I ‘ve  got two goals for this 2010

1.  I’m going to try to have a little less fun

2. I’m going to work harder on my writing.

Oh. Who am I fooling.

I’m 45, I look 45 and all of those diet and cosmetic surgery ads you see on the sides of buses- those are aimed at women like me.

Fun. Oh. Right.

So really, all I have is one goal for 2010- and that goal is to work and improve my writing.

I think that over the years I have learned that I can write and hope that somewhere someone who matters in the world of publishing will notice me- which to be- realistic I am not exactly the type of person you would notice in a crowd ( that particular part of my lack of presence worked for me when I was  Mortician’s  Apprentice- so you know I that wouldn’t find that a total negative) so who oh why that should change because I tell stories?

Well I think that what it comes down to is doing what you do well- that you should be so sure of your skills and happy with what you can produce at the end of the day that it doesn’t matter what other people think of what you do.

Besides I’ve learned, via the world of Politics, that results count.

That’s right, make your own results.

Nobody can make you talented and nobody can make you suck, but you can start and finish a story, or a play or that cookbook you’ve always dreamed of putting out there.

Just get something, or lots of somethings finished.

And that leads me to the subject of shameless self promotion.

I’m all for it.

The world that the internets has opened to writers and story tellers now days is huge. You need to make it your business to understand it. 

Look at what Independent filmmakers can do- Musicians are doing the same – they creating, funding and promoting their own work, so why are writers showing up at Publishing Houses like some pathetic orphan with a begging bowl in their hands begging for ‘more’?

Well, that’s what I’ve decided to do with my New Year.

And you?