New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain
via Quotegarden.com (which no longer seems to exist).
I don't believe in New Year's resolutions. I think it presumes one is somehow failing already. Click To Tweet
Which, I suppose, one may be. But I prefer to stay positive. I’m not failing–I just still have things to learn.
In that vein, what do I want to learn this year?
- To write, in some fashion every day. I mean every day, whether I feel like it or I’m tired or I’ve got kids running around. Every day. I have learned that I write best when I keep my story fresh. If I can’t “write” a scene, then I’ll make notes, or brainstorm, or work on the synopsis, or reread it for a refresher.
- I’m writing a rough draft. That means no editing as I go, no going back and deciding this isn’t working here or there or that scene isn’t long enough. Just write it–and sort the rest out later. There’s something to be said for allowing creatively to flow uninhibited.
- I will fear less and learn to accept rejection more. I will send my work out without fear because I may have a lot to learn and I may be rejected, but I’ll never be published while it sits in a folder on my hard drive.
- I will remember that I write for the love of it, the rush, the thrill of creating people and worlds and stories because it makes me happy.
I’d love to hear your goals/resolutions/that which you want to learn in the comments!