New Year's Resolutions - What's Yours?

 

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New Year's Resolutions. They are meant to encourage us to start off the next year in a positive frame of mind, to make the new year better than the outgoing one. Yet the older some of us get, the worst each year seems to be. It might be the aches and pains from the damp and cold of winter or the melancholy left over after the hustle and bustle of the holidays. For some, the darkness is caused by the simple handwritten message scrawled in the yearly card, "We lost xxx this past spring." A reminder that with the passage of another year, another friend won't be there to share the new year with. Or it could just be exhaustion from isolation and dealing with Covid-19.

With all that it is easy to lose the passion and joy that marked earlier times in my writing career. The happiness when a story is completed or the excitement of a new contract paled in the face of the reality of the sales and royalty numbers in each month's email.

I came across what is for me as a writer, the best New Year's resolution and one I hope to adopt for the upcoming year. So with acknowledgement to Linda S. Clare who voiced the original resolution, here's mine:

Resolved: In 2021, to fall in love with writing again.

So to all my writer friends, that is my wish for you. And for the readers my wish is for you to find a new favorite author and to enjoy your old ones."

The person behind the resolution, Linda S. Clare, is described in her bio as a daydreamer, artist and storyteller. Read more about this resolution and why authors need to at least consider it at http://lindasclare.com/2016/12/the-best-writers-resolution/.  And here's an additional note if you start wavering. http://lindasclare.com/2017/01/keeping-writing-resolutions/

~till next time, Happy New Year. In the upcoming days,

 

May your troubles be less,

And your blessings be more.

And nothing but happiness come through your door.

 

Helen

Resolution - Fall in love with writing...Again #MFRWauthor

 

Welcome to the final week of the 2019 challenge. And it has been a challenge. We've revealed something about ourselves, both personal and professional. Some posts were easy (and had a number of us thinking on the same lines) others... let's just say they required quite a bit of introspection before putting fingers to keyboard.

Recently I saw award-winning Jacqueline Seewald's blog post on New Year's Resolution. The title was perfect, "Let's Start the New Year Right."

But how to do that. The older I get the worst each year becomes. Whether due to money, lack of opportunities, family responsibilities, or just life, the plan to go to a party on New Year's Eve and dance until dawn never happens. The optimism with which we are supposed to greet the new year vanishes before the stroke of midnight.

To close out the challenge, instead of rehashing the year (a summary of the challenge itself will appear in the new year), or coming up with a depressing list that I know will not last past January, I'm going to recycle a thought that for me as a writer is the best New Year's resolution and one I hope to adopt for the upcoming year.

So with acknowledgement to Linda S. Clare who voiced the original and whose post is worth revisiting: 

Resolved, to fall in love with writing again.

And to all my writer friends, that is my wish for you. To all the lovers of books in whatever their format, my wish is for you to find a new favorite author and to enjoy your old ones."

~till next time, Happy New Year. In the upcoming days,


May your troubles be less,
And your blessings be more.
And nothing but happiness 
Come through your door.

And be sure to visit the resolutions of the other authors in the challenge and congratulate those who made it though all 52 weeks.