The theme for 2007 is...
..."Finish What You Started."
So this year I will be working on all the half-finished novels I have left gathering dust in the studio when a more exciting idea pops up, and I'll be rescuing all the finished but unrevised novels waiting for their turns to be shorn and rewritten. I will actually put away all the clutter that somehow manages to get piled up on every flat surface. I will sew the curtains I've been planning for months. I will knit the other sleeve of the sweater I started in 2005 and finish it. I will spin all the wool in my fiber stash before I buy more.
And Saturday will become my "story day"--I will take a break from novels and work on a short story during my mandatory one-hour-minimum-per-day writing time. The goal is one new story a month. In 2006 I entered the Writers of the Future contest three times (it's a quarterly contest) and hit the quarter-finals twice. This year I intend to win, by gum. And I will send out 40 submissions this year and make at least 4 sales. (I'm allowing myself some leeway here and counting the sale I technically made in November, but I won't get the check until this spring.)
I'll get in shape this year too and wear cuter clothes. No more slopping around on weekends in jeans and a T-shirt with those tiny holes old T-shirts mysteriously get. Unless I'm working on the house or the yard.
You'll excuse me now, I hope. I have to finish stripping the wallpaper from the bathroom walls, a task I started in May.
So this year I will be working on all the half-finished novels I have left gathering dust in the studio when a more exciting idea pops up, and I'll be rescuing all the finished but unrevised novels waiting for their turns to be shorn and rewritten. I will actually put away all the clutter that somehow manages to get piled up on every flat surface. I will sew the curtains I've been planning for months. I will knit the other sleeve of the sweater I started in 2005 and finish it. I will spin all the wool in my fiber stash before I buy more.
And Saturday will become my "story day"--I will take a break from novels and work on a short story during my mandatory one-hour-minimum-per-day writing time. The goal is one new story a month. In 2006 I entered the Writers of the Future contest three times (it's a quarterly contest) and hit the quarter-finals twice. This year I intend to win, by gum. And I will send out 40 submissions this year and make at least 4 sales. (I'm allowing myself some leeway here and counting the sale I technically made in November, but I won't get the check until this spring.)
I'll get in shape this year too and wear cuter clothes. No more slopping around on weekends in jeans and a T-shirt with those tiny holes old T-shirts mysteriously get. Unless I'm working on the house or the yard.
You'll excuse me now, I hope. I have to finish stripping the wallpaper from the bathroom walls, a task I started in May.