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A quiet walk on New Year’s eve

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Every New Year’s eve seems like the brink of something momentous. As though we are suddenly standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon looking into a vast uncharted space where anything can happen. A second chance at things left behind in the old year. A significant mark on the graph of life.

I’ve celebrated this significant moment in many spectacular ways in years past commemorating  the glory that such a transition is in a way that matched the perceived momentousness of the event.

I’ve spent it on a revolving dance floor in front of the fog machine in Ybor City in Florida. I’ve watched glorious fireworks lighting up the night sky amongst hundreds of people in Las Vegas and Boston. I’ve brought back shiny stars and conical paper caps after parties in Calcutta.

And yet, this year was about a quiet walk by myself along the river towards a train station and a town square near the place I live. All urban, concrete, full of shadows, strangely quiet because of the cold at night.
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New Year’s Resolutions 2013: Guide for Writers

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Some of us want to write more, and more, and more in 2013. Others would write less, but well. Some of us would like to become famous writers. Yet others would like to hit that jackpot deal with publishers. Many of us would like to win that literary prize or at least see our names in print in that journal that never publishes anyone. Others would just like to go viral no matter what the subject matter.

All good.

English: New Year's Day postcard mailed in 190...
English: New Year’s Day postcard mailed in 1909. It reads: “A New Year’s Resolution / Jan. 1st / Good Resolution / Each resolution that I make / My conscience surely troubles / Because I find they always break / As easy as Soap bubbles” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

But when we think through the parts of the big plan, what New Year’s resolutions might be useful?
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Make Bottledworder better in 2013

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It’s that time of year again. Kids laughing and people rejoicing and men and women trampling each other to get to the sales  at the malls.

Bottledworder wishes Bottledworder could put up the following scrap of paper on the blog:
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But wait! Bottledworder is already a zero. We’re all zeros here, propping each other up like brightly coloured balls in ball pits, all bouncy but without a hope of looking attractive without others.

So no. Bottledworder is not on sale.

It’s the new year again. It’s the time of reckoning. Bottledworder needs to reckon.

Bottledworder needs some pats on the back and some constructive criticism so Bottledworder can wallow in self-pity with the critical stuff during the holidays punctuated by a few moments of good feeling about the blog for the upcoming new year.

So ,

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What you need to do:

Bottledworder will be very happy if some of you would write a short post about Bottledworder on your own blog with a link to “Bottledworder” touching upon why you like to come to this blog and what you’d like to see here next year.

Basically, what do you like here and what would you like to see more of?

In return, I’ll reblog the best post here in the new year (on Jan 5th) and I’ll preface it with a writeup about your blog and why I liked your post.

I’ll also keep posting readers’ posts about my posts under the Reader Responses section through 2013.

I’ve been getting some excellent multi-paragraph comments to some of my blog posts and I thought this could be  a good way to make your responses a bit more permanent and visible here.

Thank you for your support!

Bottledworder.