Why I Don't Make New Year's Resolutions

I haven't made a New Year's resolution in many years, because they started feeling like lines drawn in the sand: bold, dramatic, exciting.

Until the tide comes in and washes them away.




I see plenty of writers resolving this and that on line. But I don't need New Year's resolutions to motivate me in my career because New Year's Eve and New Year's Day really aren't any different from other days in my writing year. Well, except for the champagne, which might either slow me down a bit, or c...