Right, so I've had a number of requests for my New Year's Resolutions.

Lemme start by saying that after Halloween, New Year's is my favorite holiday-thing. It's purely symbolic (I mean, the winter solstice--what I would consider to be the new year--was a week-and-a-half ago) but it's a WONDERFUL symbol.

It's not just the old "wipe the slate clean" aspect, which is quite nice in and of itself, it's also that it's a nice time for hope and for aiming high. I'm all about aiming high. Sure, you won't always make it. Hell, you may not OFTEN make it. But shit, that rush from trying...

It's people looking at themselves and seeing what parts they want to be better. It's hope, damn it.

So here are mine, in brief.

1) Last year, I promised myself thirty rejection letters or one published work. I ended up with over a half-dozen non-fiction shorts.
     This year? One published piece of fiction. One comic actually in the works, if not actually submitted to at least one publisher.
2) The usual "better shape" thing. Not for anybody but myself. Okay, sure, for Sara, too, but mostly so I won't wince when I look in a mirror.
3) Love every goddamned minute.
4) Hoard every stray bit of hope I find and give away as much as I can. See, I want YOUR year to kick ass, too.

Told you I aim high.

Oh, and thanks for all the music advice. Got a lot you recommended and a few I wanted.


b
It's been a long time since I've actually felt a New Year like this.

In theory, my first published article (non-fiction, famous female pirates) will be in the issue of Shonen Jump that comes out this week...February cover date. Plus, based on its ass-rockingnessosity, I have another one finished, potentially for the March issue.

I've kept it hush from lots of people, but at midnight tonight, I'm no longer employed by the library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the project I was hired for comes to an end. I have an exam on Tuesday to qualify for another position that SHOULD open up...but won't know the results for weeks, and won't know about the job for longer.

Still editing manga for DrMaster, but I have promised that "time off from work" really means "time on for writing."

I might have decided that I'm not up for grad school, prefering to shoot for library job and writing as my "real jobs." With luck and asskick, the latter will eventually be my only job.


2006 will be my bitch.

benjamin sTone

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