Every two weeks just became every month.
-Finish First Novel: I have radical ideas regarding how I'm going to be putting this out now, so I don't think that this will be finished until the fall. I'm still excited and hopeful that it will be done this year.
-Poetry Contest: I found out early last month that Write Bloody's poetry contest was cancelled this year. The other presses they suggested to submit to don't have open submissions, either. This resolution is scrapped.
-Land an Agent: Based on what i plan to do for my first novel, I don't intend on seeking an agent anymore and am scrapping this resolution.
-Gain Twenty pounds: Gained another five pounds sitting on my butt and eating. Fifteen away. I need to make sure I'm going to the gym so I don't end up fat.
-Get a 4.0 GPA: I'm not sure if this still possible for this semester, but if I don't get a 4.0 I think will at least get above a 3.5. So even if the resolution doesn't go through, I still did a lot better because of it.
-Rack up fifty to a hundred rejections: I have about ten rejections so far, so I'm making some kind of progress. However, I've also been sort of lazy and uninspired when it comes to producing new content, and when I do produce new content it gets sent to either nappyafro or Starved where, because of my relationship with them, it's sure to get published. I have a list of online lit mags that I need to start going through.
-Get a 30 or better on the MCAT: I tested at 19/45 on Saturday's practice test after showing up about 10 minutes late from the start of the test. The Verbal Reasoning section was scored at 8/15 even though I only got nine questions wrong, which doesn't seem right to me. More practice tests will give me a better picture before I take the test in August.
-Write an article for nappyafro every two weeks: Realistically, there was no way this was going to happen. Hip-hop is really boring this year after the entire industry released an album in 2013. What I'll probably end up doing is writing like three to five articles at a time and then sending them in bulk rather than any consistent schedule. Scrapping this resolution, too.
-Learn how to make beats: Nope.
-Learn how to code: Been coding for a while now, but I've gotten a little bit rusty because I don't do it everyday. With that said, my knowledge of both Python and C++ is good, but my HTML is quite poor.
As you can see, I've already had to scrap three resolutions and there is the possibility that I won't make a fourth happen. To be fair, some of this was circumstance and out of my control, but I have to at least salvage the rest.
-h
