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In 2020

Prompt: Happy New Year! Prompt: What are your plans for 2020, this New Year?

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I don’t really make plans or come up with resolutions due to self-protection. This is because if I promise something to someone (including me) and can’t do it, I beat on me rather badly, and I am no masochist.

But do I want to do things this year? Yes. Several. At the beginning.

First, I’ll try to stay alive as that is the first rule for anyone of us.

Then, since I am a reader first and I read quite a bit as it is, I’ll concentrate on reading more of the classics this year, and I hope, works of better contemporary authors, which isn’t a given. Sometimes a brand-new author can come up with a knockout book while a famed award-winner produces a dud. Not being sure of the outcome, I’m crossing my fingers on this.

Then, I’ll try to finish writing the first draft of 2019’s NaNo novel. Although I wrote 54K in November, the story isn’t finished.

Then, I have had this habit of writing little notes on pieces of paper when an idea strikes or I come across a quote or something. Eventually, those notes made up such a big mess. They had taken up so much space, in boxes and such, that I threw away a big lot of them, but I thought the better of it. I thought I should keep what is left of them inside my purses and around my desk or stuck inside books and notebooks. So last month, I started copying them into a private item here in my WdC port. This will take some time but I want to finish or continue it. If I can finish it, I can copy the file into several places for future reference and delete the item here. I believe WdC to be more reliable than any Cloud space I have anywhere.

Another thing is I want to give away some things from my closet and the household items as I don’t want to turn into one of those crazed hoarders. These things I want to do, but I am not putting any pressure on myself to do them.

Other things, I want to keep the status quo and hope that nothing turns worse, breaks, and changes into something that would hurt or annoy me.