Last year, I rolled into 2011 promising myself that I would do a range of things. There was the usual weight loss/fitness yearning, of course...but I've found that's a commitment best made continually. Linking it to the New Year has just never quite worked out for me. Instead, I pledged myself to e-publishing a book I'd written in college. That was done, thank the Maker.This year, the creative project that's sitting on the back burner is an exploration of M-Theory, multiverse cosmology, and the Biblical narrative. It's tentatively titled, "New Heavens, New Earth," but I'm thinkin' that feels a bit grandiose. Ah well. A better title will come.
It has sat untouched on this laptop and my backup drive for a few months, crowded from my day-to-day by the demands of kids and work and my D.Min. program. But I'm 20,000 words in, almost half a book. I'm still hoping to get it finished. It's still interesting to me, dagnabbit, and even if it goes nowhere, I want to get 'er done.
So...that's the resolution. I'll get this manuscript done by the end of August, hopefully well before the Mayan universe comes to a crashing end in December.
To stir my discipline in getting it done, I'm also hoping to make it an independent study elective for my doctoral work. Structures of accountability are remarkably efficacious in getting yourself motivated to do the things you know you really need to do.
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