You may remember that back in June, I did a mid-year evaluation and proposed some revised resolutions based on my ones from January. Here's how I made out:
Revised 2012 Resolutions (as seen here)
(Note: Purple shows my mid-year progress and orange are my final results.)
Writing:
~complete another round of revisions on Beast of Bannock manuscript
-Just keep swimming...
-Alas, no. (My poor neglected Ellis!)
~finish first draft of Pirate Ferret
-Just keep swimming...
-YES! AND finished several subsequent drafts! HAPPY DANCE!
~send out more query letters (blegh)
-See above. (I can't put the cart before the horse, now can I?)
-Soooooooo close...so very very close!
~keep up with SCBWI bulletins
-So far so good!
-Totally derailed on this one. FAILED!
~continue this delightful blog :)
-Well, duh!
-Mission accomplished!
~uncover the One Big Secret to publishing success
-Hey, I can dream, can't I? ;)
-Hopefully getting there... :)
Art:
~just have SOMETHING artistic to show for each month
-Baby steps :)
-YES! Battleship sunk!
~draw one human--just ONE
-I can do ONE by December 31st! I swear!
-I did! I did! Booyah! link
~experiment with digital painting tools and techniques
-I'll learn how to paint fur and grass AFTER I figure out what all those brushes do
-YES! Experimented with grass, leaves, snow, and more! (see my DA gallery)
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-I think the above 3 goals are plenty
-I was right. There was NO time for this.
~keep up with online art network
-That deviantArt inbox is already getting full!
-Aye! (My DA inbox never seems to get smaller, but I guess that's a good thing!)
~feel confident enough to throw my hat into the illustrator ring
-Maybe by the end of the year...
-Um, this cowardly artist will also stick that under "Getting There..."
Pertaining to Health and/or Sanity Well-Being:
~play video games once a week
-This may sound stupid to you, but it's important to me
-Meh. Off and on--at least more successful than most years.
~take dog for walk twice a week
-It's summer. No excuses.
-Sorry puppy. I FAILED!
~watch just 6 movies that are still in plastic wrap
-That's only one per month!
-This one also gets a big ol' goose egg. FAILED!
~try one new recipe per month
-Piece of cake! (And cake recipes count!)
-YES! (And what a yummy accomplishment!)
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-Ain't gonna happen. Why stress about it?
-Didn't happen, but I have been getting at least 6 hours on most nights!
~spend more quality time with my hubby and furry family
-Always room for improvement!
-I think I did much better at this by the end of 2012!
~pay someone else to figure out how to clone me
-Like I have time to discover that!
-If only...
After weighing these successes and failures, I give myself an overall score of: Not Too Shabby! Sure, I didn't accomplish everything on my list of resolutions, but I can definitely put check marks next to a few biggies! Plus, some of my "failures" have actually involved taking big strides towards making them "successes," so I suppose they're not total flops after all.
Upon consideration of your own resolutions, how did you do? I hope your successes, failures, and inbetweeners have given you a good jumping off point for 2013!
Now, it's time for me to scamper off and come up with this year's resolutions! :)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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