Those should be enough for this year We'll have to revisit them at the end of 2013 and see how things went, yes? Have any non-resolutions of your own?
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Monday, December 31, 2012
New Year's Non-Resolutions 2013
I stopped making New Year's Resolutions a few years ago. I started making non-resolutions. Very simply stated: things I was not going to do in the New Year. Easier for me to keep in many ways as not doing something was/is easier for me. So this year I will NOT:
Stay in the house writing all week long, socialized only by FB and Twitter
Talk myself out of a trip I really want to take. No rationalizations allowed.
Wait for friends to call me. It's a very bad habit.
Be unauthentic with anyone; not you, my other friends, or especially myself, even if I'm terrified.
Put another writing project away. I may jump from one to another and back again but I will not put them away. The back burner is NOT away; it's just the back burner.
Write less than 1000 words per day.
Wait more than 72 hours after completing a project to start quering agents. I'd set the limit lower but why query on a weekend? I could be wrong.
Go one day, even holidays without writing. Mission started: Yes, I was writing on Christmas day.
Take every piece of writing advice as carved in stone gospel. What I've decided to do is full of risk; time to take some. It doesn't mean I won't listen: that would be extremely silly.
Those should be enough for this year We'll have to revisit them at the end of 2013 and see how things went, yes? Have any non-resolutions of your own?
Those should be enough for this year We'll have to revisit them at the end of 2013 and see how things went, yes? Have any non-resolutions of your own?
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