You can go on the all famous McDonalds only diet.

That doesn't work for me.

...what?

I'm serious.

Well, I have a job.   I just want a different one that might have some sort of career path.   ;

I think I might take your diet goal as well zubaz.

Novel writing doesn't have to take hours of your free time.  But if you want to start cranking out pages, you need to do some each day or it once again becomes a 'One day....' item on a list somewhere.  That's not to say you can't stop and start, but actually putting the words onto the page requires you to be sitting at the keyboard.  I generally find that there's only so much stuff that can fit in my mental horizon and then I need to start writing or at least making notes in the outline.

One of the key steps in my writing process has been to learn how to use master documents.  I still can't get the thing to open up on the second monitor, much to my disappointment, but after it's loaded and positioned, it makes navigating and editing the chapters that I'm working on much easier (because the linked documents open on the main monitor).

Doh!

I just don't make new years resolutions because I never keep them. But kudos to anyone who does.

I think the idea behind resolutions are good. some people are lazy and don't set goals for themselves, but they are a sad lot.

Everybody has set a few goals that are two high at some point.  I know I've done that, but its an important life lesson that everybody must go through at least once.

I usually don't have a stated time when I place my resolutions (like I reflect and make goals on a regular basis throughout the year), but the new year is a good time to reflect on life to see what can be changed for the better.  many people are too busy to really stop and think about that kind of thing, so the new year resolution is great for reminding people in mass.  kudos to who do it.