Showing posts with label resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resolutions. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Excuses, excuses

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I know I haven’t updated this blog as much as I set out to for my resolution and I only have myself to blame for that, but I’m been busy. It all boils down to one word: school.

This has probably been the worst and best time of my college career. 

I’m graduating in a month (eek!) and this is the first time in about 15 years that I won’t be in school. It also doesn’t help that I’m graduating without my closest friends because I’m graduating a year early. And it definitely doesn’t help that I’ve lost complete motivation for anything remotely related to class. Worst of all, I really don’t know what I’m doing with my life or where I’m headed. To make it worse, it’s all anyone can ask me about.

But it is the best time I’ve had in college. One, I’m so close to being free (free I tell you!). Two, this past year, I’ve figured out some rather important things about myself. What I love. What I need to do. What I can’t survive without. For the first time in my college career, I’ve actually had some free time. I’ve explored my true passion and fallen even deeper in love with it (if that’s possible). I’ve been able to balance school, friends, reading, and writing. (At least I think I did a good job—we shall see once grades are released at the end of April). Nothing is better than being done with homework before it’s dark out because of the small amount of classes I’m taking. 

But I’m still busy. Stressful is an understatement some days. If you want to call my last semester terrifying, stressful, anxiety inducing experience of my life, then I will agree with you. I thought starting college was bad. 

Long story short—there have been too many things competing for my attention lately and I just haven’t had the energy or time to blog. I know it’s an excuse, but I swear I’ll do better. I’m going to try to stick to my resolution of updating my blog twice a week (I’m thinking Mondays and Friday). 


I’m not giving up. I made myself a promise and I’m going to work as hard as I can to keep it. 

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Resolutions for 2015

Good news, I’m back from Costa Rica!

Source: http://pulpypics.com/new-year-2015/
2nd piece of good news: 2015 is here (Yay!!!!) and I’ve never been so happy to write my resolutions (not that I’ve ever written them down before—they were always just abstract ideas I would think I could do in the year) But this is different. I am determined to make 2015 my best year ever. I realize everyone says this and I’m probably just fooling myself, but I really do want 2015 to be a better year for me. 

So my goals for 2015 are broken into five categories: School, Physical, Writing, Blog, Misc. 

School
- Try not to stress out too much since it’s my last semester (continuous)
- Do my best and study as little as possible to keep a decent GPA—this makes me sound like a horrible student, I swear I’m not that bad (Continuous) 

Physical
- Run at least once a week (continuous) 
- Run a 5k by the end of August

Writing
- Finish Draft Naught of GUARDIANS by January 31st 
- Finish revisions for THE LOY by the end of February (this is really really ambitious, so at least the first draft revisions) 
- Send out queries to agents by the March 31st (if THE LOY is ready, etc.) If it’s not ready, try to send out queries by April 30th
- Worldbuild for PALM READER by February 14th
- Write first draft for PALM READER by April 30th
- Draft/Brainstorm/Outline a new novel with Korean Mythology at the forefront, possibly a retelling by April 30th 
- Make an active attempt to find a Critique Partner/Beta Reader by the end of March 

Blog
-  Make my blog “fancier” by updating all the pages I have with “Coming soon” the January 20th
- Work on the menu bar for my blog by January 31st
- Get over my fear of cameras and take a photo to put up by January 31st
- Update my blog no matter how many readers I do or don’t have at least twice a week (continuous)
- Comment and meet other writers/bloggers (continuous) 

Misc
- Read as much as I can, but at least 75 books in the year of 2015 (100 books would be better) (continuous) 

I’m definitely printing this list out and taping it to the wall above my desk. I’ll also most likely add to it as time goes by just because I know forgot things. I always do. 



What do you think about the concept of resolutions? Is it better to lie to yourself and have concrete goals, or is it better to just take on the new year as it comes?