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The Flu Blues
It started right before Christmas. I noticed people out shopping that should have been home with a vaporizer strapped to their chest. The coughing, hacking and wheezing was enough to make me double dose on vitamins and start praying to the health gods that I remain well for the holidays. We have a little grandson and I wanted to spend it playing with him, not making the tissue maker stocks rise at an alarming rate. I made it to Christmas day.
About midday I started feeling dizzy and feverish. Everything went downhill from there. I was happy enough to spend New Year's day being able to breathe through one nostril. The good news is I had time to do some reading and think about some goals for this year. In December I wrote a newsletter regarding resolutions. How are we doing on those? Oh. Not so good, hm? Forgive yourself and revise. Goals should be reviewed often. If something is blocking one path, try another. Tell yourself "this month I will..." and every week, take a look at how you are doing. It's so easy to ignore the difficult path and choose laziness.
So while I was in bed (a perfect time for introspection when you're not hallucinating), I wrote down some small personal goals I would like to accomplish. I edited the goals into short phrases and printed them on an index card. Then I stuck the card where I set my phone to charge every night. Now I look at the card before I go to sleep. This way I can think about my small goals and find a way to move forward on at least one. I've managed to complete one and it felt great to cross it off on the card!
So my advice this month is play some small ball. Don't try to do everything at once. And when you're at the gym, bent over wheezing because you're out of shape, forgive yourself for being lazy and don't overdo it. You'll get there if you just keep moving forward. Write on!
This month's question: One of my resolution suggestions for the New Year was to read more. Any book/story suggestions?
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Excerpt: Do you have big plans for yourself this year? Will you finally finish that story that's been haunting you for so long? Will you try your hand at a brand new genre? Do you want to read and review a certain number of items by April? Will you take that first step toward self-publishing your latest masterpiece? Set some goals and resolutions for the new year and you could win big prizes!
Excerpt: The first thing I noticed that night was the sound of the broiler shutting down behind me, twenty minutes before closing at midnight. I turned to the crew through the window and three wide brown eyes looked back at me. One pair of hands were frozen on a Whopper, half finished, one filling a coke at the drink station, one holding the salt shaker over the fries. I thought of mimes, frozen, then jerking in movements.
Excerpt: Whenever Shea showed up, I knew he brought trouble—trouble in the form of my son, Max. I opened the door to the garage. A gaggle of twelve-year-old kids, pushing, hollering, and laughing, silenced when they saw my face. Shea spoke up.
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Excerpt: As I dished the food onto an enamel plate, I sighed. Here I was on a Monday, with the wash flapping on the line outside, all the marketing to do, and a demon sitting up to my table. I didn’t have time to bind demons, let alone go to figuring who in town could be the cunning man.
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Excerpt: Hannah’s friends hadn’t understood why a petite, toned twenty-two year old girl fresh out of med-school decided to date a forty-year-old New Gaian man. She’d tried to explain she wanted an exciting life crossing the galaxy with this tall, broad-shouldered exobiologist.
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This month's question: One of my resolution suggestions for the New Year was to read more. Any book/story suggestions?
Last month's question: What goals would you like to achieve in 2013?
blue jellybaby  replies: For 2013, my first goal is to stick to my goals! I, probably like many others, start out with great intentions that fall by the wayside as life intervenes. I know I'd like to finish a novel I'm working on and hope to edit my NaNo novel too. They're things I always think, oh I'll do just a few more reviews first, then I look up and realise it's home time or so late that I'm almost at work. So those are my two writing goals this year! I know that I have other things to work on too...
BIG BAD WOLF is Howling  answers: Goal to achieve- finish the stories I've gotten started but not done.
Quick-Quill  responds: New Years Resolution-This year I AM going to finish revising my new novel and work on rewriting last years NaNo. Be more active reviewing on WDC and maybe even enter more contests.
dwarf2012 tells us: I want to submit to a paying publisher:short stories, novel or even poems!
Dawn Embers  submits: I would say that for 2013 my big goal is just to get further in my life plans. That includes having one of the novels I've worked on ready to submit to an agent. I want to keep writing, reading and doing more with the site but also to develop offline life goals too.
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