My New Year's resolution is to write 1000 words a day.

Every day. Regardless of how many I might be 'ahead' by. I'll hopefully be well over that amount in general; 365,000 words in a year isn't that many by my standards. But for the past two years I doubt I've had even 200K in the year. My lifestyle changed abruptly and very significantly when I switched career tracks, and my old style of writing just isn't working anymore.

Normally when I write, I sit down and write a whole chapter at once. I HATE being interrupted and trying to pick up a scene in the middle later on. So I write in chunks, and once upon a time, I seemed to have no trouble finding lots of chunks. So even though I didn't write more than two or three times a week, I was still very productive.

Now, though, I just don't have that much time all at once. I'm falling behind, I'm not keeping up even with my fanfiction committments, let alone working on original stuff. I didn't write a single word for NaNo this year, and that upsets me.

So, we'll try it this way. If I can force myself to write 1000 a day no matter what, maybe I'll finally learn to write in small bits instead of large chunks. Either way, if I don't do SOMETHING drastic my writing quality is going to continue to slide.

Normally I don't bother posting about resolutions, but maybe having people to hold me accountable to it will make me actually DO it.

It's time to swim or get out of the pool. If I'm serious about writing, I should be able to do this. If I can't commit to this... then I'm not serious about writing.

(Obviously Foresight was not finished by the end of the year as I'd hoped. But maybe this way I'll actually make some bloody progress on it. ;p)