2011 in Review

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.