Every new year I fall into the same routine that so many others do. I make resolutions that, by February, have fizzled into nothing. There's the typical, from managing my budget and losing fifteen pounds, to the extreme, like learning a new language or stalking Orlando Bloom.
This year, I will make only one resolution: I'm going to write. Everyday. Shooting for about 1,000 words a day, most days of the week, for a total of 350,000 by the end of 2010.
The idea for this started in November, when I came across a slice of insanity: NaNoWriMo. "Thirty days and nights of literary abandon!" Excited, enchanted, I jumped in feet first and for 30 days was a mess of woman, constantly babbling about word counts and word padding and plot twists. What came out was 50,001 words of absolute garbage, a chaotic disaster of shallow characters and barely recognizable plot.I loved every minute of it.
Inspired by my success, I looked for something bigger, something more long term. Finding the WriYe project was exactly what I needed, a way to make myself accountable for writing everyday of my life.
For I now know the reason that all those other resolutions always failed: They weren't important. Sure, I wouldn't mind dropping a few dress sizes or cutting back on shoe purchases. But in the end, the desire to have a smaller waist or more bucks in the bank just wasn't as important as sharing ice cream and pie with my fiance or being free with gifts to friends on their birthdays.
Writing, however, has always been important, and I think so important that it never occurred to me to make it a "must," to make myself accountable for it daily.
In the year 2010, I shall have only 1 resolution, a year of writing. What comes out during those 365 will probably be just as awful and unreadable as what was produced during 30 days.
But I know I'm going to love every minute of it.
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