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Every year for my New Year’s resolution I give myself a target, like publishing a new book. Those who know I wrote a book, Billy in Space, may be aware that the sequel is still not a thing. It’s been my target for the last (ugh) three years now. This comes from me taking months at a time off from working on it. Arguably I was working on a big animation project last year, HauntEd (go watch it!) but there were still hours of time in my day that could have been better spent.
Clearly, I’m going about self improvement wrong, so this year I’m doing something different. Instead of one big goal that I can put off, and put off, and put off, until it never happens or we’re all dead, this year I’m giving myself monthly challenges to help build new habits. Last month I was a vegetarian. I’ll be talking about that in probably the next blog post. Next month I’m going to try to spend less money on junk I don’t fricken need, by setting myself an allowance like I’m a five year old. This month I’m writing at least a thousand words a day. I want to be a writer, and I want to be a good one. One only gets better at a thing by doing it a lot. Right now I only write when I’m working on a project, and that’s not enough.
I’m gonna try writing stuff I don’t normally write, and a lot of that will end up here on the blog once or twice a week. You can all look forward to my stupid, poorly thought out opinions on politics, game design, nerd culture, scifi, horror, and sometimes, when I’m feeling really smart, how those things are all related. In the past, I’ve stayed away from writing prompts. This month I’m going to be trying them as well to stretch my narrative muscles.
This series of resolutions is all about trying things outside my comfort zone. I don’t know what all the challenges I’m going to try will be yet, but they’re all going to be about building better habits for self improvement. That’s my plan. Feel free to tell me it’s stupid, or tell me your New Year’s resolution, or leave me your bank account info an amazon password in the comments (yes this site does comments!)
(398/1000)
See you next time,
Harry L-B
Clearly, I’m going about self improvement wrong, so this year I’m doing something different. Instead of one big goal that I can put off, and put off, and put off, until it never happens or we’re all dead, this year I’m giving myself monthly challenges to help build new habits. Last month I was a vegetarian. I’ll be talking about that in probably the next blog post. Next month I’m going to try to spend less money on junk I don’t fricken need, by setting myself an allowance like I’m a five year old. This month I’m writing at least a thousand words a day. I want to be a writer, and I want to be a good one. One only gets better at a thing by doing it a lot. Right now I only write when I’m working on a project, and that’s not enough.
I’m gonna try writing stuff I don’t normally write, and a lot of that will end up here on the blog once or twice a week. You can all look forward to my stupid, poorly thought out opinions on politics, game design, nerd culture, scifi, horror, and sometimes, when I’m feeling really smart, how those things are all related. In the past, I’ve stayed away from writing prompts. This month I’m going to be trying them as well to stretch my narrative muscles.
This series of resolutions is all about trying things outside my comfort zone. I don’t know what all the challenges I’m going to try will be yet, but they’re all going to be about building better habits for self improvement. That’s my plan. Feel free to tell me it’s stupid, or tell me your New Year’s resolution, or leave me your bank account info an amazon password in the comments (yes this site does comments!)
(398/1000)
See you next time,
Harry L-B
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