Literary Resolutions

I rarely make New Year resolutions on January 1.  It usually takes me a while to make resolutions.  First, because I think that the holidays should stretch past the first day of the year and that I shouldn’t have to start working on anything I’ve resolved to do for a while yet.  Second, because I make a number of resolutions each year (most of which I ignore) and it takes more than a hasty minute before the countdown reaches one to really decide on what I will commit to.

Each year, I have writing and reading resolutions in the mix.  This year is no different.

There are books that I want to finish and pieces of writing that have been lingering that I promise I will complete.  There are folders on my home computer that I swear I will go through because they are ridiculously large, sometimes with three or four copies of the same document in evolution.  There are blogs that I should update more regularly. There are also grammar rules that I promise I will watch more closely and will have eternally etched in my mind by the end of the calendar year.

Like all of my other resolutions, I am not going to get all of these done.  Even if I dedicated all my spare time in the year to these, I wouldn’t get them all finished.  There are some that sound great, or might even be great, which I will no doubt drop from lack of interest.  I put them on my list anyway.

By the end of the year, some will have disappeared, and some will be done.  That's how I'll know which ones I really did care about and which ones just sounded really good.