Accomplishments and new goals

I'm sorry in adavance, this is kind of long.

Hi, I'm kind of making this a recap and set new goals for myself blog. I really don't have any real news of any sort to discuss. Nothing exciting really ever happens to me, but I like to try to keep this blog thing going. It's fun, and such. I have trouble keeping up with them, and I kind of feel like I have to keep some kind of journal to be a real writer, but anyways, back to my point.

Project for awesome was last week, and my video had over 100 views and 50-something comments, I was pretty excited about that. I knew I wasn't going to get spammed by the nerdfighters or anything, but i was still very excited about the comments and views I go. I was in the live chat some of Thursday and most of Friday. On Thursday Hayley G Hover said she liked my user name, she said "Misuseofairqoutes, that's one of the best user names I've seen today, and I've seen a lot!" That kind of made my day.

Now to the core of this blog:

I said at the beining of the year that I would read 25 books, and I have completed this mission. At the end of this, I will leave a list of the books that I've read in 2009.

I also promised myself that I would make progress on a novel, and have a first draft done by the end of the year. That didn't so much happen, but I did win NaNoWriMo this year, and I have a pretty soild most of a first draft of that book going. I'm still working on Universe, getting bits and pieces together. I haven't come close to givng up on it, but not having to write every day for class kind of slowed my writing down a bit.

I have new goals of 2010, which I feel if I don't get them down somewhere I'll forget about them, and I'll let it all go to the wayside. I'm uping my books read goal to 30, easily doable, especailly with the amount of books I've asked for for Christmas. I am always open to new books as well, so if anyone has any suggestiongs, leave them as a comment, or something. I'll read pretty much anything.

My other media related goal is to make more youtube videos. Although I made a video every week for 10 months this year, I only posted 8 videos on my personal channel. I'm going to start aiming of at least bi-weekly videos. I have a couple weird/funny videos that I plan to make, and I want to vlog more. I enjoy the youtube experice, the whole culture of it, and I really want to feel like I have more of a part in it. So my goal is to come out of 2010 with at least 20 videos on my personal channel. I think I'm going to do vlog-everday-November, along with my NaNo next year. Don't qoute (mis-spelled on purpose my friends) on it, but I think I'm going to try.

I also want to have a full first draft of Universe done no later than April. That way I can have someone, My roommate, or Jen, or someone like that read it, edit it, and give me ideas to improve it, so that I can re-group, and hopefully send out a solid second draft to a few publishers by the end of the year. My life goal is to be published. I have to start somewhere.

Anyway, those are my goals for next year. If you have any book suggestions, let me know. Also, if you have any cool video ideas that you wouldn't mind sharing, I would LOVE those too.

AND THAT IS THE END OF THE STORY.

My 2009 book list!
Author: Maureen Johnson

13 little blue envelopes
Keys to the Golden Firebird
Devilish
Girl at Sea
The Bermudez Triangle
Suite Scarlet
Author: John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
Let it Snow



Melissa Anelli
Harry, A History
Alan Lastufka and Michael W Dean
Youtube, an Insider's Guide to climbing the charts
Stephen King
On Writing
Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter


Louise Rennison
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging
On the Bright side, Now I'm the Girlfriend of a Sex God
Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas
Michael J Fox
Lucky Man
Always Looking up, the Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

Ann Brashares
Girls in Pants
Forever in Blue (the 3 and 4 sisterhood of the traveling pants books)

Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls

Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs, and CocoPuffs


Scott Westerfeld
Peeps
The Last days
Uglies
Pretties
Specials

Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper

Today is awesome because I can get amazing internet connection in the attic of the apartment, and the window over-looks the kind of cute snow covered houses on our street.