this is my journal ... i write it as i go ... it has typos ... it's not perfect ... but then ... neither am i


... Look, Ma! No rejections! ...
January 1, 1999
9:36 a.m.
 
 
     Of course, I'm the kind of a guy who makes resolutions and predictions in regard to the coming year. I think they're fun. I think they're opportunities to point myself in the right direction.

     Of course, one can take them a tad too serious at times, but I'll do my best to avoid that as I go. okay? So, without further ado, here they come:

     
I resolve to:
  • Tell stories that I love, and tell them to the very best of my ability.
  • Trust myself to write well.
  • Take great joy in watching my friends move their careers along.
  • Make my writing more mature in 1999.
  • Spend my writing time in proportion to my goals.
  • Submit only stories that I feel are publishable, and only to markets that I think will want to see them.

I predict that in 1999:

  • My writing will become more professional.
  • I'll write more new words than I did in 1998.
  • I will sell more stories than I did in 1998.
  • At least one of the folks in my little community of new writers will make huge career strides.
  • I will write at least one novel I am really proud of.
  • Both political parties will continue to look like fools as they deal with this Clinton guy (okay, so I needed an easy one).



        


     Lisa (the copy-editor, not the writer) gave me Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (Renni Browne and Dave King, ISBN 0-06-272046-5) for Christmas this year. After finishing it, I can strongly recommend reading it. Really a nice reference. I intend to read it again in the very near future, and probably keep it handy for filling in those 5 and 10 minute niches of time that seem to slip into the ether.


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