New Year's Resolutions

2007 has come and gone, as years are wont to do, and I find myself looking ahead to 2008 with general apathy. I should be excited and happy and generally wanting to get stuff done, but having seen my list of things to do, and the general state of the world in general, I could be more enthusiastic.

Anyways, here is my list of Resolutions. I'm usually decent at sticking to them.

1) Update the website more often, including the blog. At least once a week, preferably more.

2) Get out more. This is a general, cache-all resolution. I spend too much time at home and it has to stop. It ties in nicely with...

3) Get a job. Its proven difficult these last few months. Nothing going in Lancaster, little going in the Midlands. Living with parents is starting to grate on me and I need to get out of here, but without some kind of guaranteed income I'm not going anywhere any time soon.

4) Get more exercise. Another one I've been meaning to do for a while. We have a handy selection of gym equipment in the cellar here - much more than I expected actually - so am gonna use that as much as I can, as well as trips out to the actual gym to work on the muscles we just don't have the equip for here. Hopefully this will make me feel better about myself.

5) Finish Book #1 and find an agent. I've specifically put "find an agent" because I'm actually quite scared of the whole process. Finishing the book will be time-consuming but fairly easy. SELLING it is the bit I'm scared of. But I want to see my novel on the shelf in Waterstones more than anything! I keep going up and looking at the New Fantasy Books shelf and thinking... "One day! Soon! My book will be there too!" So that's what I want!