Right now all I am doing is working and trying to find a better paying job... (Michigan) AGH! Hopefully I'll be back at Western this fall. I am just saving up right now. Hopefully sometime in the near future hopefully a few years I'll get a job at Stardock.
Novel writing doesn't have to take hours of your free time. But if you want to start cranking out pages, you need to do some each day or it once again becomes a 'One day....' item on a list somewhere. That's not to say you can't stop and start, but actually putting the words onto the page requires you to be sitting at the keyboard. I generally find that there's only so much stuff that can fit in my mental horizon and then I need to start writing or at least making notes in the outline.
One of the key steps in my writing process has been to learn how to use master documents. I still can't get the thing to open up on the second monitor, much to my disappointment, but after it's loaded and positioned, it makes navigating and editing the chapters that I'm working on much easier (because the linked documents open on the main monitor).
If one makes a resolution not to make resolutions, does he fail if he succeeds?
Doh!
Not how I want to live my life.
I just don't make new years resolutions because I never keep them. But kudos to anyone who does.
The problem with resolutions sometimes is that we set our expectations too high at the beginning of the year. So when we don't live up to those expectations we're naturally quite disappointed.
In my opinion, unless some of the resolutions are not that hard (in which case why not just put them on a regular to-do list) it's better to shortlist just a few of them and work out in detail how you're going to do those, especially if they tie in to one another somehow. If you somehow manage to get those done by the middle of the year, then you can go back and figure out how to do something else on the list.
If I had to make a resolution it would be to work on managing my time more effectively, because it's impossible to make long-term plans if I can't hold to two-thirds of a daily to-do list.
I think the idea behind resolutions are good. some people are lazy and don't set goals for themselves, but they are a sad lot.
Everybody has set a few goals that are two high at some point. I know I've done that, but its an important life lesson that everybody must go through at least once.
I usually don't have a stated time when I place my resolutions (like I reflect and make goals on a regular basis throughout the year), but the new year is a good time to reflect on life to see what can be changed for the better. many people are too busy to really stop and think about that kind of thing, so the new year resolution is great for reminding people in mass. kudos to who do it.