A goal, not a resolution

Haven't seen that icon for a while, have you? I don't do the New Year's Resolution thing. I've always been baffled by that. So let's just say I'm making a goal to do more usage and writing posts soon. I know a lot of people have been disappointed that I abandoned them. It's just been hard to do that, to do any kind of writing. I never review anymore, I never do usage posts, I never seem to work on the fanfic... I suck. I know. With BPAL therapy, I shall endeavor to do better. ;-)

Also, I think I may have to expand into writing tutorials or something. I keep seeing these rants gussied up in the form of writing instructions and "grammar" tools that are just so effing wrong passed around from LJ to LJ, as if they're the word of [insert muse of writing here -- was that Calliope? I can't remember]. This just frosts my cookies, lemme tell ya. These people don't know fuck-all about writing, but too many people think they're offering good advice (word of warning: If the poster is telling you how to write, and they spell definitely with an a, you are on shaky ground). I'm going to have to round up my fellow editrixes and we can start some sort of writing tutorial cabal.

Thank you to the lovely people who sent me holiday cards, dine, keiko_kirin, aukestrel, paraviondeux, and batwrangler. I also suck in this department because I didn't do a single holiday card this year, not a one, even for my dad, and I always do holiday cards. This Christmas seemed harder somehow this year. And batwrangler, you get special long-distance holiday {{hugs}} -- I know it's been a bad time for you. Even if I haven't put it on paper, I'm grateful to you all for remembering me, and I'm thinking about you.