My Agenda 2013

It’s the new year. Uso na naman ang new year’s resolutions and/or things I want to accomplish. Of course, inggetera that I am, makikigaya ako. Not that I’ve never written down resolutions before but well, I’ve kinda stopped kasi I guess if there’s no list, then I’d have every excuse not to accomplish anything. But not this time. This time, I want to accomplish what I’ll write down as my 2013 agenda. Really. So I’ll make my goals simple.

On Writing…

I want to be able to finish twenty-four manuscripts. That’s two manuscripts a month. I’d been targeting twenty-four manuscripts a year since two years ago. I haven’t even been able to reach even half that goal. Yeah, pffft! But really, I do want to achieve this as this means I’ll be able to pay up a lot of backlogged payables. ehehe… So, to start off, I have lined up, for January, those two manuscripts that have been hanging for the past three or four months. Darnit, yes, it’s been that long. And I need to finish editing that translation, cutting down at least 32 pages, in the next two days. Whew…

How do I do this? I mean writing the new work… I will devote regular hours from Monday to Friday to writing, finishing at least 3k words daily. Or more, if I can. Parang office lang. May routine.

By the way, I just want to clarify. MS count is based on 1 MS = approximately 20k words (or thereabouts) or 96-98 pages. So if I finish a story for a Premium book, I’ll count that as two manuscripts accomplished.

On Reading…

I think one of the reasons why I’d been having difficulty writing is because I’ve kinda skipped my reading. I have stacks of books at home, all under the someday I will get to read you pile. Well, that someday has got to be today. After my daily writing hours, I shall spend the rest of the day reading a book. Whether or not I finish the book by the time my eyes are ready to pop out doesn’t matter. I just need to read. Tom Clancy, here I come!

Personal…

I. Need. To. Lose. Weight. Seriously. I know my back problems, my knee and ankle problems are all because I’m too heavy for my frame. And that heart flutter I’d been complaining about? Nah! It’s not because of a naked Joe Manganiello. It’s the extra weight. Still. Besides, dad and mom challenged me to lose weight. Sabi ni Mudrakels, kailangan pumayat ako in the same percentage na ililiit ng bagong kotse ko (na bibilhin nila for me) mula kay Pjay. If you’re not familiar, my old car, Pjay is a 3-door 4WD Pajero. I’m getting a Hyundai i10 as a replacement. From SUV to teeny tiny 4-door sedan. It’s like asking me to slim down to how I was 13 years ago…  So, we’re talking XXX humongous pounds. God help me.

The Kitsch Girls and I are going ot Korea with some friends this May. And I’m hoping to accompany my sweets Elise to HK/Macau in August but we’ll probably have one of our Baguio-PMA lamyerda hopefully before I go back to Dumaguete (did I mention I’m currently in Manila?) this Feb. Oh, and we’ll joyride the PNR to Naga, too, likely sometime June, when I get back from Korea. I’d like to be able to go back to Singapore, too, and just play yaya to my pamangkins. Celebrating my birthday there sounds like a good idea…

That’s about it, I guess. I won’t talk about lovelife. That part is something that I prefer to just leave to fate.

So there. My 2013 Agenda. Ulitin ko lang, God help me… 🙂