The presents are opened, the recycling bins are choked with paper, and the leftovers are being served up meal after meal, so much so everyone is starting to complain and you say: “Enough! You want something else, go and damn cook it yourself.”
The cricket is on the television*; there is nothing else on television because it’s summer non-ratings period and we’re subjected to the crap they wouldn’t dare inflict on us at other parts of the year.
So what better time than to devote some mental effort to planning ahead for 2008, at least in a blogging sense. What are your goals? Your dreams?
To blog more (or less?) To snatch a wider reading audience? To improve in certain rankings? Something else entirely?
Me? You ask? What’s my blogging resolution?
It keeps changing, to be honest.
It might be easier to answer what’s my writing resolution?
There are several. Here goes:
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To complete a short story I’ve been writing gradually for nearly four years and submit it to a writing competition which closes February.
- To have a substantial piece published, or at least accepted for publication, by my thirtieth birthday.
- To develop certain projects beyond their draft stage in which they have languished too long.
What’s my general resolution? To live in the moment more; to not judge myself by my shortcomings as much as I do but instead focus on what good I have done, and what more I could do.
What’s your blogging resolution? Writing resolution? Personal resolution?
Or resolutions be damned?
*Not that I mind. I am one of a few women who enjoy the cricket. Yes, even test cricket.
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Now, for something exciting. As of the weekend I can officially announce the launch of “Aussie Bloggers.” To borrow the words of one of the founding members, the aim is for “empowering, encouraging, supporting and promoting Aussie Bloggers and the Australian blogosphere in general”.
To facilitate this goal, we have established a group blog (which will be launching on the 21st January, 2008) and a forum which is now open for registration.
Meg @ Blogpond
The other creators are Snoskred and Andrew. I too am a (small) part of the community as a moderator, so why don’t you come on over and join us?
[Non-Aussies are most certainly welcome too!]
