My brain was not too fuzzy at midnight this year (though it became increasinly more so throughout the night, until we stumbled through my front door at 8AM), but the resolution I decided on was wondrously vague. I wanted (want to) "be a better person." This is fine. This is good. But it's not exactly a life plan.
I've since broken it down in my head, a bit: all the different things that "better" entails. It's still not much of a NY resolution-- the best ones are specific and attainable-- but it's an excellent direction.
Last night I came up with a more specific goal. I want to have a book published by the time I'm thirty. Three and a half years. Not a lot of time, really. And since I haven't been using this blog much lately, I think I might chronicle my efforts here. We'll see. But, as demonstrated by the Summer Reading List (which was great, til I was reading too fast to provide summaries), I do better work when I'm holding myself accountable, somewhere. Might as well be here.
So, first mini-goals. I will read the "advice for writers" in "Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors, and Literary Agents 2009" and will begin to write query letters to agents in February. I will totally revise "Liar" and finish my chapters in "Nice the Novel" by the end of April. I will start a box of all my big, fat rejection letters.
I like having a plan.
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