Happy 2010. There are some changes being made to this blog, along with my goals for the year. First of all, I am going to start posting book reviews shortly. Some will be sponsered through an advance copy of a book, others based on what I’m reading for the heck of it. I promise to be honest in the review, aka even if I received a free book but hated it I will tell you I hated it. This blog will be dedicated to books and writing, so a new name is forthcoming (although I like the name Death by Ramen Noodles, I might just save it for a short story not the blog). An outline of my goals for 2010 is:
1. I’ve signed up on WriYe for 200,000 words for the year. This amounts to just under 548 words a day or about 17000 words a month. (Note as of today, January 27 I’ve only got about 2000 words for the month so I’m way behind).
2. Blog entries at least 1 time per week (again, this being the first one in January puts me 3 behind)
3. Read at least 25 books this year and 5 of them have to be nonfiction and have nothing to do with radiology. (Ah easy to read the fiction books and I shouldn’t have any problem with the 20 book part, its the 5 nonfiction/not radiology that’s the problem).
4. Complete two first drafts this year (NaNoWriMo and FebNoWriMo should cover this)
5. Edit Nano 09 to take advantage of CreateSpace offer (this is in jeopardy since I’ve decided to walk away from the novel for now, but I’m hoping in a month or two I’ll want to revisit this one)
6. Finally, write and submit 5 short stories this year, to get some writing credentials.
I’ve tried to make these goals achievable, but time will only tell. Feel free to bug me and nag me to keep on track, since it seems that pressure is the only way I get it done.
