Each year, I make resolutions. Last year, I think I resolved to write every weekend, and to send 2 submissions each month to poetry journals. Mostly, I fail to keep these resolutions (although I have been writing much more consistently lately). My lack of resolve, however, doesn’t stop me from continuing to make the resolutions. So here we go:
- Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob.
- Continue to write nearly every weekend.
- Submit manuscript to at least 5 contests. – COMPLETE! (Feb 2011)
- Send two submissions per month.
- Complete NaPoMo. – COMPLETE! (April 2011)
- Spend more time geocaching.
- Participate in Donna’s Poetry Tow Truck exercises.
Participate in the Small Stones project.- Actually get back to Nic Sebastian on that Voice Alpha guest-blog invite.
And maybe write a guest-blog.– COMPLETE! (Feb 2011) - School, school, school. – COMPLETE!* (April/May 2011)
- Think about finding a new job, or learn to balance work/life more appropriately in this one.
- Act less on impulse and more out of kindness.
- Weed out the negativity.
- Make time to blog twice a week (it stimulates the muses, you know).
- Take more pictures.
- Stick with kickboxing.
- Lose some weight.
Whew. I don’t think I’ve ever made so many resolutions for one year. Some of them are bound to stick, eh?
I have a vague idea that I might lay out a road map to achieving these goals. We’ll see about that.
*Marked as complete though it will continue throughout 2011
I would say the fact that you completed your manuscript, won two awards, and were chosen to work with Dean Young makes it a pretty fruitful writing year for you! Best of luck with some resolutions – I share some of the same ones, so maybe we can keep each other honest!
goldfish not elephants right? If you have a bunch, you will at some point get some of them down.
Love this comment. At first I was all like, “WTF? Goldfish not elephants? Is he talking about my memory?”
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