{"id":8507,"date":"2014-12-30T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2014-12-28T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T14:54:36","slug":"resolutions-and-accountability-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8507","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions and Accountability Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year has blown straight on by. Does anyone else feel like they’re careening toward the grave? Just me? I’ll call my doctor.<\/p>\n

Last year, I made some resolutions<\/a>. Let’s see if I kept them:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0<\/strong>I did knit the 4th Doctor’s scarf.\u00a0<\/strong>It took me eight months, but I managed to finish the scarf in the car on the way to Authors After Dark in Charlotte. It turned out fantastic:<\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0I spent more time doing fun stuff.\u00a0<\/strong>In addition to knitting, I actually slowed down to read non-work related books, play World of Warcraft, spend way too much time on Tumblr, and, most excitingly (is that a word?) for me, I started learning how to draw. Here are some of my favorite pictures this year:<\/p>\n

\"beautiful<\/a> \"oh<\/a> \"Weed<\/a> \"copic<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0I stopped worrying about whether or not my house was spotlessly clean.\u00a0<\/strong>I kind of fudged a little on this one by hiring a cleaning lady once a week, but I’m not kicking myself over the clutter and the utter nightmare of ripped up dog toys on the floor as much as I was before.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Wear a bikini.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So, there you have it. I, Jenny Trout, achieved my New Year’s resolutions.<\/p>\n

Now, with 2015 upon us, I have a whole new set of resolutions.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Write another goddamn vampire novel.<\/strong>\u00a0For personal reasons, I don’t do much talking about about my pre-Jenny Trout work, but my career started with a series of vampire novels. My plate is pretty full with two series right now (and the addition of a third barreling down on me), but I desperately want to write some vampire YA. Mostly because if there’s a genre that’s losing steam, I want to be sure to jump on the tail end of it and make absolutely no money. But what I lack in business sense, I make up for in passion and dedication, and right now my heart is telling me that I want to return to some vampires. By the end of 2015, I want to either have completed, or actively begun work on, a YA vampire novel.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Run the Mackinac 8 Mile<\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0I got lazy and stopped doing something that made me happy. I’m going to start again, and I want to celebrate my return to running in 2015 by racing around the beautiful shores of Mackinac Island.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Draw a tattoo for myself.\u00a0<\/strong>This year, I’ve gotten tattoos that other people have drawn. I’d like to get a tattoo that\u00a0I<\/em> drew. I don’t know what it will be of, or even if I have the skill to pull it off, but I’m going to keep practicing until I get it right.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Legally change my name to Jenny Trout.\u00a0<\/strong>Do you have any idea how liberating it’s going to be to go from eighteen letters to ten letters? My name will finally fit on forms. I might even change my middle name, too. If anybody has any good ideas, let me know. Maybe we’ll have a vote on it or some shit.<\/p>\n

I’m only making three this year, because I have a busy schedule with three books to complete and tons of travel in 2015, but let’s see how it goes!<\/p>\n

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