This Year I'm Resolved to...

I've decided that rather than say I'm making New Year Resolutions (because we all know what happens to THOSE), I'm going to simply try to be resolved to do certain things.

On the very top of my list is the toughest one. In 2014, I'm resolved to get over this writerly slump of mine and stop wallowing in self-pity.  I'm an extremely self-indulgent person, and I've allowed myself to feel really badly about my writing career's latest bump for a long, long time.  Yeah, it sucks that Penguin dropped me after Precinct 13, but publishers dump people all the time.  I may not recover from this, but what else is there to do, but try?  I let some opportunities slip by me in 2013 and I can't do that any more.

To that end, due in large part to the support of empty_mirrors , I have a seekrit project that I'll reveal at some point.  Fingers crossed, but I think I may have finally found a way to combine the things I love about fan writing with original writing THAT WILL STICK.

The other thing I'm going to try to do this year is be a better pen pal.  Three years ago (or longer?), I put out a call on Facebook to see if anyone wanted to receive old-timey correspondence from me.... letters, delivered by post. (I know, right?  Who's even heard of this??) I got a couple of bites and I had a lot of fun writing actual pen and paper letters to people.  I'm going to try doing that again.  I just wrote a letter to my former/kind-of-slacked-off-on-my-end pen pal in Seattle, and I'm going to try to write something to her every couple of weeks--even if I don't get a response.  And, Frank, if you read this, this means you too! But no pressure to write back--I really just enjoy the feeling of pen in hand and it's nice to have an excuse to use fancy papers and buy pretty cards.

Those are the big ones.  If I happen to exercise more and lose weight or become a better partner and do the dishes more often and keep up with my blogs along the way, that'd be swell... but you know, baby-steps.