Happy New Year!

[osprey_archer]

Happy 2022! May it prove a happy year for us all.

I’ve been contemplating New Year’s Resolutions, but I haven’t come up with anything that strikes my fancy. In the past I’ve made writing-related resolutions, but mentioning a book in my NYR post seems to doom the poor thing, and anyway it seems a bit silly to make a Resolution to continue doing something I’ve already been doing for years.

My most successful New Year’s Resolution was my resolution in 2018 to watch a movie by a female director each month, which ended in watching over a hundred movies by female directors that year and also diving into nonfiction books about the history of women directors in film and attending my local film festival for the first time… It’s wonderful when a project takes off at that level of intensity.

Does anyone have any New Year’s Resolutions this year? Or memories of New Year’s Resolutions past that worked out extraordinarily well?

Comments

[osprey_archer]

I'm not sure I have 25 goals! Will have to think about this more...

[luzula]

The thing about 25 goals is that I don't expect myself to do all of them, and I can include small things as well as big things. But fair enough, it might not be for everyone!

[osprey_archer]

I've started making a list of goals just to see how many I come up with. Even if it's not 25 it's still nice to have a list, right?

[luzula]

Yes! Also you could do a 4x4 bingo if you wanted, instead. : )

[osprey_archer]

I have noticed that I could group some of my goals together into a research trip to Michigan that I want to do anyway for a book I'm writing... which may not end up happening (the trip, I mean; the book is definitely happening) but at least I can enjoy planning it.