New Year's Resolutions

I wanted to make public my New Year's resolutions again this year. Last year, I made a number of them, but I only fulfilled two. I read 37 books (goal was 35), and I finished the screenplay for the western that I had been working on. I think there were maybe ten other goals that I had set for myself, but I accomplished only the two.

This year, I would like to once again set goals. I know that we are already more than two weeks into 2013, but I am still going to do it now. Better late than never, right?

Okay, let's start with literary goals.

1.) Read 38 books. I've already read 3 and I'm half done with a 4th, so I'm on my way here.
 2.) Review more books. Okay, this one isn't as quantifiable, but I joined a review group on Goodreads, so this should be a gimme.
3.) Write two (2!) novels. I wrote 2/3rds of a novel in the last two months of 2012. This is pretty lofty, but I honestly think that this is completely realistic. I started writing a new project a couple weeks ago and I am at 21,000 words right now, so I really think two novels of 65,000 words each is completely doable.
4.) Write 4 short stories. About half done with my first already. Again, really doable.

Fitness goals.

1.) Run 400 miles. I ran 310ish in 2012.
2.) Run sub 6 minutes in the mile. I ran a 6:09 last July.

That's all. I think 6 goals are going to be hard to hit all of them. On their own, any one of these would be pretty easy, and I think it will be possible to do all 6 (or else I wouldn't have set them), but it's probably not going to be as easy as I am currently thinking. We'll see.

New Year's Resolutions

Inspired by Joe Konrath's blog, I have decided to put together a list of my own personal goals that I wish to accomplish in 2012. I am awful at setting goals for myself, and I hope that by writing these down for my millions of readers to see, I will be held accountable for each goal I set forth.

1. Publish Viral Empire. This is a 3 issue graphic novel that I am working on with the very talented Rainy Arealius. We have a working script in place as well as some idea of what we want the artwork to look like. There isn't much work left on my end, other than the formatting and printing, so this should be a pretty easy goal to accomplish.
2. Finish writing one novel. I have three started. Well, they used to be one novel, but now they are a trilogy, and I am not very far into any of them. Finishing one will be a major task, but I really need to do this just to prove to myself that I can start and finish a novel.
3. Read 35 books. I have read 28 books this year. 35 will be tough, but it is very possible.
4. Go to a convention. I don't care whether it's a mystery writers convention or a comic convention. I need to start networking and get my work more noticed. This will be made much easier if I can get funding through Kickstarter. I have applied and I am currently working on my final proposal. This would be a huge help to getting Viral Empire published.
5. Finally, I want to finish the short western I began a few years ago. It's not a novel, so I guess that makes it a short story or a novella. I see this as a western-thriller, complete with a serial killer and all, just set up in the wild, wild west.

I will keep you posted as far as my progress goes. This should be a very productive year, I have all the groundwork set to establish these goals, it's just a matter of focus.