I’m checking in a bit late here. I try to make resolutions of various ranges, which can be done in a month to a year, and some might seem odd or incongruous.
Also, anyone who subscribed to this, voluntarily or involuntarily–well, here’s a poke to ask how things have started or get things started if the first weeks of 2023 were slow.
One goal relevant to this forum is where people reminded me of a site I forgot existed: the Solutions Archive at https://solutionarchive.com/. I didn’t have it on January 1, but I do now.
My goal is to hit 150 points and achieve the rank of “Dungeon Master” both for my own vanity (I’ll probably submit information for my own games) and so maybe I can help other people stuck on a specific puzzle in a good game they want to see to the end. This means a walkthrough and map roughly every 5 days.
Another one is to hit 3rd in Frequent Fiction Points at IFDB. I have backlogged IFComp 2022 reviews and fount a raft of fun new games worth sharing. The goal is the end of the month. I’m trying to touch up one IFComp review per day and add one new review. It took me a while, but I got to #4, and Verityvirtue at #3 got there while (I believe) in medical school, which is all kinds of impressive re: time management!
I’m very close to one outside goal–hit 10 million points on Chessable and achieve the “hero” title. (I was at 8 million to start 2023.) My other goal is to hit 100 million and get the “Legend” title. There’s a way to do that if I buy a pro account for a few months.
I’d also like to try NaNoWriMo for real, and I have some projects lined up for the various comps. We’ll see how it goes. I like to be flexible as sometimes I say “Oh, this would’ve been a good new year’s resolution” in, say, April, and then I go and do it in a month. And it feels good.
One thing I want to do less of is write in my weekly files. I’d rather convert them to actual writing. My microphone and Windows speech to text let me hit a new high in daily file text size, which was a 2022 resolution, but that’s a pace I don’t want to keep up, because chasing numbers for their own sake is counterproductive.