2016 GOALS, RESOLUTIONS ETC

So...

It's my BIRTHDAY! And a New Year and thus my mind shifts to things that need to be done, should be done and would be nice if were done.

To be done:

Have 2 novels to finish this year. TMCRA which is about 1/3 of it's way through the birthing canal. And Book 2 in the Age of Kali series, which is only a thought and a rough outline yet. 

Should be done:

I have a women's fiction novel coming out in May, and I need to get cracking on cover, blurb, advance reviews, editing, promo, motion sickness...um maybe not that. It's not as if writing and then producing a book for reader posterity is anything like screeching up and down a roller coaster. Or is it?

Would be nice if done:

Start Book 3 of Age of Kali series. Take a screenwriting course. Take a drama class/ archery lesson/ sailing lesson. Spend 2 months alone in Scotland and write.

Those are my goals/plans/ hopes for 2016. What are some of yours, Dear Reader?

GONE BABY GONE!

Yikes! And It's 2013.

I want to write that I spent the last week of 2012 in a fabulously exotic beachy location, immersed to my chin in warm frothy bubbles and a Strawberry Daiquiri in my hand. In the strong, muscled arms of my...ahem never mind. You get my point. I want to write that. I do. I will write that at some point in my life just not today.

What I spent the last week of 2012 doing was something a bit more intrinsic. Getting over a really nasty case of the Common Cold. 

Plus, I was in a sort of drugged frenzy sending out my son's college applications. Or, not really. I was only supervising the frenzy from my bed. I hope my son was feeling some frenzy. (You can never tell with teenagers.) Well, by the time 31st December sprang up, the applications had gone (all but 1) and my DEFCON 5 level cold is now in the category of the SNIFFLES. 

Question is: Do I/we want to go out and bring in the New Year tonight? Or, since the house is gorgeous and empty of children for the first time in 17 years do we stay in and...bring 2013 in with the appropriate fireworks? 

Hm. Tough decision.

On another note...

My Top 3 New Year's Resolutions:

1. One good deed to do a day.

2. One page to write a day.

3. No more freaking colds this year.

Have you sorted out yours? 

HAPPY NEW YEAR, PEOPLE!