Hello My Imaginary Friends,
It’s a good thing that my wife reminded me I made these cause I had completely forgotten. The past sixish months have been a roller coaster of emotion and a study in lack of sleep.
Here are my resolutions for this year.
Let’s get right into this and see how I did.
Writing
1. Write a Monthly Serial Story (Succeeding)
I’m pretty proud of this year’s story and impressed with how easy it is to write. Check out Diamond Stars and the Galactic Heist now.
2. Start and write half of SUPER MYSTERY BOOK PROJECT Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers. (Success)
Oh my. This went so much better than I could have hoped. We managed 100k words and Jen went a step further and wrote most of a short story collection to go with it. We submitted the book to Renaissance Press in May and are planning on writing the sequel in the Fall.
3. Write Another Hal Story (Failing)
I haven’t written another Sun Speaker universe story, unfortunately. However, I have written over 20,000 words in short stories for the short story collection that follows Assassins. That counts for something right?
JenEric Designs and Coffee
4. Ensure 5+ days of updates (Succeeding)
So far so good. What I’m most struggling with is the movie reviews. Not writing, but watching. We’re watching too much television and not enough movies.
Editing and Marketing
5. Start Editing Dinosaur Road Trip (Fail)
I’m going to call this now. I don’t have the motivation to do this. As much as I love the story, there are other stories to work on.
6. Keep Working on FADDS (Succeeding)
I’ve reworked tables into accessible columns and added a whole new power section to the rules. My playtesters are fantastic and things are going well.
Personal
7. Read 15 Books (Failing)
I was reading at night before bed, but since writing Assassins at that time worked so well, I’ve been doing it for Elizabeth 4 and short stories. That means I’ve barely finished 2 books this year. I doubt I’m making this.
8. Play more games with the kids (Succeeding)
We haven’t done enough board games, but that’s mostly because the 2 year old can’t follow. We bought a Nintendo Switch and both kids play Mario Kart and I’ve been playing Yoshi Craft World with Dragon. I’ve also been playing Link’s Awakening, which both kids love to watch.
9. Be More Patient (Unsure)
I still yell a little too much and I’m a little too stressed. I need to chill. I’m doing a little better but I still need to work on it.
10. Keep pressing my doctor to find out what those attacks were in November (Fail)
In November I had some serious health issues. I had massive cramping in my lower left abdomen, fever, weakness, nausea, and fatigue. It happened twice in November and both times faded away.
So I haven’t pressed on this. I probably won’t. It hasn’t happened again and when I started to feel something similar I made sure to de-stress and relax a little and it helped. I don’t know what happened, but at this point I’ll see if it happens again.
Results
Well it’s not great but it’s not bad either. I’ll call that roughly 50%. I’m not going to add anything to this since I already have my hands full trying to improve this score.
- 1 Success
- 4 Succeeding
- 2 Fail
- 2 Failing
- 1 Unsure
What do you think? How are your resolutions going?
Éric