2013 New Year's Resolutions

1.   Revise my first draft of a novel currently titled Broken Time.

2.  Complete a final edit on my novel, currently titled Pillars of Sand, and continue to query for it.

3.  Read 60 books in 2013.

4.  Read at least 12 classic books that I've never read before.
Probably from this list:
  1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Began 08-Feb-2013
  2. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Abandoned
  7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville  Finished 
  8. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  9. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  11. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  12. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  13. Paradise Regained by John Milton Finished 08-Feb-2013
  14. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  15. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  16. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  17. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

5.  Read at least one writing craft book a month this year.

  1. January: Bullies, Bastards & Bitches: How to Write the Bad Guys of Fiction by Jessica Page Morrell 
  2. February: Finding Your Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction by Thaisa Frank and Dorothy Wall 
  3. March: Getting the Words Right by Theodore A. Rees Cheney
  4. April: How to be a Writer, Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play by Barbara Baig
  5. May-June: On Writing by Stephen King

6.  Work on a second draft of my 2012 NaNoWriMo novel.

7.  Stop procrastinating. (Which in order to complete this list, I'll have to master.)


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