If you're brave enough to fly

Thinking today about goals for the new year (and also, how the hell did it get to be 2013??).

I’m not usually one for resolutions. Most people end up making them too vague (like: Eat better, get fit, get thin) or just chucking them all after a week.

I would like to make some goals for writing and reading this year, however. And so, ten goals:

1. Write up my full story bible for The Crossing trilogy (books currently entitled Shaede, Daemon and Fae).

2.  Fully outline Shaede.

3.  Outline Daemon and Fae – at least a skeleton outline, but preferably full outlines worked out.

4.  Draft Shaede, deliver to beta readers, and redraft to get a stage where it is ready for submission.

5.  Outline Wintersun.

6.  Either write a first draft of Wintersun or a second draft of Never (after getting feedback from beta readers.)

7.  Write and submit at least one piece of short fiction.

8. Track my writing progress every day.  Aim for 1k per day, but any progress is a positive.

9.  Keep tracking reading in Goodreads.  No goal for numbers of books read.  Add short reviews for everything finished.

10.  Return to the much-neglected Her Words and Worlds project by reading through the work of Angela Slatter.  Choose future victims subjects.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

And just like that, a new year.

We rang in the new year at a friend’s party and came home earlyish, thanks to the fact that I’m still limited in spoons.  Spent some time sitting around drinking quietly,  then I went to bed.  While I lay there trying to sleep (I’d had caffeine to try to stay awake earlier), kids in the street outside set off a bunch of fireworks.  Fun, though illegal.  I eventually caved and took Stilnox at 3.30am so I could get some sleep.

I slept, but because I took it so late that I feel weird this morning.  Half drunk, stumbling around.  I really don’t like taking these drugs to sleep, but I didn’t think anything else was going to work last night.  It always makes it difficult for me to get my sleep schedule right again.  But New Year’s Eve always does that.

Anyway.  Happy 2009 to all   I have a feeling that this is going to be a good year.

I’m not a big one for resolutions, but there are a few things I want to be better about this year:

1.  Socialising.

I want to make more of an effort in this regard, mostly in actually allocating some spoons to meeting people and having fun.  I tend to forget about that a lot.  I need to spend time with people who are fun, to lighten up more.

2.  Health and fitness.

As much as I can in my limits, I want to try to improve my fitness, more than anything else.  I need to start walking more, in particualar, and maybe look into buying a bike and going biking.

3. Work.

I want to slow down a little, focus more on getting quality work done.  I know I can work fast, but I want to work fast and well.  I also want to spend more time getting queries out and maybe also write a few short stories and get them published.

This year is about seriously pursuing the career.  I should have my million words of crap out of me by now.  Time to do it properly.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.