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Well, the week is over, and it’s been a long one. Hence the title.

This weekend sees me hooking up with someone I haven’t seen in a long while, one of the guys responsible for pushing me along the whole path of writing, getting me to look at the activity and figure things out, talk about it, open up.

So, we’re going to get good and drunk. Seems fitting.

It’s still early Friday as I type this, but hopefully today is the day my order of books arrive, so that I can see what a larger-than-normal order of books from my supplier looks like. That, and I kind of want to start handing out some of the Shakespeare stuff to the folks that want it.

**Update** Yaaaayyyyyy! Boooooooks!  Yaaaaaaayyyyyy!

Shakespeare – The Scottish Play – Act 4 Scene 2 done

Well lookie here . . . I’ve just realized that I’m probably going to have to start photoshopping soon, or as the people from Adobe would prefer you putting it, “Opening their program called PhotoShop ™”  They really don’t like the invented word ‘photoshopping’ for some reason, though I dunno why. It’s like Google saying “Uhm, could you please please pretty-please stop calling it ‘Googling’? We’ve worked very hard to get the word “Google” taken seriously.”

Another thing, just FYI – Lady Macduff is a total nut-job. A big wad of passive aggressive wrapped in a thin veneer of  hysterical parent. This play is messed up.

Quarry – High-level outline mostly done

Yeah, it took a while, but I muscled through, and while I’ve got a radically different story from what I originally envisioned (at least from the main character’s perspective) it’s now doable. I think after a quick drawing of the timeline, cementing some of the sub-plot and character quirks, I might just be ready to do the in-depth outlining. Ye gods . . . sometimes you start wondering if you’ll ever be read to just do the thing, instead of planning everything to the nth degree. . .

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…