Another Year of Unfinished Expectations

As it leans towards mid-december, we are approaching New Year's Resolution writing time. I don't remember (off the top of my head) what my resolutions were last year. I have a feeling, I didn't achieve them. And from the memory of 2008, I probably didn't reach them the prior year, neither.

Ah, looks like I found them. 2009 Resolutions.

1. To edit OO: Screenplay and register it with WGA.
2. To write OO: Novel... or at least a first draft
3. To collect more essays for The Three Minds of Black America
4. To write my second screenplay
5. To work for AT&T... yay new job!
6. To buy my FIRST CAR
7. To rent an apartment in Downtown Detroit
8. To purchase a new cell phone

(Mid year I also decided to 9. Read 50 books and 10. Lose 40 pounds)

1. Well, I did register the screenplay, even though I am still editing it. 2. I only have 20 pages of the novel's first draft... and I had 50 pages in 2007. Yeah, don't ask. 3. The deadline for The Three Minds was June 15th. One person submitted (who didn't know me personally) - a few others inquired. 4. I started a second screenplay, but I decided to make the first one better. 5. AT&T, I'm not sure what to say. I remember being so excited about it last January. 6. Although I am barely able to drive it (for at least three different reasons), I did purchase my first car. 8.I bought a new cell phone, two actually. The second, after the first was stolen at a play.

(So far I have read 50 books. And, I lost about 20 of the 40 pounds I wanted to lose.)

This year I wrote 1 essay, 2 short stories, 1 piece of erotica. Less than 10 poems. Not much.

I attempted seven out of the eight goals. Pitifully enough, none of the seven which I attempted are either finished or in operation as of December, 2009.

I found my 2007 New Year's Resolutions here: Despite everything that has changed since then, my goals are pretty much the same.

Here goes nothing. Lhea's 2010 Resolutions.

1. Finish editing OO: Screenplay.
2. Finish 1st draft of OO: Novel.
3. Finish TF: Poems.
4. Write 2nd Screenplay
5. Write Short Stories
6. Write Essays
7. Write Erotica
8. Move out of father's house
9. Weigh 125 pounds
10. Go Vegan
11. Develop income not reliant upon: Food Stamps, Prostitution, etcetera
12. Prevent myself from becoming another negative black stereotype