YWS New Year's Resolutions

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As 2013 draws to a close, many people are thinking about resolutions for the new year to try and improve things for themselves, or just do things differently.

I always think of YWS related resolutions, and I think my main three this year are:

1. Review everyday.
2. Greet more regularly.
3. Make some new friends. *

What about you guys? What are your resolutions for YWS?

* Not that my old friends on here aren't amazing
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~ Finish a novel and post it on YWS.
~ Get five blue stars.
~ Figure out what all those funny buttons in the Settings Dashboard do.
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Post more Doctor Who poems (people like them, so, you know.)
Post a novel
And review more.
"We're all just stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?" The Eleventh Doctor




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I'm getting my first personal laptop sometime in the New year, so my main three would be:

-Be more active on the site.
-Talk to my friends more! I've really neglected them because mobile doesn't have the chatbar.
-Write more!

:)
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-Review more, of course!
-I want to actually finish a novel this year....
-Stay in touch with the great friends I have, but also make many new friends!
-Welcome new members more often
-Post my work more
-Participate in Nano and Napo

:)
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Mine would be to review more, of course. Everyday. Also, finish a complete novel and post it.
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Well this last year I finished the very bad first draft of my novel, so for this next year I want to edit it and then finish the second draft. Hopefully the second draft is my final one :D




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1- Become healthier- both body AND mind.
2- Decorate my room in the new house my way and create a sanctuary
3- Use that sanctuary
4- Create the projects I've been dreaming of for YWS and make sure they happen
5- Finish my serial
6- Three pirouettes
7- Double everything in jumps.
8- Finish math with a B.
9- Make memories. I'm a teenager and I don't have nearly enough.
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these tornadoes are for you


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I just found an awesome quote for you guys --

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one."




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I'm not very good with being definite, so what I would like to achieve by the end of the year is basically feeling more whole :)
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regularly went cuckoo."
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Kill off Lestrade, trust me this is YWS related.

i guess I also want to make sure more people on this site get the respect and consideration they deserve.
Sometimes it's nice to just laugh at yourself!
I should know, I do it all the time!




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I'm going to forget. All the pain and hurt and worry,

I'm going to forget.
And lose weight while I'm at it.
Happy New Year.
And the heart is hard to translate
It has a language of its own
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs,
And prayers and proclamations

-Florence + The Machine (All This and Heaven Too)




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[quote="joebot"]I just found an awesome quote for you guys --

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one."[/quote]
I have another good quote.

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday".
And the heart is hard to translate
It has a language of its own
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs,
And prayers and proclamations

-Florence + The Machine (All This and Heaven Too)




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0.) Tag a bunch of people in this post.
1.) Finish my novel and make another pact with @Tenyo for 2015 ;)
2.) Convince @Meshugenah to make me an admin for a day so I change @SparkToFlame's name to GloriousBlaze
3.) Doom some unfortunate soul to a future of mentoring me in poetry o.o
4.) finish the LLL SB, as well as WR 2 (I'm looking at you @Auxiira @Alvarin @megsug @ShadowVyper @VeerenVKS @Blackwood @Shadowlight etc., it's a team effort thing!)
5.) Actually write proper posts for Writing Gooder o:
6.) Get some more stars and make them a little more colourful c:
7.) Meet another YWSer in person :3 (@Niebla was the first!)
8.) Not get DJMed at any point (even though exams are round the corner but yeah)
9.) Do an awesome and currently secret thing >:3

Less YWS related, I want to start a writing club at my uni, pass my IELTS with high enough score, and then get accepted to uni abroad and move, either to study there from year one or via some kind of exchange program. Oh and publish a book.. ideally the very novel I mentioned above!
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literary fantasy with a fairytale flavour




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~YWS Related~


1.) Get two blue stars by this time next year.
2.) Be more faithful with my Squills Editorial duties.
3.) Star a petition for @AriaAdams 's cause to change Sparky's username. ;)
4.) Write and post the rest of A Fleeting Eternity.

~Real-Life Related~


1.) Start eating healthier and exercising regularly (@DudeMcGuy -- this is the best I came up with.)
2.) Stay on the Dean's List
3.) Don't overdraw my checking account...again.
4.) Become more patient with my family.

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
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