GAME PLAN: 2010

CHECK IT: I am about to plan/research/strategize the heck out of 2010.

The gloves are on, the crowd's electric, and I am seconds away from the bell sounding for the first round.

IT IS ON, 2010.

I know my tendency to make lists borders on the obsessive, but I feel a distinct difference with this one -- I can feel that fire of motivation. It's buzzing through me and singeing my nerves. I am going to make plans and I am going to make them happen.

I am all ego this evening.

So, the initial list:

Writing

• Launch into the first poetry collection; Flesh out those ideas, lady.
• Tuck into the first novel idea.
• SUBMIT pieces to literary journals, magazines, blogs.
• Explore those writing markets (start with Canada and branch out to the U.S. and U.K.)
• Get out there and volunteer for literary events across the city.
• Check out those writing contests, if low entry fees will permit.
• Nightwood submission? Might be cool, might want to get in on that and tag team the theatre scene with Ship Sharp.

Travel

• Research the ever-loving life out of the places you're keen on visiting (U.K., France, Germany, Russia, etc.)
• Figure out rough budgets and such... yeah, I suppose funding might be important.

School

• Research that Masters in Creative Writing (Canadian, American, and English schools)
• Try and contact old profs to make sure they remember you, crazy girl.
• Financial aids like scholarships would be good, too.
• Look into Ryerson's copy editing program (since you've now got another year and a half stretched out in front of you)
• Maybe look into language courses for kicks...? French or Japanese would be neat.

I feel all fired up and dominant and like I am going to take no prisoners, even if they ask me politely not to. I wonder if this is the post-gym endorphins kicking in right about now.

Watch out, 2010 -- Miz Moffatt is claiming you as her own.