I hate making resolutions for the new year. I rarely keep them, and so I generally feel like a failure by mid-February, and by March I’ve completely forgotten what I’d resolved to do.
And yet here I am, making resolutions. In a public forum, no less. So I’m leaving it up to you, dear readers, to keep me to these. ;)
TDF Pamela’s 2011 Reading & Writing Resolutions
- Read and review more books
The last half of 2010 was a bit crazy for me. I graduated with my Master’s, spent a month and a half in Hawaii, then spent a few more months being nomadic while the Fanfiancé and I decided where to live, bought a house, and moved halfway across the country. I still read, but I didn’t have a lot of time or energy to write reviews. Now that we’re settled here in lovely Oregon, I want to try to review nearly every book I read.
- Read more romance
I’ve sort of fallen off of the romance bandwagon. It’s time to get back on and expand my horizons. In 2011, I want to read more paranormal romance and start venturing into other romance subgenres. I just finished The Duke and the Pirate Queen by Victoria Janssen, an erotic semi-fantasy romance, and I effing loved it.
- Read more science fiction and fantasy
Most of what I’ve been reading over the past year has been urban fantasy. I love that genre, but like I said in the previous resolution, it’s time to re-expand my horizons. I used to read a lot of SF/F, and there’s a ton of it on my bookshelves, waiting to be read. This year I’m going to read it.
- Write more fiction
My dearest desire is to be a published fiction writer. This year, I want to write short stories and longer works and start shopping them out.
- Finish writing said fiction
A corollary to the previous resolution, I want to actually finish the fiction that I write. I’m still working on a novel that I started two or three years ago. I don’t want to be the slowest writer on earth anymore. I want to stop nitpicking everything and getting discouraged, and I want to actually finish what I start.
I could make more, but I think the more I make, the more I’ll fail to keep, so I’m going to leave it at this.
What are your readerly or writerly resolutions for 2011? Any books or genres you want to get into?
