Friday Update

So it's been a week since the new year, and it's the end of the week, both of which make it a good time for my first of many (hopefully) updates on how I'm doing on my resolutions.

My main update is the daily work on writing one. I can happily report that I've worked on writing every day, though some of the days it was very little. But considering that it was the last week of the session, when I'm busiest, that's pretty good. Other than the two submissions I sent and posted about, most of what I've done for writing has been research for my current writing project. It started as a short story, and I could never get my head around how I was going to do it, so I set it aside for a few months. Thinking about it again though, I think the main reason I couldn't find a way in is that it was a novel in my head, not a short story, so it was basically impossible to say what I wanted to in the shorter form.

Thinking about it as a novel is both exciting and scary, since I've never tried to write anything that long before, and it requires me to know more than I do. So to learn and get inspired, I've been doing research. This has been a lot of fun, and it's been pretty helpful -- I have a lot of notes I've been taking, both of facts that I want to remember and work in, and realizations I've been having about the plot, characters, etc. because my brain is focused on it. So nice! But scary.

As to my other resolutions, my mom helped me out quite a bit this week by coming by my house and taking a significant amount of the things of hers that I've been storing away, which is helpful, and she brought my brother, so I've been hanging out with family too! So as long as other people are down with doing my resolutions for me, I'll be set.

This weekend I'm going to clear a few more things out of my house, clean up a bit, hopefully get all my stuff done for applications that I can given what I already have, and of course write.