New Years Resolutions for 2006
December 30th, 2005
As 2005 draws to a close, I’ve been thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t need to lose weight or quit smoking, and even if I did—those wouldn’t be very interesting for you to read about. What would be interesting—and by interesting, I also mean challenging—is to resolve to complete a number of different creative projects and post about them here on my blog.
Creative Project Resolutions
- Comic
After having worked with so many comic artists, been involved in a comic collective, helped start a comic printing company, and contributed to a book on comics, it’s somewhat surprising that I’ve never created one of my own. - Design
Redesign this site. Yes, this is an inevitable one… - Game
Over the last year I’ve been doing a lot of reading about game design theory, and working on some ideas for what I think would make a fun board-game. This year I’m going to turn those ideas into a finished game and publish it. - Music
Learn to play some type of musical instrument. The Ukelele is looking like a real contender here. - Painting
At least 2 paintings I feel good enough about to put in frames. - Software
It’s been a while since I’ve done much coding, so in 2006 I’m going to make sure I produce at least one interesting script, plugin, extension, or widget. - Video
It’s been much too long since I shot and edited any video. This year I’m going to finish a 5 minute creative video and submit it to some type of competition or festival. - Writing
Over the next year I’m going to try and improve the quality, quantity and frequency of my writing—both for this website and for other projects—whether they’re technical articles, creative writing, or contributions to collaborative projects.
Let’s see how well I can keep these resolutions. Wish me luck!
See some other people’s 2006resolutions.
That’s a pretty hefty list of projects you’ve given yourself. I think I can help you out with projects 1,2,3,7 (channel 101!) and 8
2005 was a very productive year for me. I finished my 3rd comic book, which I am now trying to get published. I’ve done a bunch of Flash projects, and learned a lot more about the program. Also, I’ve been learning a lot more about graphic and web designing and I started a brand new daily web comic.
But unfortunately, it was also a very disappointing year. I think my only resolution for 2006 is to do more of the same, but promote myself more, make more contacts and definitely learn how to “schmooooze”
Hopefully this will be the year that all my work finally starts to pay off.
Happy New Year!