Vae -- New Year's Resolutions

[sythyry]

The translator tells me that it is just past First Day this year in your world, and that each First Day is the day to make resolutions, and today is the day to break them.  And what resolution that you made on First Day will you break first?  And how do you prefer to break them -- use you hammers, or with a celebration as of the throwing off of shackles, or with a furtive and a sneaky air, or some other way?

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

The translator suggested that some people seem to find a joy in making and then destroying their resolutions, but you are more kind and sober than that.

[kibbe.livejournal.com]

I do not know. At one point the intent was actualy to try and make resaputions that you could actualy do. Sorta as a way to make yourself better. AKA, I resolve to spend less nights setting tell 4 am playing WoW.
Now its more something people do because its a social thing, people make them because thay are expected to make them, not because thay actualy intend in any way shape or form to atempt to follow them. In a way, I guess its kinda sad.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

(OOC -- Last year I started to take them seriously, and kept both of mine and then some. This year we'll see, but I'm doing OK on the resolution to get at least one novel in print so far...)

[kibbe.livejournal.com]

oocly THats very good, you are a rather intertaining author, else I would not have stayed up tell 4 am to finnish reading the journal, nore would I be checking LJ so often to see if you had posted another.
Currently thay seem more interested in formula fiction more than anything else. Really its kinda sad. Might be best to start with a small press, get your name out there at lest.
YOu need an editor give me a yell at lest. I hav read more than one book before it went to the publisher.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[Yay!]

[Yeah, the book in question is pretty much unpublishable. It's a first-person novel from the point of view of a sentient, enslaved tree. It's got kind of a 1970's-sf feel to it, from before the current set of formulas took over. I bounced it off a few publishers already. Now, it's time to explore the evolving world of self-publishing.]