'll be interesting.
... I think that's it! There are other things I'd like to accomplish, but they're all constituent on the second. I'd like to make at least one or two new friends, offline and online. I'd like to be more active in online and offline communities. And I'd like to not spend my entire college career single, because for me, that is important. College was supposed to be where I figured that whole thing out, and I spent two years being shell-shocked from high school instead. Bugger.
Time to go! I'm trying to finish Martha Jones' Great American Road Trip by the end of the year.
1. Write every day
This one's simple. Do some sort of creative endeavor at least once a day. I pretty much do this right now, but what the hey, easy resolution I can say I've done.
2. Do interesting things
Maybe Cracked isn't The Place to go to for inspirational advice, but I read this article which pointed out what is probably pretty obvious: to other people, you are nothing more or less than the sum of your actions. As the article says: "It's "How can I get pretty girls to like me?" instead of "How can I become the type of person that pretty girls like?" See, because that second one could very well require giving up many of your favorite hobbies and paying more attention to your appearance, and God knows what else. You might even have to change your personality." And that's useful for me, because I hadn't thought of it this way before. So, this year, I resolve to be the sort of person who is interesting to other people, and to remember that the only thing that people see about me is what I show them, so I've got to actually ... do things. Gasp. Again, this is something I've already started doing. See, I said I was lax on the resolution thing.
3. Finish at least one novel-length story
I've got three novels in progress right now, which is (a) the most I've ever had going at once, and (b) also entirely feasible. I've gotten practice with writing longer things and with finishing them, and with editing, and I know that I'm going to finish all three of them at some point. I've got the Bridge Across the Rubicon, I've got Impossible-to-Name-Story, and I've got the End of Days. They're ... actually, they're all around 30K right now, and all probably need another 50 - 70K to finish them off. It'll be interesting.
... I think that's it! There are other things I'd like to accomplish, but they're all constituent on the second. I'd like to make at least one or two new friends, offline and online. I'd like to be more active in online and offline communities. And I'd like to not spend my entire college career single, because for me, that is important. College was supposed to be where I figured that whole thing out, and I spent two years being shell-shocked from high school instead. Bugger.
Time to go! I'm trying to finish Martha Jones' Great American Road Trip by the end of the year.
