2011 was a good year, but it was also a fairly uneventful
year for me. I got a promotion,
went on a couple trips (Seattle and Washington, DC), took up a couple new
hobbies (bowling and photography), and otherwise did the same things I’ve
always done (read books, listened to music, and watched movies). Future biographers would find little
worth mentioning about 2011 and would have to push forward to find some
life-altering events.
My biggest regret of 2011 is that I didn’t write more,
especially after I finally overcame the mental block preventing me from
returning to my unfinished novel in December 2010. I spent most of the year preparing to resume work on my
novel, but I never quite got to resuming work on it.
I did accomplish a decent amount during that time but no actual
writing. However little I wrote, I
thought of little else all year.
If 2011 was The Year of Thinking About Writing, then 2012
has to be The Year of Actual Writing.
My life is in the perfect place to get a lot of writing done. I do not have any dependents, no
girlfriend to distract me (though that’s a distraction I would gladly accept),
and I have everything to gain. I
need to put my dream of becoming a writer to the test, and the time is now.
While I hope that most of the writing I will accomplish in
2012 will be in my novel, I want to resume updating this blog regularly as
well. I have set a goal to post
updates three times a week. They
may not be very substantial updates, but they will be regular and help
contribute to meeting the goals I have for my writing in 2012.
I don’t have much else to say in this post, but here are the
subjects for a few of my upcoming posts: favorite songs/albums, books, and movies of 2011, a long
essay on why I need to write, and whatever else I may think of.
That’s all.
