Addendum to Writing Resolutions

Yesterday I wrote about my resolutions for the new year as they pertain to writing. I told someone the other day how silly I think celebrating New Year's is. I said this while watching our nextdoor neighbor's kids setting off fire crackers in the street. It such an arbitrary thing to "celebrate."

"Yay! I survived a year!" just doesn't have the same ring to it as "Yay! We fought and won our independence and became our own country!"

Nevertheless, the one thing I will give to New Year's is that resolutions are awesome things.

In that vein, my addendum to yesterday's resolutions on writing:

Fourth . . . I will write three short stories this year.

I wrote a ton of short stories ten years or so ago. One of my most trusted readers just asked for some of my old short stories and I unearthed stuff I'd clean forgotten about. Last year when I was worried about my second novel being finished I thought about releasing a collection of my short stories. Hard to believe but I have plenty enough to make a collection. Maybe it's time to unearth that idea. It's certainly time to unearth the short story writer who used to inhabit this person. This resolution should help dig that writer up.