Resolution 1: I will post at least one entry a week.
Um. Well. *checks calendar* Not so much. The first part of the year was okay, but I completely dropped the ball once August rolled around-- not a single entry during that month, or during November, either.
Overall, I wrote a grand total of 27 entries the entire year, down from 59 last year.
Resolution 2: I will write something fiction-y every single day, even if it's just a sentence or a paragraph.
Hahahaha. Yeah, not so much. Again, once August rolled around, I failed at this like a failing failer. I haven't written more than a paragraph here and there in the last four months, and I posted absolutely no fic whatsoever this year. I was super excited about that Young Avengers fic, too, but inspiration just deserted me. :\
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(I'll be honest, though-- as much as I'm irritated with past-me* for totally screwing the whole resolutions thing, I can't really blame myself very much. I haven't talked about it much here-- or really at all-- because it's a work-related thing and I prefer to keep my internet and real lives fairly separate, and also because I don't like complaining too much, but: I am currently in the middle a seven-month long training program for my job, and it has, no lie, been the single most stressful experience of my life.
College? Pfft. Grad school? Walk in the park.
This course? It is like finals week every single week, except ten times more ineptly managed. I'd take it out back and shoot it in the head like a rabid dog if I could.
*sigh* Anyways.)
*Yes, I've been reading too much Homestuck.
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On to 2012:
Since I won't be done with this program for a while, I'm renewing these resolutions-- starting March 23rd, the day after I graduate. Up until then... I'm going to cut myself a break. I'll post when I can, and write when I can, but I'm not going to add on stress I don't need.
Finally, and most importantly:
Happy New Years, everyone!
Crossposted from DW, where there are
Page Summary
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
--Little Gidding, T.S. Elliot
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
--Little Gidding, T.S. Elliot
Comments
Happy New Year, lovely.
Happy New Year!