Tightrope to the Sun: i resolve not to dissolve

Friday, January 3

Here's another resolution post to clog your feeds and minds at this time of year. I've seen posts of people saying they hate resolutions and some say they love them because it's nice to feel inspired, if only for the first month. Last year was the first year that I achieved any of my resolutions and that feeling of accomplishment stretched out over a year is really an amazing feeling. It's nice to work at something for an entire year and get it done. It's like the world's best to do list finally being crossed off.

I don't have as many resolutions this year because college is a thing again this year. But I do have a few.

1. Read 40 books in 2014
Last year I read 50 books and that was awesome. This year I want to read a few less to allow myself some time for school and junk. Yay books!

2. Finish my novel and have query letters ready to send out by October.
So I have my 50,000 words but I have a few more to go until the book is completely done. I hope to finish the first draft by at least March or April, edit all summer, send the book out by fall.

3. Get a 4.0 each semester in school.
I'm not letting college to to waste this time around. I'm at my dream school in my dream major. This will be my time. It will be all for me. I'm going to do the absolute best I can and settle for nothing less.

4. Read every book that is assigned to me in school in its entirety.
No sparknotes, no summaries. I want to read them all. HA we will see.

5. Do not let myself get washed away or dissolve.
I'm through compromising myself and my dreams. I'm done taking any crap from anywhere. I am my own person and I will live this life for myself before anyone else. I want to stay true to myself and who I am and never let my personality wilt for other humans. I like myself too much.

Not too many, nothing that I know I cannot do. No fitness crap that I truly don't care about. 2014 will be my year because I will make it mine.

Let's go, lovelies. Let's get this year.

via *

words

Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, 'Must I write?'

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

-Ernest Hemingway

Study broadly and without fear.

-John Green

Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic, and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes, knows peace, lives connected to truth. Not writing is ache, betrayal, death of the soul and imagination.

-Coco J. Ginger

9 comments:

his little ladyJanuary 3, 2014 at 4:07 PM
I love this challenge to read 40 books in the new year! I already have 1 down, I guess 39 to go!
Would love some book recommendations so post the books that you read if you can! :)
xo TJ

http://www.hislittlelady.com
helen January 3, 2014 at 4:15 PM
couldn't have said it any better! hope your year is off to a good start x
AnonymousJanuary 3, 2014 at 4:21 PM
YES! this was so inspiring! good luck with your goals this year! (impressed by how many books you read--i considered myself a reader until i saw that. ha!)
sJanuary 4, 2014 at 4:46 AM
i love that - 2014 will be my year because i will make it mine. no victim of circumstances, just owning it.
Emmett KatherineJanuary 4, 2014 at 8:24 AM
happy 2014! you have lots of ambitious goals, i'm sure you will achieve them :) I def need to read more books not less this year!
lauraslwJanuary 4, 2014 at 3:46 PM
Ah Em! What a wonderful post. 40 books sounds wonderful - I tried setting myself 50 but wittled it down to just 24 ha! I love your "No fitness crap" - my kinda person. And I'm really eager to read your book!

So if you ever want a little friend to have a glance over your hard work, please choose me! :o)

Laura xx
http://www.lauraslw.com
lovelytravelssJanuary 6, 2014 at 8:44 PM
I love these resolutions so much!! I read a lot in 2013 but need to step it up a bit this year!! #5 is perfect. I feel the same way..but didn't know how to write it into words!

Hope xx
http://lovelytravelss.blogspot.com
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Thank you for your words; they light a fire in my heart. You are lovely.