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The year we make contact. Or, was that 2001? I can’t quite remember. See, that’s the problem with writing stuff that’s in the future … we think it’s really good, we remember it, and then when that actual date comes around we go, “Hey! What the crap, man? Aren’t we supposed to be seeing monoliths on Jupiter, and have flying cars ‘n stuff like that? What gives?”

Indeed … if literary future-thinkers are to be believed, we should have a second sun by now, three-point-two flying cars, and something called ‘thought crime’, which I’m pretty sure I’d be guilty of if it actually existed. Ever walk into a store and think, “Man, I could just totally grab that thing and run this-a-way, and there’s nothing nobody could do about it!!” Yup… guilty! (pounds gavel) I sentence you to forty years in the electric chair.

Anyway, this post isn’t about that.

No sir, it’s about what *I* plan on doing in 2010! That’s right… I’m going to take a rather daring step and post some new-years-eve resolutions exactly three weeks *after* new years, just so they become extra poignant. Are you ready? Here they are.

1. I will finish my current project, which is *so* top secret that if I were to tell you what it’s called, a very influential writer would start spinning in his grave. I mean it, too! He’d be generating enough torque in his final resting place, if you hooked up a battery to his forehead and looped a copper wire around him in a ten foot circle, he’d light up Times Square…
2. I will begin/middle/finish my YA novel… the one I’ve been mulling around in my head for the past two years. Yes, the one that will be turned into a multi-million-dollar movie within five years, because that’s what they’ve been doing with any sort of literature that involves seventeen-year-olds and even *remotely* occult circumstances. I’m gonna be rich, I tells ya… *rich*!
3. I’m going to finish pt 1 of my trilogy. I’m so serious about this, I haven’t even bothered to make some sort of gag about it.
4. I will begin the third of Vincent’s journals.
5. I will look both ways before crossing the street. *honest*

As for the last one, based on my understanding of this morning’s walk to work, as well as this evening’s walk back from work, I’ll have to be very careful to pull off #5, just so I’m in a position to be able to pull off #1-4…