Those of you who are still reading along at home despite my
frequent periods of blog neglect will remember that I have a somewhat mottled
track record when it comes to New Year’s Resolutions. I mean, who doesn’t. As
previously established, only eight percent of those who make New Year’s Resolutions keep them. But I’m
not a quitter, and I’m not going to let year after year of failure stop me from
failing again.
But wait! I don’t always fail! In 2012, I resolved to quit smoking for the umpteenth time, and I actually did it! For
real this time, not one of those “quit smoking for two months and then start
again because everyone else is doing it” quit smoking attempts. Even if I sometimes
sit in traffic and daydream about smoking the hell out of a cigarette, it still
counts.
Last year, I resolved to start eating better, which…I mean…I
stopped eating chocolate spread. That’s got to count for something.
This year, my friend Melody texted me two days before New
Year’s and was like “let’s get drunk on New Year’s Eve so we can resolve to
drink less next year” and OMG you guys, let's never drink again.
I also resolved to amass a collection of awesome cat
T-shirts, because I’m 33 years old and it’s time I did something with my life.
I already have one, so that’s a headstart:
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| It's a men's T-shirt, so it actually covers my entire torso when I lift my arms. Who knew? |
But those aren’t the resolutions you came here to read, and
they’re not the resolutions I came here to make. Those resolutions are just the
icing on top of the determination cake.
In 2014, I resolved to write a book. I complained that I struggle with writing stories
because I can’t think of any plots. Lots of people gave me some really
unhelpful advice about how I should “just start writing and the rest will come,
honest” because I guess they must have skipped over the part of the post where
I explained that I have tried that strategy already several dozen times. One genius suggested that I just
write non-fiction, which is of course what I decided to do.
If you read my 2014 Year in Review post, you’ll know that I only finished about 17,000 words of
that book in 2014. So, technically I guess that still counts as a fail. And I
didn’t even bother making any resolutions this year, but I kept plugging away
and now I have 47,500 words. This is the year, guys, I’m really gonna do it. I’m gonna finish the book I
resolved to write in 2014!
Or at least the first draft of it, anyway.
