2010 Projects and Goals
Jan. 1st, 2010 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleReading
I want to get back in the habit of reading books. As I mentioned in my 2009 wrap-up post, I pretty much stopped reading books in October. I have a job now, so I'm much less anxious about how I use my time. I started reading a lot at my old job because I would take a book with me and read at lunch. Now I come home for lunch, so I end up reading my email and LJ instead. I think I'll have to take to reading on weekends and some evenings again. As part of this, I'm going to continue to read at least one nonfiction book and one book by a PoC author every month. I don't even have to rely solely on the library for my book needs: not only do I still have money left on the Barnes & Noble gift card I got when I left my old job, but my parents also gave me a B&N gift card as part of my Hanukkah present.
Dance
I really want to dance more often. I love it when I do it. It's just doing it every day that seems to be a problem for me. I'm having trouble identifying the problem here, so I need to either put some more thought into it or just do it more often. I'm also planning to go back to ballet in February, depending on my budget.
Writing
My specific writing goals for 2010:
I want to get back in the habit of reading books. As I mentioned in my 2009 wrap-up post, I pretty much stopped reading books in October. I have a job now, so I'm much less anxious about how I use my time. I started reading a lot at my old job because I would take a book with me and read at lunch. Now I come home for lunch, so I end up reading my email and LJ instead. I think I'll have to take to reading on weekends and some evenings again. As part of this, I'm going to continue to read at least one nonfiction book and one book by a PoC author every month. I don't even have to rely solely on the library for my book needs: not only do I still have money left on the Barnes & Noble gift card I got when I left my old job, but my parents also gave me a B&N gift card as part of my Hanukkah present.
Dance
I really want to dance more often. I love it when I do it. It's just doing it every day that seems to be a problem for me. I'm having trouble identifying the problem here, so I need to either put some more thought into it or just do it more often. I'm also planning to go back to ballet in February, depending on my budget.
Writing
My specific writing goals for 2010:
- Finish and sell the novel. If I really keep to my goal of 200 words per day on weekdays and 1000 on the weekends, I should be able to finish it in about four and a half months.
- Start/write the next novel. (I'm already setting it up in the first one.)
- If I finish both of those, then start the five-novel series I already have notes and some character names for. (This is really a "when," not an "if;" the "if" portion is only about the time period.)
- Finish the Mike/Kevin story. I have no idea where it's going, which is making this harder.
- Finish the Chris/Steve space AU. I do know what happens next, and I don't think there's much left of the story.
- Finish or give up on the Fuck City boywives AU. I got stuck because I didn't know enough about Ryan, Kyle, and Stu, but if they're really going to keep up with the podcast and get publicity for Burning Empires, then they might solve that problem for me.
- As I mentioned in my December wrap-up post, I started an actor!Gabe/director!Victoria AU. I like the idea of actually writing the rest of it. The other large fan fiction project I keep thinking about tackling is the Leighton/Vicky-T Good Girls Go Bad AU, which I'm also entertaining the idea of writing as an original story. Given how my planned writing works out, I will probably end up writing some other kind of epic fan fic instead.