{"id":406,"date":"2008-01-04T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T19:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/04\/2008-resolution-same-as-last-year\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T19:55:49","slug":"2008-resolution-same-as-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/2008-resolution-same-as-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Resolution: same as last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/2008-suck-less.png\" alt=\"2008-suck-less.png\" align=\"left\" \/>My New Year&#8217;s resolution last year was to <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/01\/09\/i-must-be-insaneim-writing-zombie-fiction\/\">get something submitted for publishing before December 31st<\/a>. I failed at that goal. This year, my resolution is the same: I shall submit something for publishing before December 31st, 2008. However, this year, I have a couple of good options.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/category\/nanowrimo\/\">to NaNoWriMo<\/a> I have a novel that is 80% complete (17% complete, if you figure in all the rewriting that needs to be done). I can work on that and attempt to get it published. However, since I&#8217;ve had the time to allow the novel to cool a bit since completing my word goal November 30th, my feelings on the novel itself have cooled, as well. I don&#8217;t cozy up to the general concept I crafted in <i>Seventeen Lies<\/i> as much as I did prior to starting the novel. To be perfectly honest, I don&#8217;t think I do well at long form fiction. Maybe I need to work my way up to novels. Or at least, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m attempting to convince myself at this point.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also looking at a couple of other potential projects on my plate. I think I work better with shorter length fiction, and I have a few examples nicely packed within my <i>Human Vacation<\/i> collection that I can spruce up and submit to a magazine this year. I could also work on my children&#8217;s book, <i>Team Bottlerocket<\/i>. I came up with some more excellent ideas for that project this past year, and I love the concept so much, I find myself thinking about it now and again.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;m also planning to participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/ficlets.com\">Ficlets<\/a> a lot more in the coming months, as well.<\/p>\n<p>So, in 2008, the sky is the limit. I&#8217;m giving myself a hard deadline of December 19th (the last true Friday of December, right before the holidays) to get something submitted <i>somewhere<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And then, we&#8217;ll see what my New Year&#8217;s resolution is in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My New Year&#8217;s resolution last year was to get something submitted for publishing before December 31st. I failed at that goal. This year, my resolution is the same: I shall submit something for publishing before December 31st, 2008. However, this year, I have a couple of good options. First of all, thanks to NaNoWriMo I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[537],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-2008-resolutions","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}