New Year's Resolutions
Write on the Water
Jan. 3, 2012
Happy New Year. Most of us here in Key West have recovered. Have you?
What are your New Year resolutions? None? Or none you expect to keep. It seems mine always sound the same and I am not sure I keep them. Not to my satisfaction. Writers are erratic animals. Insecure, too. Maybe that's why I make the same resolutions each year, or similar enough to make me think so.
My resolutions for 2012:
1) Write more. Most friends think I write a lot. I don't. I need to spend more time at the keyboard.
2) Read more. I am a believer that a writer needs to read, a lot. Stephen King thinks so to, so I'm in good company. Again, people see my office library and are amazed that I've read so many books. I should be reading when I am sleeping. Less sleeping more reading.
3) Achieve my resolutions.
I am often surprised that people think I write and read more than others do. I think I could do more, be better, so I make the resolutions knowing I will not make the mark, again. But it gives me something to aim for and that's what I need. A goal. I expect to write more this year. I am rewriting my 3rd and last lost mystery – Who's to Bless & Who's to Blame – that I begin in Mexico in the late '90s. I also need to put an ending to it. I gave myself a deadline of May. In June, I will begin the sequel of Stairway to the Bottom, tentative titled Nobody Wins. It will be a little different Mick Murphy Mystery. A lot darker and I'm toying with telling it from Norm's POV.
What resolutions do you expect to keep or not? I'd like to know I'm not alone.
Have a healthy and prosperous 2012.
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