A One Word New Year's Resolution for 2015

Laura Lippman does a one word resolution every year, and invites us to share ours. 

My one word resolution for 2015 is "Do." 

And I think I need to have this quote scrolling across my laptop screen.

A New Year's Resolution

I stopped making New Year's resolutions a long, long time ago.

And then, just a couple days ago, I posted two resolutions here at Meanderings and Muses.  But they're fun things, so are they still resolutions?  They're not at all those evil hard resolutions that mean sacrificing something you love - like ice cream, milkshakes, potato chips, pizza or chocolate.  Heaven forbid!  I know better than to make that kind of empty promise to myself.

The resolutions I make these days are fun and fulfilling, but things that I seem to get busy and "lose."  Lose the time, I guess, to do them.  But this next year, I'm going to try to plan my time better to do these fun, creative, fulfilling things and spread my wings a bit.

Especially with my writing.

And I'm going to put this quote up on my laptop as my screensaver in hopes that it will help me remain fully focused and committed to the novel I've finally started working on -




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"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."

- Augusten Burroughs, author best known for "Running With Scissors, a Memoir"

Wish me luck!