Most of us have them. And most of us abandon them the second week of January. Or maybe it's just me who does that. All of my resolutions this year have to do with building myself a career out of this erotic writing business. There's a long way to go, granted, but hopefully as long as I'm able to stick to the resolutions I'm going to make over the next couple of days, I'll be four steps closer to making a living from writing by the end of the year. I've come up with a rough list to which I'll be adding more as new ideas come to me, but for now this is what I've got.
- I will not skirt the truth when people ask what I write. In the past I've said anything from contemporary fiction to romance. Or contemporary romance with erotic elements. My stories are exactly that so it's not as if I'm lying...not really. It's more that I haven't told the whole truth. I write m/m romance. I write gay romance. And that's what I'm going to tell folks from now on
- Spend more hours writing and less on internet forums or other things that don't involve writing. I'm a big time waster. I fanny about online for hours doing nothing useful. That's going to stop. I've said it many times before but this is a new year and I've got to mean it this time. Which also means no more five hour sessions on Mass Effect, or checking out Mass Effect forms to see if there's any way to play male Shep as gay (there isn't).
- Finish all the stories begun in 2009/10. There are a few of those and it may take a while to get around to them all. I have so many I doubt I'll begin anything new this year at all.
- Promote myself. This one brings me out into a cold sweat. I'm useless at putting myself out there but if it means more people buy my books, then that's what I'll do.
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