Hello New Year!

Like many others, I’m hoping it is a better year for everyone/the world. Last year was like that curse, “May you live in interesting times.” No, let’s live in boring times, please.

Now is IWSG time!

And this month’s prompt is…

January 5 question – What’s the one thing about your writing career you regret the most? Were you able to overcome it? (The awesome co-hosts for the January 5 posting of the IWSG are Erika Beebe, Olga Godim, Sandra Cox, Sarah Foster, and Chemist Ken!)

Regrets? Well, it would be nice to have more readers, but as I’m lazy about promoting, etc…I’ll just let it be. So, to the second question, I guess the answer is “No, I’ve not overcome lazy.”

It is WORK to be a writer. No sitting in your ivory tower listening to the grateful hoards beating a path to your door. And after 30+ years of the former ‘day job’ and burning the candle at both ends doing that, I’m content to drift along and loaf. No burning flame urging me on. I write when I want to and mostly for my own satisfaction. So there, lazy writer.

On the same note, I gave up doing New Year’s Resolutions a long time ago (in a galaxy…), because if I was going to change, I would change, not because of some date on the calendar. Usually, I made changes at the beginning of school years, i.e. things I wanted to do differently, or try in my classrooms with a new school year. I’ve written elsewhere about how September is more of a ‘new year’ in my psyche than January 1.

One piece of information I do remember from classes on changing/shifting how you teach is to do/try about a 30 percent change, or 1 thing new out of 3 things you do. Don’t plan to change everything at one time. And a reminder that you have to stick with something a while before it becomes an embedded habit, so there is that also.

So, Happy New Year and let’s get on with life straightening itself out, please.