The Countdown
I've decided to create a fun countdown, using today as a good starting point, for one year. I've realized that I've been wasting most of my life, and what I've really wanted all of my life is to be a writer, and it's never really happened for me. Instead, I'm really not taken seriously as a writer or as anything else for that matter. So, I've decided to give myself a year, 365 days to achieve my goal of being successful as a writer. Well, actually, my goals are going to be:
1. Receive an advance of $10,000 or more for one of my novels/books, which is the average advance a writer receives for a first book.
2. Get an actual job that's a real job. Not some part time job. Not some temp job. Not some job that's going to eventually one day, possibly, with lots of luck and flowery dispositions, lead to some future job that doesn't exist yet. A real job that I'll be able to work at as a career, not some placeholder until I find something better because I'm getting older, and I just don't see that happening.
3. An actual life partner. Although to be honest, this last one is not even going to be my main focus because if one of the other ones doesn't come forth this year, then I'm not sure this one is really going to be enough.
So, what does this all mean? Well, I'm giving myself 365 days, August 1st, 2008, to make it happen.
It's kind of ironic because I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning about how they've crunched statistics on people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. It turns out that these people tend to be EXACTLY like me, except they're a year younger than me. Exactly like me.
So, my thought is this. If by August 1st, 2008, I don't have one of those things happening in my life, I'm joining the statistics. I'll be keeping a running countdown on the blog from this point forward, mainly to remind myself more than anything else because not too many people read my blog anyway. Hell, not too many people read ANYTHING of mine anyway, and I guess that's part of the problem.
But anyway....
Countdown: 365 days
Stumble It!
1. Receive an advance of $10,000 or more for one of my novels/books, which is the average advance a writer receives for a first book.
2. Get an actual job that's a real job. Not some part time job. Not some temp job. Not some job that's going to eventually one day, possibly, with lots of luck and flowery dispositions, lead to some future job that doesn't exist yet. A real job that I'll be able to work at as a career, not some placeholder until I find something better because I'm getting older, and I just don't see that happening.
3. An actual life partner. Although to be honest, this last one is not even going to be my main focus because if one of the other ones doesn't come forth this year, then I'm not sure this one is really going to be enough.
So, what does this all mean? Well, I'm giving myself 365 days, August 1st, 2008, to make it happen.
It's kind of ironic because I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning about how they've crunched statistics on people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. It turns out that these people tend to be EXACTLY like me, except they're a year younger than me. Exactly like me.
So, my thought is this. If by August 1st, 2008, I don't have one of those things happening in my life, I'm joining the statistics. I'll be keeping a running countdown on the blog from this point forward, mainly to remind myself more than anything else because not too many people read my blog anyway. Hell, not too many people read ANYTHING of mine anyway, and I guess that's part of the problem.
But anyway....
Countdown: 365 days
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Stumble It!
posted by Duane @ 2:18 PM
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