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Happy New Year from Queensland

May 2021 be as boring as all hell. We’ve had our interesting times.

May good things come naturally to you all.

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New Year’s Resolutions

  1. Keep writing
  2. Try my utmost to get RTFM out onto Dead Tree Press [And to that end, it is no longer available on my Smashwords profile]
  3. Every Saturday is Self-Shill Saturday. I must sell my books to get anywhere
  4. Take better care of myself and my health
  5. Finish what I start

Five’s a good number, no?

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2013: My roundup (FWIW)

Okay, so 2013.

  • I made a resolution that I fucking KEPT for all but one day of the year, and that one’s excusable. (Holy shit!)
  • I wrote 180 000+ words for a trilogy
  • I also wrote 160 000+ words for another book in the same amount of time
  • Which means, if I suddenly decide to quit writing my instant stories [Not bloody likely. Relax, folks!] I can write well over 300K in the space of a year
  • I’ve learned I have to get my ears checked because I am annoyingly deaf.
  • I’ve learned to be a better ally from cyberstalking following several wonderful peeps on Tumblr
  • I’ve learned that it’s better to take the supplements that help me get around rather than hurt every time I try to move.
  • I’ve learned I also have a really horrible memory for doing that and shall have to set myself a reminder.
  • I’ve learned that The Spine from Steam Powered Giraffe is just too damn sexy [srsly, he’s even sexy in comic form. Staaahahaaaahhhhp…]
  • I’ve learned that working for a living is not as hard or terrifying as I’d previously thought
  • I’ve learned that shopping for clothes online can be even more of a pain in the arse than shopping in person.
  • I’ve learned that trying new things can be simultaneously disturbing and cool.
  • I’ve learned that I’m more of a technomancer than I thought I was, but that Best Beloved is still a few degrees higher than I
  • I’ve learned that, though I love Macs, I’m bad for them. I almost killed  my existing, very expensive Mac after 6 months of abuse. Best Beloved rescued it with the Magic Touch though.
  • I’ve learned that Steam Powered Giraffe is possibly the best band since The Beatles
  • I can accomplish goals if I’m determined enough.
  • I have a phobia of drowning that has only become worse since the last time I tried to swim
  • Best Beloved seems to think this is easy to defeat(“Just get over it” Gee thanks, Love, I’m so suddenly cured 9_9). BB has NO IDEA about phobias.
  • I’m sure as shit going to do things a lot like this all over again. At least the writing part.

My new years’ resolves:

  1. Keep doing the instant stories for next year (Yay!)
  2. Fucking finish my next novel (Yay!)
  3. Indulge in self-maintenance (includes gaining good habits)
  4. Maintain a stable weight (goal range: high 80’s, low 90’s in kilos)
  5. Learn to at least tolerate fucking editing (boo!)
  6. Publish the rest of my fan fiction on AO3

I think that should be plenty. Don’t you?

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Happy new year!

Here on the east coast of Australia, it’s been 2012 for five hours and forty-five minutes. So far, it’s all going fine.

I slept through new years’ for the first time since I was a little one and I’m wondering if it’s because I’m old.

Though I was woken up by the sound of the neighbourhood’s illegal fireworks going off, and Chaos’ screaming when it was all over. Apparently, she wanted more fireworks. Poor kid.

My new years’ resolutions are as follows:

1) Always keep working on my writing and try to finish what I started [traditional]
2) Monitor my weight and do my utmost to get back down to the vicinity of eighty kilos
3) Do some friggin’ housework every day ‘cause nobody else is

Let’s see how long those last.

I currently weigh ninety-five point four. That’s almost up to 100 again. I did weigh 100 kilos in January of 2009 and got down to 84 on a slow diet. Now my bad habits have slowly got me back up again. Yikes.

I obviously need to keep track of myself or I turn into a blob monster.

On my favour I have: The knowledge that I did it once before, a dog to walk [the leash is in scenic Coominya] and the knowledge of how I did it.

Now I just have to get into good habits and stop eating half a block of chocolate for breakfast.

As for my writing… I’m already doing something every day. That’s a plus. Now, if only it could be something of a professional standard.

What’s some of your new years’ resolutions?

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