New Year, New Thing

January 1, 2008

So I’m starting this new thing. It’s an experiment to help get my creative juices flowing. It’s called Conwoocious Say in Two hundred Words or Less. I'm going to try to write one snippet a day, that is (usually) 200 words or less in length. That’s it. I can write anything, and it can be about anything, just as long Microsoft Word (Tools Menu, then Word Count…hey, I strive to edutain) says it is 200 words or less. Here’s today’s entry:

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So I’m starting this new thing…just kidding. New Year’s Day. A day of hope, happiness, and hangovers. New Year’s Resolutions. Broken promises. Wait a sec. That’s just cynical. I think it’s wonderful to resolve to make changes, however small, as long as those changes are for the better. What are my 2008 resolutions? Aside from writing 200 words a day, I resolve to do or try a new thing every day. Even if it’s something as mundane as trying a new sweetener in my coffee, as long as it’s something I’ve never done or tried before, it counts. Today’s is easy: Aside from having peach bellinis for breakfast (the peach contributes to my daily fruit allowance…as does eating Fruit Loops, and chewing Juicy Fruit), I’m starting a new blog containing writing snippets of 200 words or less. As a kid, aside from Ultimate World Dictator, ala The Brain from Pinky and the Brain, I wanted to be a writer. Unlike other writers, I didn’t write prolifically, yet when I did, I loooved it. After hating it for the first page or 200 words or so. Hence my determination to write every day, starting with 200 words or less.

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