micahsaul

A week or so ago, I had dinner with my girlfriend, her family, and the family of her close friend. The father in said family happens to be a professor in the Stanford Creative Writing department, and we got to talk about writing: how to teach it, how to force yourself to do it, how to stay in practice when you’re no longer required to do it, etc. And I realized that it has now been several years since I finished a piece… poem, play, short story, anything. Thus:

My Resolution (which happens to have taken effect on the new year but is not, in fact, a capital letter New Years Resolution because said New Years Resolutions are destined to fail (see 2007s quit smoking resolution) and really, January 1 is such an arbitrary and occidental-centric milestone):

I, Micah Saul, do hereby swear to do the following three things every day of the following year:

1. Write at least two “observation journal” style entries per day in the newly purchased Moleskine 2008 Daily Planner.

2. Upon arriving home, regardless of how late it is or how tired I am, write for at least 20 minutes. This time need not be spent working on a project, but at least 20 minutes must be spent writing.

3. Update this blog with either the output of item 1, item 2, or a separate text unrelated to the previous two items. In addition, keep status updates on this blog, perhaps in a Twitter side-bar.

4. Invite all and sundry to taunt me mercilessly if any of the above three items are not performed everyday.

Until the sidebar is added, updates will go here:

1. Wrote two journal entries.
2. Spent 20 minutes composing this blog entry.
3. See item 2.
4. No taunting today!

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