a Sooner or later, most of us come to the crosshairs of Time: We've fallen short of our deadlines and dreams of fame, success, wealth, acclaim, true love, and six-pack abs. Now, in our fifties or later, the pressure's on to Beat the Clock: write more books, attend more cons, hustle online for more hours each day, grovel still more shameles8sly for that promotion at work/that award... What else are you to do with younger rivals nipping at your heels and older pros passing on the shit they've had dumped on their heads while your timelines grows shorter and shorter? All these glum thoughts plagued me five months after moving to Tucson, where I'd planned to soar, reborn from the ashes I'd left behind me in Seattle. Instead, I found myself in the crosshairs, hobbled by a knee injury, unable to get around the town as well as I'd hoped, trapped in a job that was wrong in most ways, and drifting further by the day from the drudgery of transcribing my drafted Work
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My goal for 2012 is to forget about selling books entirely and take on projects that are challenging, fun, and push my writing places I haven't been before. I've no idea what I'll end up doing but I'm very much looking forward to it. There's a little bit about it at http://www.agnieszkasshoes.blogspot.com/2011/12/play.html
(Dan)
My main one is to get back to starting work at a fixed time (good and early!) every day. This has slipped a bit since my OH retired...
My second resolution is finish my proof-reading course and set up a web-based business as a proof-reader and copy editor.
Best of luck to both of you with your resolutions. Apologies for not answering before = I went 'home' to Wales for the New Year and forgot to check when I came back, and just realsed I'd got some comments|!
Good idea Dan - I'll try to avoid the temptation to open anything except urgent emails until I've worked on my WIP. I'm pretty sure I wont' complete No 1 by my tarket datge, but at least I am progressing with it!