I was originally going to call this another resolution, but I realized that’s not really what it is.  Resolutions are things that you want to get done in the coming year, and the reason a lot of them fail is that people have goals, but don’t really have a pathway planned out towards achieving those goals.  So, for 2009, I’m going to have Writing Days.  These are going to be days where writing is my job.  Clock in, do at least 6 hours work in some kind of writing, then (and this is the important part) clock out again.  These aren’t necessarily days I’ll specifically take off from work, January’s will probably be my employer-given day off on MLK Jr Day.

Now, I can already hear you.  But David, you’re saying, don’t you normally work an eight hour day?  Part of the goal will be to ramp up.  January: 6 hours.  Feb: 6.5 hours.  By May I’ll be taking an 8 hours writing day.  It’s something I’m going to have to get used to, but it’s something I want to get used to.

Follow up to yesterday: submission is safely being whisked off towards Los Angeles.