It’s a brand new year, with spanking new resolutions that I’m ignoring.

Way back when I thought that time would be elastic in 2008, I resolved to do daily writing exercises prompted by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett’s Pen On Fire: a busy woman’s guide to igniting the writer within.

This seemed like a no-brainer.  I want to be a writer.  I need to develop my writing.  To develop my writing, I have to practice writing.  This guide promises to “ignite your pen and help you become the writer you have always wanted to be.”  And, I only had to commit fifteen minutes a day.

Woohoo!  Anyone can find fifteen minutes a day, right?

The author is talking to me.  I know she is.  On the book’s cover there is a frumpy, middle-aged woman in PJ’s, with her pulled up in a ponytail.  That’s me! 

And the author knows about my life.  “Finding even an hour, much less a day, free of work, children, or chores can seem impossible.”  Right on! 

Finding an hour is impossible.  Finding fifteen minutes, on the other hand, that’s easy peasy.  Anyone can find fifteen minutes.

So, it’s now the third day of the brand new year, and I haven’t found fifteen minutes.  I’m already forty-five minutes behind this schedule.  Yikes!

Fortunately, I have a deadline and a support group.  Once again, I have committed to a project in a public forum.  Those real writers on The Home Educators Writers Group heard my resolution and egads! they’ve joined me on this venture.  They are expecting to read about these writing exercises on Friday.  hmm… I’ve got till Friday.

I live to procrastinate another day.  Isn’t that what New Year’s Resolutions are all about?

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